MICHAEL BURKE’s practice focuses primarily on general corporate restructuring and bankruptcy matters. He represents creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees, debtors, bondholders, distressed investors, indenture trustees, bank groups, lenders and other parties in all aspects of bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, acquisitions and other distressed situations. He has experience in large-scale cross-border restructurings and insolvencies involving the United States, Canada and Australia and has advised clients in distressed situations across industries, including mineral and mines, telecommunications, print media, real estate, gas and oil, shipping, manufacturing, automotive and retail. Michael also has substantial experience in the aviation sector and has represented lenders, lessors, financing parties, aircraft manufacturers and mainline and regional carriers in aviation bankruptcies (involving fixed wing and rotor wing aircraft) and out-of-court workouts. Michael has also worked as U.S. counsel for clients in a number of Australian restructurings, which were effectuated through schemes of arrangement and deeds of company arrangement.
Recent Representative (Public) Engagements
- Pareteum Corporation – Counsel to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors
- Avianca Holdings – Counsel to United Airlines in Avianca Holdings chapter 11 cases
- GE Capital Aviation Services - Counsel to GECAS in Philippine Airlines, Grupo Aeroméxico and LATAM Airlines chapter 11 cases
- Borden Dairy Company – Counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors
- Bristow Group – Counsel to largest aircraft lessor and secured aircraft lender
- Jack Cooper Industries – Counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors
- 1141 Realty Group – Counsel to Loan Trustee in connection with, among other things, make-whole litigation in the Chapter 11 cases of the Company
- First Energy Group – Counsel to Owner Participants in connection with certain leveraged lease transactions for the Bruce Mansfield facility
- CHC Helicopter, Inc. – Counsel to largest aircraft lessor and co-chair of the official committee of unsecured creditors
- Republic Airways, Inc. – Counsel to mainline codeshare partner and co-chair of the official committee of unsecured creditors
- Allied Systems Holdings, Inc.– Counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors
- Powerwave Technologies, Inc. – Counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors
- AMR Corp, Inc. – Counsel to Indenture Trustee for Secured Aircraft Notes
- Ryan International Airlines, Inc. – Counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors
- Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. – Counsel to aircraft financing parties
- Mesa Airlines, Inc. – Counsel to Servicer for Secured Aircraft Securitization and Aircraft Manufacturer