More than two years later, Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Harvey Miller still has a tone of indignation in his voice when he recalls the chaos that surrounded the days leading up to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. 2008 bankruptcy filing and, eventually, liquidation.
Describing his first appearance in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan on behalf of Lehman that September, he says: “At the hearing some attorney said, ‘This is the worst-planned Chapter 11 I’ve seen,’” says Miller, who had been retained just days earlier and had been working around the clock to prepare the filing, “I said, ‘You’re wrong. This was not a planned Chapter 11. This was unplanned.’”
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