Mitchel is a partner with more than thirty years experience in complex corporate restructures, business reorganizations, chapter 11 proceedings, and out-of-court workouts throughout the country and cross-border, having represented debtors, creditors, equity holders and investors, banks and other secured or unsecured lenders, creditors’ committees, insurance companies, consultants, liquidators, and other parties impacted or affected by troubled company and financially-distressed situations.

Representative Experience
Represents financially troubled companies in out-of-court workouts and in Bankruptcy Court restructures and reorganizations.

Represents numerous clients on behalf of the debtor, including Allis-Chambers Corporation, Ameripol Synpol Corporation, Big Wheel Stores, Braniff Airways, Caldor Corporation, City Stores Company, Evan Products Company, M. Fabrikant & Sons, Inc., Food Fair, Forum Group, Frost Bros., Inc., Furniture-in-the-Raw, Inc., G. Heileman Brewing Company, Hair Club For Men, Health-Tex, Inc., Houbigant, Inc., Insilco Corporation, Jamesway Corporation, Johns-Manville Corporation, Korvettes, Inc., Leaseway Transportation Corp., Kidsmart Inc., LTV Corporation, Marx Toys, Pretrefesa Corporation, Pinnacle Trading Card Company, Steak & Brew, Inc., Strawberries, Inc., Supermarket Services, Inc., Unitel Video, Inc., White Motor Company and Zapata Corporation, as well as several eleemosynary institutions.

Represents banks and other lending institutions, such as CIT Business Credit, Foothill Capital Corp, IBJ Schroeder, as well as, creditors’ committees, insurance companies, brokerage firms, investment banking groups, consultants and liquidators, real estate interests, and high net worth individuals.

Counsels numerous groups in acquiring distressed or chapter 11 companies, including Baker & Taylor, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets/business of chapter 11 debtor Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. and The Trump Group in its acquisition of the assets/business of chapter 11 debtor Elite Modeling Agency, and including cross-border distressed acquisition opportunities, such as Austar United Communications Limited (Australia).

Presentations and Speaking Engagements
Mitchel has also participated in lectures and symposia before, among others, the National Association of Home Builders, involving the areas of corporate reorganization, bankruptcy and debtors’ and creditors’ rights, including the depressed real estate industry, distressed asset valuation and disposition, chapter 11 plan confirmation strategies, and the interaction of bankruptcy and environmental laws.

Publications
Mitchel was quoted in the March 14th issue of Crain's New York Business. In the article entitled, Going, Going, Gone...Bankruptcies soar among entrepreneurs from retailers to restaurants as recession, creditors cause implosions; some can't even muster formal filings, Mr. Perkiel comments on the sharp increase of bankruptcy filings in all types of industries.

Mitchel is quoted in an article titled, Landlords Seen Proactive With Tenant Bankruptcies, in the January 16 issue of the Real Estate Weekly.