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Peter Pantaleo is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and the head of the Firm’s Bankruptcy practice. He has been exclusively involved in major workouts and reorganizations representing bank groups, official creditors’ committees composed of institutional and trade creditors, insurance companies, hedge funds and private equity groups. Mr. Pantaleo has been actively involved in all areas of the practice – court proceedings, drafting, negotiating, counseling, chairing meetings, writing and lecturing. Mr. Pantaleo’s experience also includes an extensive out-of-court workout and restructuring practice for financial institutions involving many industries, including healthcare, energy, steel, retail, real estate, textile, telecom, automotive and entertainment.
Mr. Pantaleo has been significantly involved in many of the major corporate Chapter 11 reorganizations during the past ten years including: Lomas Financial (counsel to the creditors' committee representing approximately $2 billion of claims); Federated Department (counsel to provider of $1 billion in DIP financing); LTV (represented the 22-member bank group with claims exceeding $800 million); El Paso Electric (agent for secured bank group); Mariner Health Group (agent for secured bank group); Bradlees (Court appointed plan mediator); Primary Health Systems (agent for secured bank group); Systems Control, Inc. (represented group of bank and insurance company lenders); HSSI (represented successful purchaser of national men's retail clothier); The Loewen Group (counsel to bank steering committee); Dade Behring, Inc (agent for secured bank group); Burlington Industries (agent for secured bank group); Kmart Corp (agent for unsecured bank group); Sunbeam Corp (agent for secured bank group); Galey & Lord (agent for secured bank group); Adelphia Communications (agent for secured bank group); NRG Energy (counsel to steering committee of agent banks); Aurora Foods (agent for secured bank group); Acterna Inc. (agent for secured bank group); RCN Corp (agent for secured bank group); New World Pasta (counsel to the equity sponsor); Collins & Aikman (Counsel to DIP Agents); Calpine Corp (Counsel to DIP Agents); Sirva Inc (agent for secured bank group); Smurfit Stone (agent for secured bank group).
Mr. Pantaleo is a frequent author and lecturer. He is co-author of the leading bankruptcy valuation article “Reorganization Value”, 51 Bus. Law 2 (1996), cited extensively in Collier’s, and the lead author of “Rethinking the Role of Recourse in the Sale of Financial Assets”, 52 Bus. Law 1 (1996). He is a frequent guest lecturer on bankruptcy topics at Duke Law School and the Cornell Business School, and has appeared as a panelist at numerous bankruptcy seminars and conferences, including those sponsored by the NYC Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the National Investment Center, the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.
Mr. Pantaleo has been ranked as one of the leading Bankruptcy lawyers in the United States in a number of recent surveys, including the Chambers Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers (Bankruptcy), The Best Lawyers in America Guide and Practical Law Company's Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook.
Mr. Pantaleo is a Member of the American College of Bankruptcy. He joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 2001. He received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1978 and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1982. He is the former Secretary of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization.
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Former Secretary, Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization |
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New York State Bar Association |
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Member, American College of Bankruptcy (2005) |
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New York University School of Law, 1982 J.D. |
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Columbia University, 1978 B.A. |
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