Paul V. Shalhoub Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8764 F 212-728-9764

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Paul V. Shalhoub is a partner in the Business Reorganization and Restructuring Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Shalhoub specializes in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, acquisitions of distressed companies, debtor in possession financing and related matters

Mr. Shalhoub regularly represents debtors in large, complex chapter 11 cases and out of court restructurings. Representations in this area have included RathGibson, Inc., LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc., Greatwide Logistics Services, Inc., Adelphia Communications Corporation, Petroleum GEO Services ASA, CoreComm New York, Inc., The Multicare Companies, Inc., Railworks Corporation, Paragon Trade Brands, Inc., USinternetworking, Inc., and Petrie Retail, Inc.

Mr. Shalhoub also regularly represents hedge funds and other private equity clients in their capacities as investors, lenders and creditors of distressed entities. Clients in this area have included Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., Silver Point Capital, Black Diamond Capital Management, Caspian Capital, Leonard Green & Partners, TPG and Aquiline Capital. He also represents creditors and other stakeholders, investors, acquirers, lenders and financial advisors in both chapter 11 cases and nonjudicial matters, including Credit Suisse, Colony Capital, Moelis, and Warburg and other firm clients.

Chambers USA (2011) recognizes Mr. Shalhoub as a leading Bankruptcy and Restructuring Law practitioner in New York.

Mr. Shalhoub has lectured on bankruptcy related matters for various seminars and panels sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and other professional organizations. Mr. Shalhoub also is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and the International Federation of Insolvency Professionals.

Mr. Shalhoub has been instrumental on behalf of debtor clients in numerous complex judicial and nonjudicial restructuring matters, including:

• Adelphia Communications Corporation
  
  
• ATX Communications
  
  
• Greatwide Logistics Services
  
  
• Hechingers Holding
  
  
• Heilig-Meyers Company
  
  
• LandAmerica Financial Group
  
  
• National Energy & Gas Transmission
  
  
• Paragon Trade Brands
  
  
• Petrie Retail, Inc. and G&G Shops
  
  
• Petroleum GEO Services ASA
  
  
• Railworks Corporation
  
  
• RathGibson, Inc.
  
  
• The Multicare Companies, Inc.
  
  
• USinternetworking, Inc.
  
  
• Woodward & Lothrop

Mr. Shalhoub has also represented lenders, creditors, investors and acquirers in connection with various distressed company transactions. Representative engagements of this type include:

• Brookfield Asset Management, in its role as lead cornerstone investor and plan sponsor in the General Growth Properties chapter 11 cases
  
  
• Black Diamond Capital Management and Black Diamond Commercial Finance, in their capacity as prepetition and postpetition lender and administrative agent in the Performance Transportation Services chapter 11 cases
  
  
• Black Diamond Capital Management and other lenders, in their role as credit bidder in the Propex chapter 11 cases
  
  
• Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands, in its role as administrative agent to the prepetition and postpetition secured lenders, and as the credit bid purchaser, in the Champion Home Builders chapter 11 case
  
  
• National Dairy Holdings, as stalking horse purchaser in the Parmalat USA Corp. chapter 11 case
  
  
• Silver Point Capital, as the largest secured and unsecured creditor in the Muzak Holdings chapter 11 case
  
  
• Silver Point Capital, as the largest creditor in the Proliance International chapter 11 case
  
  
• TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners in their announced acquisition of a controlling stake of the Palms Casino Resort in exchange for the contribution of their affiliates’ approximately $440M in secured debt of the Las Vegas property
  
  
• Ad hoc committee of senior lenders, led by Twin Haven Capital Partners and Credit Suisse, in the proposed restructuring of Buffets
  
  
• The largest secured lender in the Intermet Corporation chapter 11 case
  
  
• The secured lenders in a national timeshare ownership company
  
  
• The secured lenders in a national restaurant chain