J. Gregory Milmoe is a corporate lawyer who has played a leadership role in numerous restructurings, acquisitions and financings.  Mr. Milmoe (who co-leads the firm’s Corporate Restructuring Group) brings to his practice wide-ranging corporate experience including with in-court and out-of-court restructurings, hostile and negotiated mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and corporate financings including initial public offerings.  He draws on this experience to help fashion pragmatic, sometimes novel, solutions to complex problems that frequently blend and adapt techniques from various legal disciplines.  For example, Mr. Milmoe represented the consortium which successfully “bailed out” Long Term Capital.

During his career, Mr. Milmoe has led the firm’s representation in numerous significant matters including: Refco, Inc. (debtors), Aurora Foods (debtors), Vlasic Foods (debtors), Exodus Communications (debtors), Genuity Inc. (company), ICG Communications (debtors), Alamosa (company), Revlon Inc. (company), Fairfield Manufacturing (company), Mirant (company), ITC^DeltaCom Inc. (company), Radio Unica (debtors), Viatel Inc. (debtors), e.Spire Communications (debtors), Abraxis Petroleum (creditors), Verizon Wireless in its acquisition of NextWave, McKesson in its acquisition of Foxmeyer Corp., Fortress Investment Group in various acquisitions and investments including Pinnacle, Brookdale and NBA, and Dean Foods’ acquisition of assets from Parmalat USA.

Mr. Milmoe lectures on fiduciary and restructuring issues for legal and business audiences.  He is listed in the K&A Restructuring Register, the peer group listing of the top restructuring attorneys and financial advisors in the United States; is listed as a leader in the corporate restructuring and insolvency field in both Chambers Global and Chambers USA; has been named by Turnarounds & Workouts to its list of the top dozen restructuring lawyers in America; and was named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer in 2007.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

In 2006, he was honored by the Partnership for Afterschool Education (PASE) as its Afterschool Champion and in 2008 he helped win the Lawyers Cup for Skadden’s Ice Hockey Team in a game to benefit Ice Hockey in Harlem. 

Mr. Milmoe began his career with Skadden in 1971 as a mailroom assistant.