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EMANUEL C. GRILLO<br />
PARTNER<br />
New York City | 212.813.8880<br />
egrillo@goodwinprocter.com<br />
AREAS OF PRACTICE<br />
Manny Grillo is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Department and chairs its Financial Restructuring Practice. He is also a<br />
member of its Leveraged Finance Practice and co-leader of its Municipal Bankruptcy Group. Mr. Grillo represents secured and<br />
unsecured creditors, Chapter 11 debtors and borrowers, as well as both sellers and purchasers in distressed mergers and<br />
acquisitions. His practice encompasses both out-of-court debt restructurings and the rehabilitation and liquidation of financially<br />
distressed businesses under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Grillo regularly advises banks, hedge funds, sponsors<br />
and other financial institutions regarding insolvency and restructuring matters in complex financings and securitizations. He<br />
negotiates distressed financing transactions including debtor in possession loans on behalf of both lenders and borrowers and<br />
litigates contested confirmation and financing matters as well as avoidance actions and lender liability claims. Mr. Grillo is a<br />
member of the firm’s Opinion Committee and has been a member of its Associate Review Committee and its Committee on<br />
Racial and Ethnic Diversity.<br />
WORK FOR CLIENTS<br />
Mr. Grillo has represented creditors, debtors and borrowers across a variety of industries. In the financial services industry, he<br />
represented a troubled cooperative bank in the restructuring of over $500 million of its debt; an investment fund holding debt<br />
secured by life settlement assets in a troubled hedge fund’s chapter 11 cases; and an ad-hoc committee of second lien<br />
creditors in the restructuring of over $500 million of secured debt of one of the largest independent futures brokerage and<br />
clearing firms. He has represented lenders and borrowers in the real estate industry including the successful bidder in a<br />
section 363 sale for one of the nation’s largest real estate brokerage firms; the controlling mezzanine lender in its successful<br />
foreclosure on a portfolio of hospitality assets with a value in excess $1.5 billion; the sponsor of a portfolio of hospitality assets<br />
concentrated in the southeastern United States in the successful restructuring of $600 million of debt; mezzanine and<br />
mortgage lenders for both commercial and multifamily residential properties and lenders to Native American gaming<br />
facilities. He has represented junior capital lenders to troubled borrowers in prepackaged bankruptcy cases and periodically in<br />
their exercise of remedies. In addition, he has represented individual creditors and ad hoc groups of creditors in some of the<br />
country’s largest bankruptcy cases, including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Northwest Airlines, Delphi Corporation and<br />
Silicon Graphics, Inc. He negotiated the unique DIP loan equity kicker in the NextWave Telecom cases that provided the DIP<br />
lender with a premium payable in reorganized NextWave securities at confirmation after NextWave’s litigation with the FCC in<br />
the United States Supreme Court.<br />
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES<br />
Mr. Grillo is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association.