Michael Price

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Price’s practice includes representation of companies, creditors, and other stakeholders in a wide variety of refinancing, recapitalization, and in and out-of-court restructuring matters. He has experience representing debtors, ad hoc committees, official committees of unsecured creditors, financial institutions, equity sponsors, and other parties in interest in chapter 11 restructurings, as well as companies, creditors and other institutions in liability management exercises and multi-jurisdictional restructurings. Mr. Price has experience across a multitude of industries, including retail and hospitality, healthcare, real estate, gaming, oil and gas, grocery and food services, chemicals, shipping, power and energy, financial services, aviation, and technology and manufacturing.

His representations include the following, among others:

• Steward Healthcare (ad hoc group of secured lenders)
• Office Properties Income Trust (ad hoc noteholders)
• Hearthside Foods (equity sponsor)
• Envision Healthcare Corp./AmSurg (ad hoc group of AmSurg secured lenders)
• WeWork, Inc. (prepetition, DIP and exit L/C lenders)
• 99 Cents Only Stores, Inc. (chapter 11 debtor)
• Rodan + Fields (secured lenders)
• U.S. Renal (secured lenders)
• Heritage Power (ad hoc secured lenders)
• Stored Solar Enterprises; Series LLC (prepetition secured and DIP lender)
• Constellation Oil Services Holding S.A. (ad hoc unsecured noteholders)
• Lightstone Generation (ad hoc first lien lenders)
• Guitar Center, Inc. (chapter 11 debtor)
• Frontier Communications Corp. (ad hoc unsecured noteholders)
• AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (ad hoc unsecured noteholders)
• Gemstone Solutions Group, Inc. f/k/a Gymboree Group, Inc. (chapter 11 debtor)
• Jones Energy, Inc. (ad hoc first lien holders)
• Waypoint Leasing Holdings Ltd. (steering committee of first lien and DIP lenders)
• Mossi & Ghisolfi USA Corporation (official committee of unsecured creditors)
• Global A&T Electronics (ad hoc first lien holders)
• Gymboree Corporation (first lien agent)
• Linn Energy, LLC (ad hoc unsecured noteholders)
• Chaparral Energy, Inc. (ad hoc unsecured noteholders)
• PT Berlian Laju Tanker / Chembulk Tankers (ad hoc secured lenders)
• American Seafoods Group (ad hoc unsecured noteholders)
• Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (agent for secured lenders)
• Eastman Kodak Company (official committee of unsecured creditors)
• Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (official committee of unsecured creditors)

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Price was identified in 2024 by Petition as one of a select group of “rising stars” of restructuring and was included on Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under list of the nation’s most notable up and coming attorneys in 2023 and 2024. Mr. Price was selected by Turnarounds & Workouts as an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” in 2021.

Mr. Price is the co-author of the Lexis Practice Advisor guide on out-of-court restructurings and a co-author of a chapter on second lien loans in The Handbook of Loan Syndications & Trading.

Mr. Price received his BA with distinctive honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and attended The George Washington University Law School, where he graduated cum laude and was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar. He also served as a member of the George Washington International Law Review and represented the George Washington Moot Court Board in national competition.