Brian M. Resnick

Partner

brian.resnick@davispolk.com

Mr. Resnick is a partner in Davis Polk’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group. He has substantial experience in a broad range of corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, representing debtors, creditors, banks, hedge funds, asset acquirers and other strategic parties in connection with pre-packaged and traditional bankruptcies, out-of-court workouts, DIP and exit financings, bankruptcy litigation, Section 363 sales and restructurings of monoline insurance companies. Mr. Resnick also advises financial institutions and other clients in structuring complex derivatives and securities transactions, and evaluating credit risks inherent in such transactions.

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New York
450 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
P: 212-450-4213
F: 212-701-5213

Related Practices

Bar Admissions

State of New York
U.S. District Court, E.D. New York
U.S. District Court, S.D. New York

Education

B.M., Percussion Performance, The Juilliard School, 1997
M.M., Percussion Performance, The Juilliard School, 1999
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2003
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Member, Columbia Business Law Review

Work Highlights

Representations

Joint administrators and liquidators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) and its U.K. Lehman affiliates, including in connection with the tens of billions of dollars of claims that such companies have against Lehman’s U.S. entities
Citigroup as administrative agent and lead arranger of $950 million debtor-in-possession financing facility for Eastman Kodak Company
J.P. Morgan as administrative agent under the $4.5 billion debtor-in-possession financing for Delphi Corporation, including in connection with the unprecedented credit bidding of the DIP facility claims in exchange for a substantial portion of Delphi's businesses
Barclays Capital and Silver Point Capital in connection with the backstop of a $355 million equity rights offering to finance Cooper-Standard Automotive's emergence from Chapter 11
Morgan Stanley in connection with the resolution of significant guarantee exposure to Capmark Financial under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit platform, and in connection with the restructuring of a real estate investment
Alliance Tire Group (co-owned by Warburg Pincus) in connection with its acquisition of the U.S. operations of GPX International Tire Corporation pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
Twenty-three financial institution counterparties with credit default swap and financial guarantee exposure to monoline insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc. in connection with a comprehensive restructuring of credit default swap and financial guarantee obligations aggregating over $160 billion
Ford Motor Company in connection with various significant developments with respect to the U.S. auto industry
Federal Reserve Bank of New York with respect to their more than $150 billion in multiple financings for American International Group (AIG)
Bank of America as administrative agent for senior prepetition lenders in the Chapter 11 cases of Refco Inc. and its affiliates ($650 million)
Delta Air Lines and its affiliates as debtors in connection with their Chapter 11 cases
Citigroup as administrative agent for debtor-in-possession lenders ($1.1 billion) and exit lenders ($3.5 billion) in Federal Mogul Corporation
J.P. Morgan as administrative agent for debtor-in-possession lenders in Adelphia Communications ($1.5 billion), and as administrative agent for senior pre-petition lenders in connection with several prepackaged bankruptcy cases (McLeodUSA, Citation Corporation)

Recognition

Profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s Bankruptcy Beat blog on July 26, 2011 (“Bankruptcy Beat Snapshot: Brian Resnick”) and Daily Bankruptcy Review on July 28, 2011
Featured as July 22, 2011, “Mover of the Week” in Daily Bankruptcy Review Small Cap’s article entitled “From Broadway to Bankruptcy, Resnick Thrives in Two Careers”

Of Note

Editorial Board Member, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
Member, Junior Advisory Board of inMotion
Contributing Author, Collier on Bankruptcy

Professional History

Partner, 2011
Associate, 2003-2011

News

Brian Resnick Featured on WSJ.com and in DBR

Davis Polk Elects Six New Partners

Davis Polk Advises Government on Recapitalization of AIG

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Publications

Lehman Bankruptcy Court Holds Contractual Right to Triangular Setoff Unenforceable in Bankruptcy and Not Protected by Safe Harbors
Business Law Currents | Thomson Reuters

Third Circuit Finds DCF Analysis is "Commercially Reasonable Determinant of Value"
On the Edge | ABI Journal Vol. XXX, No. 4, May 2011

Delaware Court 'Champions' Per Se Rule for Constructive Fraudulent Transfers
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal

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Client Publications

The Law of Unintended Consequences: Competing Plans in the Post-BAPCPA World
Insolvency and Restructuring Update

Lehman Bankruptcy Court Holds Contractual Right to Triangular Setoff Unenforceable In Bankruptcy and Not Protected by Safe Harbors
Client Newsletter

Second Washington Mutual Plan Confirmation Denial May Have Significant Impact on Claims Trading and Plan Negotiation
Insolvency and Restructuring Update

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Events

Brian Resnick Speaks at TMA Distressed Investing Conference

Davis Polk Lawyers Present “Credit Bidding: Does Your Vote Count?”

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