About Michael
Michael assists clients with commercial bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and creditors' rights issues, and has significant experience in complex Chapter 11 cases. Michael represents financially distressed companies as well as lenders, landlords, trade creditors, trustees and creditors' committees in bankruptcy, insolvency and loan workout matters.
Michael has assisted and advised clients in connection with general reorganization matters, workouts, use of cash collateral, efforts to convert or dismiss cases, preferential and fraudulent transfer litigation, automatic stay issues, bankruptcy sales and acquisitions, lease assumption or rejection, claim objections, plan confirmation issues and other aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring efforts. Additionally, Michael also serves as the Columbia office’s student hiring partner.
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Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Bankruptcy, Columbia, SC (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Bankruptcy, Columbia, SC (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Bankruptcy, Columbia, SC (2022)
- Lawyer of the Year: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Columbia, SC (2019)
- Recognized: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Recognized: Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Special Focus: COVID-19
- Best Lawyers in America, "Lawyer of the Year," Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Columbia, SC (2019)
- Best Lawyers in America (2015-2020)
- United Way of the Midlands' Alyce Kemp DeWitt Award, Honoree (2017)
- The State's "20 Under 40" (2017)
- Columbia Business Monthly, Legal Elite of the Midlands (2015-2016, 2018-2019)
- South Carolina Super Lawyers, Bankruptcy: Business (2017-2018)
- South Carolina Super Lawyers, "Rising Star," Bankruptcy: Business (2014-2017)
- ABA Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal, University of South Carolina School of Law, Editor in Chief
- Order of the Coif, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Order of the Wig and Robe, University of South Carolina School of Law
