“Michael is good to work with, always displays a good understanding of the legal and business matters and is solutions-oriented.”
— Chambers USA 2024
Mike VanNiel is BakerHostetler’s Ohio Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice team Leader. He maintains a bankruptcy and commercial law practice focused on complex insolvency and related commercial and appellate litigation, corporate debtor restructuring, creditors’ committee representations, representation of financial institutions in specialized finance matters, secured lenders, acquirers of distressed businesses and business owners and creditors in workouts and insolvency proceedings.
Throughout his career, Mike has represented every constituency involved in reorganizations, liquidations, workouts and insolvency-related commercial and appellate litigation. He also acts as a long-time trusted business advisor and outside general counsel for numerous manufacturing, retail and private equity clients with respect to their day-to-day businesses.
With a creative approach to the difficult issues facing clients, Mike provides hands-on representation and is relentless in advancing clients’ interests during high-stakes restructuring and commercial litigation and bet-the-company business matters.
Mike is recognized by Chambers USA® as a leading Bankruptcy and Restructuring lawyer, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Litigation - Bankruptcy and Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law. He was also a recipient of the 2002 American Bankruptcy Institute Gold Medal of Excellence Award.