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Lehman Brother’s Bankruptcy Dean: Harvey Miller

By Stony Olsen

Lehman Brother’s Bankruptcy Dean: Harvey Miller is once again in the news, primarily due to the spectacular collapse of Lehman
Brothers over the past weekend.

Miller is a partner at the prominent New
York firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He is
primarily known as one of the “deans”
of the bankruptcy bar, having built
Weil Gotshal into the premier firm for
handling bankruptcies.
And that reputation has served the
firm well, as Weil was tapped to handle
the largest corporate bankruptcy in the history of the United
States — troubled firm Lehman Brothers.
Mr. Miller was born on March 1st of 1933 in New York City.
He got a BA from Brooklyn College in 1953 and his JD from
Columbia in 1959. He joined Weil Gotshal in 1969.
During his tenure at Weil, Mr. Miller built the firm into a
bankruptcy and restructuring powerhouse. Focused on
the debtor side of the bankruptcy equation, Miller led the
bankruptcies of both Texaco Inc. and Continental Airlines. The
Wall Street Journal has quoted one of Miller’s peers as stating
that Miller is “one of a handful of people responsible for the
development of modern bankruptcy practice.”
Before the Lehman Brothers collapse, Harvey Miller led the
bankruptcy efforts of the last major investment bank to go
under, Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
So Harvey Miller is the best of the best when it comes to
bankruptcy. He has been a managing partner of Weil Gotshal
for over 25 years.
In 2003, Miller left Weil Gotshal for merchant banking firm
Greenhill & Co. LLP, where he was a managing director and also
vice-chairman. In 2007, he returned to Weis Gotshal — just in
time to help Weis Gotshal get the biggest bankruptcy ever.
In addition to his regular bankruptcy and partner duties, Miller is
an adjunct professor of law at New York University Law School,
and also a lecturer in law at Columbia University School of
Law. He has also taught at Yale Law School, and has published
numerous texts in the restructuring and bankruptcy field.
Mr. Miller has been ranked as a “Senior Statesman” in
bankruptcy in New York by Chambers USA, and according to
the Legal 500 US 2008 edition, Miller is the top ranked lawyer
in finance for corporate restructuring.
With the Lehman Brothers news, and probable further large
bankruptcies to come, Harvey Miller is, at age 75, more
relevant and more powerful than ever.

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