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Harvey R. Miller, Renowned Bankruptcy Lawyer, Dies at 82
Apr 27, 2015 | The New York Times - Dealbook
By Michael J. de la Merced
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Harvey Miller, Bankruptcy Law Pioneer, Dies
Apr 27, 2015 | The Wall Street Journal
By Matt Jarzemsky and Mike Spector
Harvey R. Miller, who was widely credited with developing the modern practice of bankruptcy law while giving legal counsel to Texaco Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., General Motors Co. and other firms at the center of the U.S.’s largest-ever corporate failures, died Monday. He was 82. -
Harvey Miller, Lehman Lawyer in Bankruptcy Case, Dies at 82
Apr 27, 2015 | Bloomberg
By Stephen Miller
Harvey R. Miller, a partner in the New York-based law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP who helped create bankruptcy as a practice specialty and represented Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in the biggest collapse in U.S. history, has died. He was 82 -
America’s Foremost Bankruptcy Lawyer Dies
Apr 28, 2015 | Financial Times
By Tom Braithwaite
Harvey Miller, the foremost US bankruptcy lawyer, whose cases included Lehman Brothers, General Motors, WorldCom and Continental Airlines, has died at the age of 82. Miller joined Weil Gotshal & Manges as a partner in 1969 at a time when bankruptcy was not a prominent field for major firms. That changed during Miller’s four decades... -
Weil Gotshal Partner, Titan of the Bankruptcy Bar, Dies
Apr 28, 2015 | New York Law Journal
By Andrew Denney
Harvey Miller, a titan of the bankruptcy bar who represented Lehman Brothers in the largest bankruptcy case in American history, died on Monday morning after a brief battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 82.
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Harvey R. Miller, Renowned Bankruptcy Lawyer, Dies at 82
Apr 27, 2015 | The New York Times - Dealbook
By Michael J. de la Merced
Harvey R. Miller, one of the country’s pre-eminent corporate bankruptcy lawyers, who shepherded clients as diverse as Continental Airlines, Lehman Brothers and General Motors through Chapter 11, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.
...His return came just a year before one of the biggest Chapter 11 cases of his career: overseeing the unwinding of Lehman in the wake of its collapse during the financial crisis.
Not only was Lehman’s filing on Sept. 15, 2008, complex — with $639 billion in assets and operations spanning the world in multiple jurisdictions, to this day the biggest bankruptcy in history — but it also involved a hotly contested sale of the firm’s North American banking operations to Barclays of Britain.Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story
During an eight-hour hearing four days later, Mr. Miller argued that selling the Lehman operations to Barclays was of vital importance. The North American business, he implored the presiding judge, was a “melting ice cube” that would evaporate without a deal, causing “a major shock” to the global financial system.
By 12:41 a.m. the next day, Mr. Miller and his team had prevailed. The sale was approved, drawing applause from the crowd of more than 100 in the courtroom.
What was left of Lehman eventually exited bankruptcy protection in 2012. By that point, Weil had taken home nearly $400 million in legal fees...
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Harvey Miller, Bankruptcy Law Pioneer, Dies
Apr 27, 2015 | The Wall Street Journal
By Matt Jarzemsky and Mike Spector
Harvey R. Miller, who was widely credited with developing the modern practice of bankruptcy law while giving legal counsel to Texaco Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., General Motors Co. and other firms at the center of the U.S.’s largest-ever corporate failures, died Monday. He was 82.
...“For the two years I worked with him, he was the best friend I ever had,” Mr. Kinnear said. “I owe that guy a lot.”
Weil’s bankruptcy practice was fashioned in Mr. Miller’s indefatigable, sometimes combative style. He oversaw the collapse of Lehman in September 2008 and subsequent quick sale of the investment bank’s key assets to Barclays PLC, preserving thousands of jobs during the worst of the financial crisis.
