Biography

Mr. Hanlon is a partner practicing in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's Boston office.  He represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, equity holders and trustees in Chapter 11 proceedings and adversary proceedings.  He also represents clients in commercial litigation and insolvency-related matters.  He advises clients with respect to legacy issues, such as health and welfare liabilities.  He is involved in securitization, particularly issuance of bankruptcy non-consolidation opinions.

Mr. Hanlon's representations include out-of-court debt restructuring, protecting rights of retiree and creditor committees, defense of D & O litigation, complex contract and license assumption, lease assumption and rejection, all aspects of commercial real property use, sale and indebtedness, restructuring nursing home debt to governmental and nongovernmental creditors, advising companies on divesting unprofitable divisions, restructuring coal mine debt, reorganizing several family-owned hotels, arranging for repurchase of equity in a regional snack food company from a failed rollup in Chapter 11, and liquidating auto dealerships for national auto finance companies engaged in floor plan financings.

Mr. Hanlon issued a true sale opinion in a $350-million collateralized bond offering by a national mutual insurance company; issued substantial non-consolidation/true sale opinions for a lease receivables originator; and evaluated and negotiated a complex substantive non-consolidation opinion for a foreign bank.

Mr. Hanlon's many Chapter 11 representations include structuring replacement health benefit coverage for retirees of a national steel company, counseling a major ski area in Chapter 11 proceedings, representing telecomm, power and patent licensors in negotiating complex executory contracts and licenses, obtaining a $13.5-million dividend for a publicly held pharmaceutical company in the Chapter 11 proceeding of an adjudicated patent infringer, and preparing a strategic Chapter 11 contingency plan for use by a high-tech manufacturer in negotiations with secured creditors.

Education

J.D., Boston College Law School, cum laude
A.B., College of the Holy Cross

Admissions

• Connecticut
• Massachusetts
• New York

Courts

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Sourthern Districts of New York