George Mesires is a Partner with Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, and leads the firm's Chicago finance and restructuring team. George concentrates his practice on finance, corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, distressed mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters. George's experience also includes advising directors and officers on corporate governance, fiduciary duties and strategic matters. He has represented private equity firms, lenders, debtors, receivers, trade creditors and landlords in a variety of insolvency and distressed situations.
George has significant experience in healthcare and the senior housing industry, representing both for-profit and not-for-profit operators in a variety of engagements, including affiliations, acquisitions, financings, governance matters, restructurings and bankruptcy.
Prior to private practice, George was general counsel for a startup telecommunications company and led the distressed sale process of substantially all of the company's assets to a regional telecommunications company. Before serving as in-house counsel, George was an assistant attorney general in the New York state attorney general's office.