Perfil
Leo Muchnik is a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig in New York, where he focuses on complex corporate restructurings, workouts, and distressed M&A transactions. He represents a diverse range of clients including debtors, investors, lenders, bondholders, and purchasers across industries such as retail, NAV finance, energy, hospitality, and entertainment. His experience spans both domestic and cross-border matters, including insolvency litigation, enforcement, and ad hoc committee representations.
Concentrations
- Restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy
- Out-of-court restructurings and workouts
- Cross-border restructuring matters
- Debtor representations
- Creditor and ad hoc committee representations
- Distressed M&A
- Insolvency litigation and enforcement
Capacidades
Experiencia
- Building Services. Represented Air Pros Solutions and its subsidiaries — a leading HVAC service provider — in their successful going concern sales to six different purchasers.
- Energy. Represented Inversiones Latin America Power Ltda., a Chilean renewable energy company, in its comprehensive financial restructuring implemented through a prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, pursuant to which equity retained its ownership of the company.
- Aviation. Represented Latin American airline in connection with its restructuring.
- Retail. Represented A.B.C. Carpet & Home in its successful going concern sale to the stalking horse bidder and subsequent confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan.
- Retail. Represented MUJI U.S.A. in its Chapter 11 reorganization during COVID‑19, resulting in a fully consensual Chapter 11 plan pursuant to which equity retained ownership of the company.
- Financial Service Company. Represented financial services company in its out‑of-court negotiations with warehouse lenders and derivative counterparties to achieve consensual forbearances and amendments to address COVID-19 related defaults and liquidity constraints.
- Aviation. Represented major Latin American airline in its exchange of $550 million 8.375% Senior Notes due 2020 for 9.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2023.
- Entertainment. Represented SFX Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries, producers and promoters of live electronic dance music events, in their Chapter 11 Cases.
- Chemical & Materials Manufacturing. Representing prepetition and DIP ABL Agent in the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Ascend Performance Material Holdings Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries, one of the largest, fully integrated producers of nylon.
- Real Estate. Representing secured creditor (an EB-5 Fund) in the Oceanwide Plaza bankruptcy case.
- Medical Device Company. Represented second lien noteholders in an out-of-court exchange and recapitalization of a medical device company.
- Energy. Represented noteholders in their bridge financing to a renewable energy company.
- Food & Beverage. Represented private credit fund in a workout on a NAV facility to a holding company of snacks and beverage businesses.
- Real Estate. Represented private credit fund in workouts on NAV facilities to general partners of various real estate funds.
- Retail. Represented private credit fund in a workout on a loan to a distribution business that had a pull‑forward of consumer demand during COVID-19 when loan was made.
- Retail. Represented prepetition and DIP lender in the Chapter 11 Cases of Christmas Tree Shops and its subsidiaries.
- Retail. Represented prepetition and DIP lender in the Chapter 11 Cases of Francesca’s Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries.
- Hospitality. Represented Hana Financial in its exit financing to fund development of a hotel in TriBeCa.
- Hospitality. Represented ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in connection with the Chapter 11 Case of Lombard Public Facilities Corporation, an Illinois non-profit corporation which owns the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center.
- Retail. Represented purchaser in the Chapter 11 Cases of Francesca’s Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries.
- Hospitality. Represented private equity fund in its acquisition of a hospitality distribution company in a private UCC Article 9 foreclosure sale.
- Aviation. Represented purchaser of eight aircraft in the Chapter 11 Cases of Ravn Air Group, Inc.
- Medical Device Company. Represented purchaser in the Chapter 11 Cases of ActiveCare, Inc.
- Entertainment. Represented Raven Capital Management in its purchase of a 45‑film library from the Open Road bankruptcy estates.
- Ponzi Litigation. Represented foreign governmental agency in defending against a subsequent fraudulent transfer action brought by the Madoff Trustee; resulted in dismissal with prejudice of all claims based on sovereign immunity.
- Chapter 11 Dismissal. Represented mezzanine lender in the successful dismissal of the mezzanine borrower’s bankruptcy that was filed on the eve of a foreclosure sale.
- Fraudulent Transfer. Represented purchaser of a hair salon company in an adversary proceeding over fraudulent transfer claims arising out of its purchase of target company
- Recharacterization Claims. Represented landlord in defense of adversary proceeding of skilled nursing home operators seeking to recharacterize master leases and avoid rent payments as fraudulent transfers.
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Judicial Intern, Honorable Rosemary Gambardella, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey
Reconocimientos y Liderazgo
- Selected, Secured Finance Network, “40 Under 40 Award,” 2025
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2021-2022, 2025
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2017‑2023
- Member, teams working on deals that received the following awards:
- The M&A Advisor’s Turnaround Awards, “Cross-Border Restructuring of the Year ($100MM to $1B)” for the restructuring of Inversiones Latin America Power, 2025
- Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards, “Pre-pack Restructuring Award” for the restructuring of Inversiones Latin America Power, 2024
- The M&A Advisor’s Turnaround Awards, “Restructuring Deal of the Year” for the restructuring of A.B.C. Carpet Co, Inc. and affiliates, 2022
- The M&A Advisor’s Turnaround Awards, “Distressed M&A Deal of the Year ($75MM to $100MM)” for Raven Capital’s acquisition of certain assets of Open Road Films, 2020
- Global M&A Network’s Americas M&A Atlas Awards, “Restructuring Deal of the Year (Mid-Market)” for Raven Capital’s acquisition of certain assets of Open Road Films, 2019
- Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards, “Chapter 11 Restructuring, Mid-Market Segments (100-250)” for the restructuring of Lombard Public Facilities Corporation, 2019
- TMA Chicago/Midwest Awards Program, “Small Transaction of the Year” for the restructuring of the Lombard Public Facilities Corporation, 2018
- Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards, “Entertainment Services Restructuring of the Year” for the Chapter 11 plan of reorganization for SFX Entertainment, 2017
Credenciales
Educación
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J.D., cum laude, Fordham University School of Law
Member, Fordham Law Review
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B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, The College of New Jersey
Phi Beta Kappa
Con licencia para ejercer en
- Nueva York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York