Bio

Larry Halperin is a partner in Chapman's Special Situations and Restructuring Group. Larry focuses his practice on financial restructuring of distressed companies, high yield and distressed debt transactions, commercial lending transactions and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He represents agents, private funds, investment banks, and financial institutions in connection with their investments in, and financing transactions to, mid-cap companies. He also represents special restructuring committees of boards of directors and independent directors of distressed companies in restructuring matters. As part of his M&A practice, Larry counsels clients who desire to acquire portfolio companies in need of restructuring by acquiring such companies' distressed debt. He has advised lenders in connection with an orderly exercise of remedies to achieve a practical, business oriented restructuring solution for the company and the acquiring fund. He also advises clients participating in the global secondary market for troubled and non-performing loans and claims. Larry speaks widely at industry conferences on distressed investing and restructuring topics, including the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) VALCON conference, American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) conferences, and Turnaround Management Association (TMA) conferences and chapter programs. Larry teaches a corporate restructuring class as an adjunct professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Additionally, he is a popular restructuring class guest lecturer for undergraduate business and MBA students at Columbia University and the University of Michigan, as well as the University of Michigan Maize and Blue Fund and the University of Michigan Entrepreneur & Venture Club. Larry has co-authored three case studies, one of which has been published, which have been presented in business schools and at industry conferences. Larry is also a CPA.