But for Mr. Miller’s “aggressive and creative” work on the quick sale, “I’m not sure what would have happened in Lehman week,” said James Peck, the former bankruptcy judge who oversaw the bank’s case and now co-chairs Morrison & Foerster LLP’s restructuring practice.
Months later, in July 2009, Mr. Miller argued for days in a sweltering courtroom for the Obama administration’s proposed sale of GM’s best assets to a new company owned by the U.S. Treasury, refusing offers from the presiding judge to remove his coat or take a lunch break...
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Harvey Miller, Lehman Lawyer in Bankruptcy Case, Dies at 82
Apr 27, 2015 | Bloomberg
By Stephen Miller
Harvey R. Miller, a partner in the New York-based law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP who helped create bankruptcy as a practice specialty and represented Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in the biggest collapse in U.S. history, has died. He was 82
. ...In a 2007 profile, the New York Times described Miller as “the most prominent bankruptcy lawyer in the nation.” He was best known for representing debtors.
Miller’s top cases both came out of the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression -- the $613 billion collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the $49.5 billion General Motors Corp. bailout by the U.S. government in 2009.
Miller also was involved in the bankruptcies of Texaco Inc., Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Inc. and Eastern Airlines Corp.
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His fees were on the same scale as his cases. In the five years following the 2008 bankruptcy of New York-based Lehman, Miller earned Weil Gotshal almost half a billion dollars, about one quarter of the $2 billion paid by Lehman’s bankrupt estate to advisers and lawyers.
Harvey Robert Miller was born on March 1, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, according to Marquis Who’s Who. He received a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in 1954 and a law degree from Columbia University in New York in 1959...
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America’s Foremost Bankruptcy Lawyer Dies
Apr 28, 2015 | Financial Times
By Tom Braithwaite
Harvey Miller, the foremost US bankruptcy lawyer, whose cases included Lehman Brothers, General Motors, WorldCom and Continental Airlines, has died at the age of 82.
Miller joined Weil Gotshal & Manges as a partner in 1969 at a time when bankruptcy was not a prominent field for major firms. That changed during Miller’s four decades at Weil.
...His career hit new heights every time a famous company sank, with bankruptcies including American Airlines and Texaco, but his biggest case came late in his career, the 2008 failure of Lehman Brothers, whose $691bn of assets made it in the largest US bankruptcy in history.
Days before the September 15 filing, a pivotal moment in the financial crisis, Lehman’s advisers, still believing a bankruptcy was only a remote possibility, thought to call a lawyer just in case. Miller had long been the obvious choice.
The case has since seen Weil and restructuring specialist Alvarez & Marsal take more than $2bn in fees as the court unravelled claims on the complex investment bank. On the fifth anniversary of the collapse Miller criticised regulators’ decision to allow Lehman to fail. “Lehman was a seismic event that ignited a global conflagration,” he said. “The actions during the weekend of September 12-15 were the result of a serious miscalculation.”...
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Weil Gotshal Partner, Titan of the Bankruptcy Bar, Dies
Apr 28, 2015 | New York Law Journal
By Andrew Denney
Harvey Miller, a titan of the bankruptcy bar who represented Lehman Brothers in the largest bankruptcy case in American history, died on Monday morning after a brief battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 82.
...Miller was involved in the landmark bankruptcy cases of the last several decades, including American Airlines, Enron, General Motors, Marvel Entertainment Group, Texaco and WorldCom.
Miller had already established himself as a household name in bankruptcy before 2008 when he began representing Lehman Brothers, which had been the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States, employed more than 26,000 people and had $639 billion in assets before it filed for Chapter 11 protection.
James Peck, who presided over the Lehman bankruptcy as a Southern District bankruptcy judge and who is now senior counsel at Morrison & Foerster, said he met Miller 20 years ago and that the two became closer friends in the aftermath of the Lehman case as they took to the lecture circuit to discuss the case at conferences across the globe, including in Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv.
Peck said that Miller was a "brilliant storyteller" and someone with "endless intellectual curiosity" when it came to developments in the law...
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