Elisha D. Graff

Elisha D. Graff is a partner in the Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department of Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett LLP in New York and regularly represents clients in connection with out-of-court restructurings and chapter 11 cases. His work has focused primarily on advising financial institutions with their loans to companies and debtors in connection with their chapter 11 cases. Mr. Graff has regularly represented JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and other financial institutions as administrative agent for secured lending syndicates in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings. He is also regularly called upon<br>to assist the firm’s private-equity clients (including First Reserve, Blackstone, KKR, Apax and other sponsor clients) with their portfolio companies that are in distress or in potential need of a restructuring, plan sponsors, and acquirers of distressed companies, as well as financial advisors with retention matters. Mr. Graff represented Apax Partners as equity sponsor and holder of over $1.2 billion of debt in connection with the chapter 11 case of its portfolio company, Cengage Learning. He has also represented Motor Coach Industries International Inc. and its affiliates in connection with their chapter 11 cases, and<br>he has acted as counsel to the lenders in several large chapter 11 cases, including Logan’s Roadhouse<br>Inc., Oriental Trading Co., Station Casinos Inc., Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Idearc Inc., NextMedia<br>Group Inc., Lear Corp., Adelphia Communications Corp., Federal-Mogul Corp., GT Brands, LLC, RCN<br>Corp., Galey &amp; Lord Inc., GenTek Inc. and Recoton Corp. Mr. Graff has regularly acted as counsel to PJT Partners and other financial advisors in connection with retention and compensation matters in the various restructuring and bankruptcy engagements in which the financial advisors are involved. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1997 and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2000.