Gary O. Ravert is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s New York office.
Gary’s practice is focused on creditors’ and debtors’ rights, corporate reorganizations, bankruptcy proceedings and commercial transactions.
Following law school, Gary clerked for the Honorable Stuart M. Bernstein, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.
Gary is licensed to practice law in New York, and is admitted to the federal District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
Representative Experience
Some of his recent matters include the following:
- Counsel to the purchaser in an $82.5 million acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a North American provider of professional portrait photography products and services and all of its foreign and domestic subsidiaries
- Representation of one of the largest chains of dialysis centers in the United States in connection with recovery on a distressed asset
- Representation of a large manufacturer of aerospace, satellite, and automation and control products in connection with chapter 11 proceedings
- Representation of a distressed debt hedge fund in connection with chapter 11 proceedings
- Counsel to a large New York-based hospital and healthcare organization in its chapter 11 proceedings
- Counsel to the trustee of a liquidating trust
- Co-counsel to a large dairy producer in its chapter 11 proceedings
- Representation of a large telecommunications company in numerous corporate and litigation matters
- Defense of a large and well known restaurant chain in bankruptcy litigation
- Representation of the successful bidders in two recent 363 sale transactions
- Representation of defendants in numerous adversary proceedings
Some of his previous matters include representation of the following:
- A large welding manufacturer in its chapter 11 proceedings
- A large and well-known clothing manufacturer in its chapter 11 proceeding
- The largest creditor in a recent chapter 11 proceeding of a Latin American satellite television company
- Creditors in the Kmart, Hayes-Lemmerz, and Cambridge Holdings bankruptcies
- The syndicated lenders in the chapter 11 proceedings of AMF Bowing
- A major airline and a large non-profit long-term care provider in out-of-court restructurings
Publications, Membership and Recognition
Gary has co-authored numerous articles, including “California Court Clarifies Directors’ Duties When a Corporation Is Insolvent or in the Zone of Insolvency,” McDermott’s Inside M&A newsletter, January/February 2010; “Reinterpreting Section 553's Mutuality Requirement,” Law 360, January 2009; “Maximizing Creditor Remedies in an Antitrust World” LexisNexis Antitrust Report, July 2008; “Enron Case Provides Lesson On Distressed Claims,” Law 360, October 2007; “A Vendor's Guide to Bankruptcy,” Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal Summer 2006, Vol. 1:494. Gary has also co-authored numerous McDermott newsletters.
Gary is a member of the Bankruptcy Law360 Editorial Advisory Board, the Brooklyn Law School Zaretsky Bankruptcy & Commercial Law Center Steering Committee and a board member of the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association. Gary was also named 2008 and 2009 Empire State Counsel by the New York State Bar Association for his contributions to pro bono clients.
He is also a member of the following Bar Associations: New York State Bar Association and The Association of the Bar for the City of New York.
Education
- Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 2000
- Hunter College, City University of New York, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1990
