Practice AreaRestructuring and Bankruptcy
Restructuring and Bankruptcy
The firm’s Restructuring and Bankruptcy team advises investors, purchasers, sponsors and middle-market and emerging companies in navigating the complexities of distressed business and financial situations. Experienced in debt and equity restructurings, bankruptcy law (including Chapter 7, 11 and 15), distressed asset sales, liquidations, operational winddowns, corporate dissolutions and workouts, our attorneys provide practical and sophisticated legal advice and representation to their clients both in and out of court.
Our team works particularly closely with the firm’s Corporate and M&A groups to structure sophisticated strategic transactions and achieve consensual outcomes even in the most complex of restructuring situations.
Select representations by our restructuring attorneys include:
Represented ad hoc group of family and friend investors in re-negotiation of capital table and operating agreement for early-stage consumer products company seeking institutional financing
US counsel to private investment firm in $1.5 billion multi-jurisdictional restructuring of oil & gas company through a Brazilian judicial reorganization (recuperacão judicial) proceeding
Counsel to private investment partnership in connection with structuring potential acquisition of manufacturer through pre-negotiated Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, including negotiating treatment of multiple classes of senior secured debt and unsecured claims
Counsel to multi-strategy private investment firm ($7 billion AUM) as majority shareholder and secured debt holder in Chapter 11 cases of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P), including in various auctions of all or substantially all of its assets
Representation of various independent film production companies in the Chapter 11 cases of The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC and affiliates, including in the sale of all or substantially all of its assets
Advising various emerging companies in out-of-court wind down and liquidation strategies including negotiating with third-party seed investors to maximize outcomes and minimize expenses
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