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Michael H. Weaver
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803.753.3236 Direct803.799.9800 Main
803.933.1548 Direct Fax
803.753.3278 Main Fax
mweaver@mcnair.net
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Columbia, SC Office
1221 Main Street
Suite 1800
Columbia, SC 29201 Paralegal
Kathy Handrock
khandrock@mcnair.net
803.753.3378 Direct
Overview
Michael assists clients with commercial bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and creditors' rights issues, and has significant experience in complex Chapter 11 cases. Michael represents financially distressed companies as well as lenders, landlords, trade creditors, trustees and creditors' committees in bankruptcy, insolvency and loan workout matters.
Michael has assisted and advised clients in connection with general reorganization matters, workouts, use of cash collateral, efforts to convert or dismiss cases, preferential and fraudulent transfer litigation, automatic stay issues, bankruptcy sales and acquisitions, lease assumption or rejection, claim objections, plan confirmation issues and other aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring efforts.
- Served as counsel to the Chapter 11 Trustee and Plan Administrator in the case of a 115 employee, freight payment provider
- Served as debtor's counsel in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of a 325 employee, $200 million national paint sundries distributor
- Co-counsel to ad hoc committee of term lenders in a regional grocery store Chapter 11 case
- Represented official committee of unsecured creditors and liquidating supervisor in connection with a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case involving a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle (MRAP) manufacturer
- Represented steel manufacturer in connection with its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and reorganization
- Represented secured lender in connection with its state court debt collection matters
- Represented truck manufacturer in connection with its corporate matters and its product liability and contract disputes
- Represented Korean manufacturing company in connection with its creation of a U.S. subsidiary and purchase of a manufacturing facility in South Carolina
- South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association
- President (2018)
- Vice President (2017)
- Board Member (2014 - present)
- Associate, J. Bratton Davis American Inn of Court (2018 - present)
- Board Member, Columbia Chamber of Commerce (2017)
- Board Member, Midlands Business Leadership Group (2017)
- Member, South Carolina Local Bankruptcy Court Rules Committee
- Member, Lexington Chamber of Commerce Policy Committee
- Member, Turnaround Management Association, Carolinas Chapter
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
- Member, United Way of the Midlands
- Chair, Certification Committee (2017-2018)
- Chair, Pacesetter Campaign (2015-2016)
- Chair, Certification Committee (2015-2016)
- Member, Community Impact Council
- Member, Young Leaders Society
- Past-Chair, Financial Stability Council (2012-2013)
- Graduate, Leadership South Carolina (2017)
- Graduate, Leadership Columbia (2011)
- Named, "Lawyer of the Year," Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law - Columbia (2019)
- Honoree, United Way of the Midlands' Alyce Kemp DeWitt Award (2017)
- Named, The State's "20 Under 40" (2017)
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America© (2015-2019)
- Named, Legal Elite of the Midlands, Columbia Business Monthly (2015-2016, 2018)
- Listed, South Carolina Super Lawyers®, Bankruptcy: Business (2014-2018)
- “Super Lawyers Rising Star,” Bankruptcy: Business (2014-2017)
- Editor in Chief, ABA Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Inductee, Order of the Coif, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Inductee, Order of the Wig and Robe, University of South Carolina School of Law
- Speaker, "Valuation Issues in Schedules," South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association Annual Seminar (May 2016)
- Speaker, "Section 363 Sales," South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association (October 2015)
- Author, “Third Party Payors: What You Don't Know Could Hurt You,” Credit Today (2014)
- Author, “Mind the Discharge – What Every Young Lawyer Needs to Know About Section 523 of the Bankruptcy Code,” South Carolina Young Lawyer (July 2008)
- Co-Author, “The Bankruptcy Reform Act’s Impact on Commercial Debtors and Their Creditors,” South Carolina Lawyer (May 2007)
- In re Ferguson, 474 B.R. 466 (Bankr. D.S.C. 2012)
- Aurora Management Partners, Inc. v. GC Financial Services Inc. (In re Protected Vehicles Inc.), 429 B.R. 865 (Bankr. D.S.C. 2010)
- Fort v. Innegra Techs., LLC (In re NMFC, LLC), 522 B.R. 869 (Bankr. D.S.C. 2015)
