Joshua Gadharf

• KL Outdoor – Represents kayak manufacturer in its assignment for the benefit of creditors in Michigan.
• AT Group/Eastern Connection – Represents transportation and logistics company in its assignment for the benefit of creditors in Michigan.
• HVAC Compressor Manufacturer – Represented former manufacture of  HVAC compressors with sales to worldwide customers in its out-of-court wind down and liquidation, including drafting and negotiating dozens of customer and supply agreements, drafting and negotiating purchase agreement, and closing sale of assets to foreign strategic purchaser.
• City of Detroit – Represented Syncora Guarantee and Syncora Capital Assurance in the City of Detroit chapter 9 bankruptcy case in connection with Syncora’s holdings of the City’s certificates of participation and as insurers of certain of the City’s swap and COPs obligations.
• Leading Distributor of Steel Products – Provides regular business advice as outside corporate counsel, including negotiating settlements of contract and other business disputes with customers and suppliers and advising company during its WBENC certification process.
• Leading Designer of Automotive, Mobile, and Consumer Electronics – Provides regular business advice as outside corporate counsel.
• Billnat Corporation dba Sav-On Drugs – Represented chapter 11 debtor in successful sale of its regional drugstore chain to CVS.
• Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corp. – Represented metals producer based in Freeport, Texas and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in its chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and currently represents the Liquidating Trustee of the liquidating trust established post-bankruptcy.
• Keywell L.L.C. – Represented Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy case of leading supplier of recycled titanium, high-temperature alloys and stainless steel in North America, and currently represents the Liquidating Trustee of the liquidating trust established post-bankruptcy.
• Lee Steel Corporation – Represented chapter 11 debtors in successful sale of its steel service business to Union Partners and its excess manufacturing facility to Hilco Industrial and Hilco Real Estate in a transaction fully paying the lender and earning the TMA Chicago/Midwest Small Deal of the Year 2016.
• Bertucci’s Holdings, Inc. – Represented strategic buyer, who is also providing debtor-in-possession financing, in its stalking horse bid to acquire substantially all the assets of Bertucci’s, the owner and operator of full-service casual family restaurants located in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. 
• Central Grocers, Inc. – Represented wholesale cooperative and its subsidiaries, including Strack and Van Til Super Market, Inc., in their chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Chicago, Illinois.
• Elements Behavioral Health – Represented joint venture in providing DIP financing and acquiring leading operator of addiction treatment facility out of bankruptcy.
• Park Place Christian Community of Elmhurst – Represented continuing care retirement community in pre-negotiated chapter 11 bankruptcy in Chicago, Illinois, which restructured over $150 million in bond debt.
• Werthan Packaging – Represented strategic buyer in its stalking horse bid and acquisition of substantially all the assets of Werthan Packaging out of bankruptcy.
• Large Automotive Supplier – Drafted and negotiated supply agreements for one of the world’s largest manufacturers of transmission and wet-wheel brake friction products, supplying both OEMs and automotive aftermarket customers.
• Awrey Bakeries LLC – Represented one of the largest privately owned baked goods producers in the country, in its out-of-court restructuring, wind-down and going concern Article 9 sale to Minnie Marie Bakers, Inc.
• Edison Mission Energy – Represented Edison Mission Energy (EME) as conflicts counsel in its chapter 11 restructuring of approximately $3.7 billion of senior unsecured notes and other obligations; represented EME subsidiary, Camino Energy, as primary debtor’s counsel. EME, through its subsidiaries, owns or leases and operates a portfolio of more than 40 electric generating facilities powered by coal, natural gas, wind, and biomass (with aggregate existing project indebtedness of approximately $1.5 billion), as well as an energy marketing and trading operation.
• Kurz-Kasch – Represented leading manufacturer of conventional coils and stators, engineered composite components and subassemblies, magnetic/electrical/electronic sensing devices, and high performance solenoids in its out-of-court restructuring.
• Real Alloy Recycling – Representing holder of 503(b)(9) claims in chapter 11 cases filed by leading aluminum producer.
• Tribune Company – Represented Tribune Company’s two largest former shareholders and dozens of other former shareholders, all defendants in several fraudulent transfer lawsuits where plaintiffs sought to claw back payments made to shareholders during Tribune’s leveraged buy-out in 2007.
• Lake County Family Young Men’s Christian Association – Represented Illinois not-for-profit corporation in its out-of-court restructuring, wind down, and assignment for the benefit of creditors.
• TSC Global, LLC – Represented company involved in the sale, marketing, and distribution of consumer brand products, including “e-cigarettes,” to top retailers, travel centers, and truck stops, in its out-of-court restructuring, wind down, and two UCC Article 9 sales.
• Hess Industries, Inc. – Represented manufacturer of heavy equipment and metal forming machines in its out-of-court restructuring and eventual chapter 7 filing.
• Commercial Foreclosures – Represented secured lenders in all phases of commercial mortgage foreclosure litigation. 
• Pro Bono – Represented plaintiff in race and sex discrimination lawsuit brought against his employer. 

Selected for inclusion in Michigan Rising Stars (2015-2020)

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law

Washington University in St Louis

Admissions – Court

Admissions – State

Professional Activities

Board of Directors-Turnaround Management Association (Detroit Chapter)

External News & Publications

"Gadharf Excited for Debtor Work In New McDonald Hopkins Gig," DBR Small Cap, June 22, 2012

“The Decline of Traditional Pensions, the Impact of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and the Future of America’s Defined-Benefit Pension System,” 83 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 1409 (2008)