Distressed Healthcare Restructurings: Navigating the New Normal

Samuel R. Maizel is a partner in Dentons US LLP in Los Angeles and focuses his practice on restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy in and out of court in all industries, and he leads the firm’s health care industry restructuring efforts nationwide. He has served as lead bankruptcy counsel to health care debtors and creditors’ committees, including in the recently completed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Verity Health System of California Inc., and 15 related companies, the second-largest hospital bankruptcy in American history.

Before joining Dentons, Mr. Maizel was a partner at a national bankruptcy boutique firm (1997-2015) and represented the federal government nationwide as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Commercial Litigation Branch (1991-96). He has also served in U.S. Army’s The Judge Advocate General’s Corps (1985-91), including service in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, as well as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army (1977-85).

Mr. Maizel has lectured extensively, is widely published, and been interviewed on television and radio on topics related to the health care industry and bankruptcy. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, is ranked in Chambers USA in both Bankruptcy and Health Care, and has regularly been named a “Super Lawyer.”

Mr. Maizel received his B.S. in 1977 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his M.A. from Georgetown University in government in 1983 and his J.D. in 1985 from George Washington University School of Law, where he won the Jacob Burns Prize for excellence in appellate advocacy and served as president of the Moot Court Board.

Tania M. Moyron is a partner in Dentons' Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group. Tania has significant experience in bankruptcy, corporate restructuring and related litigation matters. She has represented Chapter 11 debtors, creditors’ and equity committees, liquidating trustees, principals and secured and unsecured creditors in all aspects of corporate bankruptcy. She also has advised buyers and sellers of assets in bankruptcy and receivership cases, including representation of a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) and restaurant franchise.

Tania's representations span a variety of industries, including health care, retail, entertainment, trucking, commercial and residential real estate and restaurant franchise industries. She also has litigation experience in state and federal courts and appellate experience before the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, District Courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining Dentons, Tania gained experience in complex and challenging Chapter 11 cases at top-ranked national firms for business restructuring and bankruptcy. Tania also served as a judicial and appellate law clerk to the Honorable Christopher M. Klein, Chief Judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California and former member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.