Hahn, Richard F.

RICHARD F. HAHN became a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton in 1991 and is a member of the firm's restructuring and bankruptcy group. Mr. Hahn has represented both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and workouts. In addition, Mr. Hahn has been active in restructuring work outside of the United States. Mr. Hahn is the co-author of several pieces on bankruptcy law prepared for Practising Law Institute seminars. Mr. Hahn holds both a B.A. (1978) and an M.A. (1980) from Harvard University and a J.D. (1983) from Columbia University. Mr. Hahn was Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Bar Association.

Wiles, Michael E.

MICHAEL E. WILES became a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton in 1987. He is a member of the firm's litigation department and regularly represents debtors and other major participants in contested bankruptcy proceedings. He received a B.A. (1975) summa cum laude from Georgetown University, where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. (1978) from Yale Law School, where he was a director of the Barristers Union and Moot Court programs. Mr. Wiles is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association.

Resnick, Alan N.

ALAN N. RESNICK is the Benjamin Weintraub Distinguished Professor of Bankruptcy Law at Hofstra University School of Law, in Hempstead, New York. Professor Resnick, who has taught for more than 25 years, is a nationally recognized authority on bankruptcy law.

Together with Henry J. Sommer, Professor Resnick serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition Revised and the Collier product line.

Professor Resnick is also Of Counsel to the firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York City, where he regularly consults on bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring matters.

Professor Resnick was appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to serve as Reporter to the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, a position he held from 1987 to 1999. He was a member of the Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2005. Professor Resnick also testified before congressional and National Bankruptcy Review Commission committees on various issues relating to bankruptcy legislation.

Professor Resnick's writings have been cited in more than 150 judicial opinions, including opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the author of Bankruptcy Law Manual (5th ed. West) and was co-editor of Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978: A Legislative History (Wm. Hein). He has written numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law, including articles that have appeared in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Banking Law Journal, Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Rutgers Law Review and William & Mary Law Review. He also is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and educational programs. He has lectured at Federal Judicial Center seminars for bankruptcy judges, at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and at various bar association programs. Professor Resnick has been on the faculty of the annual New York University Workshop on Bankruptcy & Business Reorganization and the faculty of the Uniform Commercial Code Institute in Washington, D.C.

Professor Resnick is an elected member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also an elected Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and from 1999 to 2005 served as that organization's Scholar-in-Residence. He received his legal education at Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.).

Gross, Steven R.

STEVEN R. GROSS has been a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton since 1981, and currently heads the firm's restructuring and bankruptcy group. Mr. Gross is highly regarded for his representation of creditors, debtors and third-party bidders in major debt restructurings, particularly prepackaged bankruptcies. Mr. Gross is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy-related issues, and is the co-author of ¿Real Property Foreclosure as a Fraudulent Conveyance: Proposals for Solving the Durrett Problem,¿ Business Lawyer, ¿A New Twist on Twist Cap: Invalidating a Preferential Letter of Credit in In re Air Conditioning,¿ Banking Law Journal and ¿Corporate Governance in Out-of-Court Restructurings,¿ The Bankruptcy Battleground, and has chaired the Practising Law Institute seminar ¿Investing in the Troubled Company.¿ Mr. Gross is a member of the American Bar Association and The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He holds a B.A. (1968) and an M.A. (1969) from Columbia University, an LL.B. (1971) from Cambridge and a J.D. (1973) from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Sommer, Henry J.

HENRY J. SOMMER is a leading authority on consumer bankruptcy law and has litigated many major cases involving bankruptcy, consumer law, civil rights and other issues. He is the Supervising Attorney at the pro bono Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia and formerly served as the head of the Consumer Law Project at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Mr. Sommer has also served as a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Together with Alan N. Resnick, Mr. Sommer serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition Revised and the Collier product line.

Mr. Sommer is the author of Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide (Matthew Bender), Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Nat'l Consumer Law Center), Consumer Bankruptcy (Wiley) and numerous articles on bankruptcy law. He is co-author of Collier Family Law and the Bankruptcy Code (Matthew Bender), Editor of Collier Bankruptcy Manual (Matthew Bender 3d ed. rev.) and a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law (Matthew Bender).

From 1991 to 1998, Mr. Sommer was a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He has testified on many occasions before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as well as the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, on bankruptcy and consumer law issues and has appeared as a bankruptcy expert on national and local television and radio shows. He has served on the faculty of numerous continuing legal education programs, including those presented by the Federal Judicial Center, NYU Law School, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, the Executive Office of U.S. Trustees, ALI-ABA, the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and the ABA Family Law Section.

Mr. Sommer is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference, for which he served as Reporter for the Bankruptcy Code Review Project's Working Group on Individual Debtors. In addition, he is an elected Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He currently serves as the President of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and Vice President of the Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education. He is the former Chair of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board Consumer Advisory Council.

Mr. Sommer was the first recipient of the National Consumer Law Center's Vern Countryman Consumer Law Award. He received his legal education from Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude).