Michele J. Meises is counsel in the Business Finance and Restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She concentrates her practice in the representation of debtors as well as creditors under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Ms. Meises has been actively involved in the firm’s representation of numerous debtors in various industries, including AMR Corporation/American Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Ames Department Stores, Inc., Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Genesis Health Ventures, Inc., and JPS Textile Group, Inc. She has also been actively involved in the firm’s representation of a variety of creditors, including Credit Suisse First Boston, as agent, in the Chapter 11 case of Owens Corning, the Term Loan Holder Committee in the Chapter 11 case of Caldor Corporation, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company in the Chapter 11 case of Dow Corning Corporation, Whippoorwill Associates, Inc. and Stonehill Capital Management LLC in the Chapter 11 case of Portrait Corporation of America Inc., and General Electric Capital Mortgage Services, Inc. in several consumer class actions.
Ms. Meises has authored and co-authored numerous articles on diverse bankruptcy issues, corporate governance, aircraft financing and consumer class actions. She has published in various legal publications, including The Business Lawyer, The Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, The Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, The National Law Journal, The New York Law Journal, The International Financial Law Review, Financier Worldwide, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, and Bankruptcy Court Decisions. She also authored and co-authored numerous chapters on bankruptcy law in various treatises and books, including The Corporate Counsellor’s Deskbook (Aspen Law & Business 1999); Reorganizing Failing Businesses (American Bar Association Section of Business Law 2006), and The Development of Bankruptcy & Reorganization Law in the Courts of the Second Circuit of the United States (Matthew Bender & Co. 1995). Additionally, Ms. Meises served as the editor of The Bankruptcy Bulletin.
Ms. Meises was a member of the Subcommittee to Draft the Local Bankruptcy Rules for the Southern District of New York. She has been the teaching assistant for Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy, taught by Harvey Miller, at Columbia University School of Law since 2000. Currently, Ms. Meises is serving as a Member of the Communications Committee of the Turnaround Management Association New York Chapter.
Ms. Meises graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College, Columbia University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she was articles editor of the Columbia Law Review as well as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.