Samuel R. Maizel

Samuel R. Maizel is a partner at Dentons US LLP in Los Angeles and leads the firm’s distressed health care industry restructuring efforts nationwide. His practice includes bankruptcy matters as well as financial restructurings, both in and out of court. Mr. Maizel has served as lead counsel to debtors, trustees, buyers of assets, state attorneys generals and creditors’ committees, and has served as a trustee, examiner, patient care ombudsman and consumer privacy ombudsman in chapter 7, 9 and 11 cases. His most recent debtor representations include Curitec, a durable medical equipment supplier that filed in Houston; Borrego Community Health Foundation, a chain of 19 federally qualified health care centers that filed in San Diego; Astria Health, a chain of nonprofit hospitals that filed in Yakima, Wash.; and Verity Health System of California, a chain of six hospitals and the second-largest nonprofit hospital bankruptcy case in U.S. history, which filed in Los Angeles. Mr. Maizel has lectured extensively, is widely published, and has been interviewed on television and radio. He is the only lawyer in the U.S. ranked in both health care and bankruptcy by Chambers and Partners and The Best Lawyers in America. A Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Mr. Maizel was named a “Legal Visionary by the Los Angeles Times in 2023; recognized as one of its “Top 100 Lawyers for 2022” by the Los Angeles Business Journal; awarded the “Outstanding Lawyer Award” for distinguished service as outside counsel to nonprofit organizations by the American Bar Association in 2022; and named by the Daily Journal as one of California’s “Top Healthcare Lawyers” in 2021. In addition, Global M&A Network named him “Restructuring Lawyer of the Year” in 2020. In addition, he has been listed in Super Lawyers every year since 2007. Mr. Maizel received his B.S. in 1977 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his M.A. from Georgetown University in government in 1983 and his J.D. in 1985 from George Washington University School of Law, where he won the Jacob Burns Prize for excellence in appellate advocacy and served as president of the Moot Court Board.