Michael A. Shiner

Mr. Shiner is a shareholder in our Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Department and practices in the areas of bankruptcy, workout, insolvency, and representation of creditors and other parties.

Mike has experience in all aspects of bankruptcy and bankruptcy related litigation. He has been involved in large bankruptcy cases in the Western District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, including the bankruptcy cases of retailer Forman Enterprises, Inc., hospital chain AHERF, and metals related companies Carbide-Graphite Group, Inc. and LTV Steel Corporation. Mike has experience in asbestos bankruptcies through his representation of major insurers in the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Harbison-Walker and Mid-Valley, Inc. bankruptcy cases. He has successfully litigated dischargeability actions, administrative expense claims, preference claims, and lender liability claims in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and other bankruptcy courts, including in the matters of Commonwealth Packaging Company v. PNC Bank, National Association, 280 B.R. 609 (Bankr. W.D. Pa. 2002); Northern Apparels, Inc. v. PNC Bank, National Association, 271 B.R. 483 (Bankr. W.D. Pa. 2002); and PNC Bank, National Association v. Buzzelli, 246 B.R. 75 (Bankr. W.D. Pa. 2000).

Mike is a member of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section Council of the Allegheny County Bar Association and has been a regular speaker and presenter at the Tri-State Bankruptcy Symposium since 1998. Mike served as a member of the Attorney CM/ECF Implementation Committee and of the Strategic Planning Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He has been named a 2005 and 2006 Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia Magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine.

Mike is admitted to practice in all state courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Mike was named a 2007 Pennsylvania "Rising Star" by Philadelphia Magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine - a distinction granted to only 2.5 percent of Pennsylvania's lawyers.

Mike joined Tucker Arensberg in 1996 immediately after graduating magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and being honored with selection for the Order of the Coif. At the University of Pittsburgh, he received the Law Alumni Scholarship and served as lead articles editor on the Law Review.
 

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