Geoffrey Miller

Geoffrey Miller is a Partner and a member of Dentons' Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group. His primary practice area is Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law.

He represents a wide range of clients in distressed situations and restructurings both in and out of court. His experience spans all phases of financial distress, including out-of-court workouts and foreclosures, sales and acquisitions of distressed businesses and assets, financing and cash collateral disputes, and chapter 11 plans. He also regularly represents insurers and insurance-related entities in bankruptcy cases, including cases arising from mass torts.

He has been named as one of the Best Lawyers in America and a top service provider by The Legal 500. He currently is the Chair of the ABA's Mass Torts and Environmental Claims Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee.

His debtor experience includes representing Powin, LLC and its affiliates in their chapter 11 cases, where he successfully negotiated and obtained DIP financing, sold substantially all of Powin's assets and confirmed a combined joint disclosure statement and plan with the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors. He also represented First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation in the chapter 11 cases filed by the home mortgage originator in the District of Delaware, negotiating and obtaining approval of two DIP facilities and coordinating settlements of complex claims with Government Sponsored Entities including Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

He represented Borrego Community Health Foundation in its chapter 11 case, obtaining court orders stopping the California Medi-Cal program's efforts to stop paying for services and later securing approval of a comprehensive settlement with the California Department of Health Care Services, as well as approval of the sale of substantially all of Borrego's assets for more than $50 million in value to the estate. He also represented Verity Health System of California, Inc. and 16 related entities, including six significant operating hospitals, in the second largest hospital bankruptcy case in American history, closing the sale of two hospitals for $235 million and obtaining court approval of the sale of the debtors' remaining assets for $610 million.

He represented Astria Health in the filing of 13 related chapter 11 cases, obtaining court approval of postpetition financing over the objections of secured lenders, closing one underperforming hospital, obtaining court approval to sell certain assets, and successfully negotiating a joint plan of reorganisation with the debtors' largest secured lender.

His insurance and mass tort experience includes representing insurance carriers in asbestos-related bankruptcies, including In re Aldrich Pump LLC, Asbestos Corporation Limited, In re Budd Company, In re Oakfabco, In re C.P. Hall Company and In re The Fairbanks Company. He has represented insurance carriers in bankruptcies arising from opioid-related liabilities, including the Rite Aid, Endo and Mallinckrodt bankruptcy cases, and has represented insurance companies in numerous bankruptcy cases of religious organisations caused by sexual abuse claims, including the Diocese of Buffalo, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Fe, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg.

He represented insurance companies holding in excess of $1 billion of subrogation claims in the Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. bankruptcy case, the largest chapter 11 utility bankruptcy in US history, and represented an insurer in the Imerys Talc America bankruptcy case and in the USA Gymnastics chapter 11 case. He also represented directors and officers and various related entities in the cross-border bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ltd., a mass tort case that achieved an unprecedented $400 million settlement fund to be administered jointly between the debtors' US and Canadian estates.

His other experience includes representing purchasers of businesses and assets acquired through chapter 11 section 363 sale processes, counselling directors and officers, private equity sponsors and other non-debtor affiliated parties on their rights and obligations in bankruptcy cases, representing liquidating trustees and trusts created pursuant to confirmed chapter 11 plans, and representing official committees of creditors, including the Official Committee of Retirees in The City of Detroit, Michigan and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases filed by Beverly Community Hospital Association.

His recognition includes being recognised as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2021–2023) and listed as a Recognized Lawyer by The Legal 500 (2022). He has also been a key member of Dentons teams recognised with numerous awards, including the Global M&A Network's Turnaround of the Year (Small Middle Market) and the M&A Advisor's 2026 Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year Award for the representation of Powin LLC, and the Turnaround Management Association's 2024 Non-Profit Company Turnaround/Transaction of the Year Award and the American Bankruptcy Institute's Asset Sale of the Year in 2024 for the representation of Borrego Community Health Foundation.

He holds an LL.M. in Bankruptcy from St. John's University School of Law (2012), a JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (2011), where he was Note & Comment Editor of the UMKC Law Review, and a BS in Finance from the University of Kansas (2007).