Overview
Robert Nussbaum is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Robert focuses on financial restructuring and private credit and special situations matters.
Robert represents secured lenders, bondholders, companies, members of management and other parties-in-interest in all aspects of financial restructurings, including out-of-court workouts and Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Robert also represents institutional banks, private credit and special situation funds, hedge funds and other investment advisers with respect to a variety of leveraged finance transactions.
Prior to joining private practice, Robert clerked for the Honorable Margaret Cangilos-Ruiz, Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of New York. Robert earned his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Binghamton University and his law degree, cum laude, from St. John’s University School of Law, where he served as an editor on the Law Review and as president of the Bankruptcy Law Society.
Accolades
- Rising Star, Super Lawyers
- Healthcare/Life Sciences Deal of the Year ($50 million – $100 million), The M&A Advisor (2023)
Education
- St John’s University School of Law, J.D. (cum laude)
- Binghamton University, B.A. (cum laude)
Representations
- DIP lender and stalking horse purchaser in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Troika Media Group and its affiliates before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Aerotech Miami d/b/a Aero Tech and its affiliates, the largest charter airline in the U.S., in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
- The DIP lenders and stalking horse purchaser in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Delphi Behavioral Health Group and its affiliates before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
- An ad hoc group of first lien lenders in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of AE Europe Holdings, one of the world’s largest car rental wholesale companies.
- A foreign asset-based lender in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Revlon and is affiliated debtors.
- The administrative agent and lender group in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of indebtedness owed by a leading provider of management services for one of the nation’s largest network of urology-affiliated practices.
- The administrative agent and lender group in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of indebtedness owed by a leading provider of substance abuse and addiction and behavioral health treatment services.
- Luminus Energy Partners Master Fund, in its capacity as a last out lender, in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Celadon Group, formerly one of the largest trucking companies in North America.
- An ad hoc group of first lien and second lien term loan lenders, comprised of funds managed by Goldman Sachs, Cerberus Capital Management and Arbour Lane Capital Management, in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of The IMAGINE Group.
- A group of landlords in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Modell's Sporting Goods.
- An ad hoc group of term loan lenders in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of Production Resources Group and certain of its affiliates.
Matters may have been handled prior to joining Paul Hastings.