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Resolving Troubled Business Situations
In the course of a professional career as a lawyer, investment banker, senior
public company executive, and board member, Michael George has developed the
skill to help resolve troubled business situations. He has managed complex,
multi-party financial and organizational workouts in real estate, investment
portfolios, operating businesses and municipal enterprises. He has acted as
debtor-in-possession in bankruptcy proceedings as well as advisor on development
and confirmation of complex plans of reorganization. He has also served as
trusted advisor to political and business leaders and as an active member of
corporate and not-for-profit boards of directors.
Mr. George is an honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame (Phi Beta
Kappa) and the Georgetown University Law Center (law journal editor). As a
practicing lawyer, he has handled trial and appellate litigation as well as
administrative proceedings before federal and state regulatory agencies. He is
admitted to practice before federal and state courts in California, the District
of Columbia and Minnesota.
In 1978, he began a 20-year career as an investment banker, culminating in
leadership of J.P.Morgan’s public finance and regulated company investment
banking practice on the West Coast. In 1998, he was named CEO and a director of
a troubled client, Western Water Company (NASDAQ:WWTR). A year and a half into a
restructuring, Mr. George was elected to the additional post of Chairman of the
Board and later de-leveraged its balance sheet and transitioned it to a
closely-held company.
More recently, in his role as Executive Vice President for Corporate Development
at American States Water Company (NYSE:AWR), Mr. George facilitated the
company’s re-positioning, water portfolio restructuring, and leadership
succession process.
In early 2009, Mr. George returned to investment banking, joining Sutter
Securities as a Senior Managing Director with responsibilities in the areas of
financial restructurings and water/energy resource finance. He has recently
lectured on natural resources law and policy at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School
of Law. He has also taught a practicum on developing and negotiating structured
loan workouts.
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