Michael Imber Managing Director, Public Sector & Higher Education

Michael Imber is a Managing Director on the Corporate Restructuring team and leads the Public Sector & Higher Education Solutions practice.  He has 30 years of experience counseling clients on bankruptcies, workouts, and municipal consulting assignments. Michael has extensive municipal Chapter 9 bankruptcy experience and represented major unsecured creditors in the City of Detroit bankruptcy. In addition, Michael has generated material recoveries for the largest unsecured creditor claimants in the Jefferson County and the Mammoth Lakes Chapter 9 cases. 

Michael advised the State of Oregon on remediating a $400 million+ COVID-relief funding program; he led a budget analysis of K-12 and Higher Education in the State of Kansas as part of a larger efficiency study that identified $2 billion of savings opportunities. Michael has also served as a financial & restructuring adviser to the New York State Comptroller, Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NJ Transit, and several other major municipal transit authorities. He also has extensive performance improvement and turnaround experience with private universities. 

Prior to joining Epiq, Michael served as Managing Director at Riveron. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a former Chair of both the Municipal Analyst Group of New York and the Turnaround Management Association’s New York Chapter.  He is a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Adviser.  His current pro bono work includes service as Board Chair of the Connecticut Democracy Center and the elected Chairman of the Board of Finance of his hometown of Weston, CT.