David Feldman is a partner in the Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department and is the co-head of the Distressed and Special Situations Lending Group. Mr. Feldman’s practice focuses on the representation of distressed investors, lenders, bondholders and creditor committees in a variety of bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed asset and debt transactions. A brief description of Mr. Feldman’s practice areas is set forth below.

Committees and Bank Groups. Mr. Feldman has 15 years of experience representing creditor committees, bondholders, bank groups and equity committees in some of the largest and most complicated chapter 11 cases. Currently, Mr. Feldman represents the agent for the bank group in M. Fabrikant & Sons (SDNY) and certain senior subordinated debt holders of C-Bass LLC. Most recently, Mr. Feldman represented the agent for the First Lien Lenders of Performance Transportation Services/Leaseway (WDNY) and the Official Equity Committee of Footstar, Inc. (SDNY), a national shoe supplier to mass market retailers, including Kmart. Over the past several years Mr. Feldman has represented the following creditors: Pennsylvania Fashions, Inc. (pre-petition and DIP lenders); Newcor, Inc. (pre-petition bondholders and post-petition creditors’ committee); Questron Technology, Inc. (pre-petition bondholders and post-petition creditors’ committee); Big V Supermarkets (creditors’ committee); Glenoit Corporation (prepetition and DIP lenders); American Architectural Products (creditors’ committee); Sharp International, Inc. (debtor); Recycling Industries, Inc. (pre-petition bondholders and post-petition creditors’ committee); Auto Parts Exchange (bank group); SLM International, Inc. (creditors’ committee); and Olympia & York creditors’ committee).

Distressed and Special Situations Lending. Mr. Feldman and his Distressed and Special Situations Lending subgroup regularly represent financial institutions and hedge funds as lenders in connection with cutting edge loan transactions, including DIP loans, chapter 11 exit facilities, second lien loans, mezzanine loans, bridge loans, acquisition facilities and other transactions.

Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions. Mr. Feldman often represents sophisticated hedge funds in connection with their acquisitions of companies in and out of bankruptcy. For example, Mr. Feldman represented the acquirers of General Chemical Inc., a U.S. and Canadian chemical manufacturer (Bankr. D.N.J 2004) and Golden Northwest Aluminum, a Northwest Aluminum manufacturer (Bankr. D.Or. 2005). Each of these transactions involved new debt and equity components. In addition, Mr. Feldman recently represented the strategic buyer of Happy Kids Inc., a children’s clothing manufacturer.

Mr. Feldman was named by the Investment Dealers Digest as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Dealmakers of 2007. He is the author of “Appointing Equity Committees: Insolvency Is One of Several Factors Courts Consider in Making Determination,” New York Law Journal, Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy Special Section, August 8, 2004.

J.D., cum laude, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1993
A.B., Cornell University, 1989

Chief Judge William H. Gindin, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, 1994 - 1995

New York, 1994
New Jersey, 1993

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1996
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1995
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1993

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