Cases
Experience: Chapter 11 Cases
Bankruptcy Litigation: Zosano Pharma Corporation in its Chapter 11 case involving a 363 sale of the debtor's clinical biopharmaceutical assets
confirmation of a liquidating plan. (D. Del.)
Counsel for Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, Alpha Entertainment (XFL Football).
Largest unsecured creditor in the Chapter 11 case of Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., et al.
Largest unsecured creditor in the Chapter 11 case of Lasik Vision Institute, et al.
Nighthawk Production LLC, et. al, in Chapter 11 cases involving a 363 sale of the debtors' assets
related cross-border ancillary proceeding of London Stock Exchange-listed parent in U.K.
Counsel for MUJI USA, Ltd.
Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, Ryckman Creek Resources, LLC, et al.
Counsel for Mississippi Development Authority in the KiOR, Inc. bankruptcy proceeding.
Represented Optima Specialty Steel as Debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented Liberty Medical as Debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Werner Holding Co. Chapter 11 cases.
Represented Indianapolis Downs, LLC as Debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented Last Call Guarantor LLC
several affiliates as Debtors their Chapter 11 case
subsequent 363 sale.
Represented FriendFinder Networks Inc as Debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented BackYard Burgers as Debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented certain bondholders in connection with the Chapter 11 filing of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
Represented certain bondholders in connection with the Chapter 11 filing of AbitibiBowater.
Represented Chem Rx Corp. as debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented Syntax-Brillian Corporation as debtor in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the VeraSun Energy Corp. Chapter 11 cases.
Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the ProtoStar Ltd. Chapter 11 cases.
Represented managing general agent of insurer in obtaining summary judgment dismissing $2.1 million preference claim. In re Railworks Corporation et al. (Guttman v. Construction Program Group), 2012 WL 6681894 (Bankr. D. Md. December 21, 2012).
Represented Fortune 500 national electronics parts distributor, securing dismissal of a $5.4 million preference claim, the largest preference claim in the case, based on release obtained settling dispute concerning sale proceeds. In re Managed Storage International, Inc. et al. (Burtch v. Avnet, Inc.), 2012 WL 5921723 (Bankr. D. Del. November 26, 2012).
Represented Fortune 500 national distributor of electronic components through trial
appeal in preference litigation before the U.S. Bankruptcy
District Courts for the District of New Hampshire, decreasing liability from $4.4 million to approximately $500,000. In re Amherst Technologies LLC (Bogdanov v. Avnet, Inc.), 2011 WL 4625698 (D. N.H. September 30, 2011)
In re Amherst Technologies LLC (Bogdanov v. Avnet, Inc.), 2010 WL 3517066 (Bankr. D. N. H. September 3, 2010).
Counsel for Chapter 11 debtor, PS America, Inc.
Represented Northwestern Energy Corporation as Debtor in its Chapter 11 case
related litigation.
Represented the pre-
post-petition secured lenders in the Fleming Companies, Inc. Chapter 11 cases.
Represented defendants in numerous bankruptcy cases involving the pursuit of preferential transfers, fraudulent conveyances
other causes of action.
Litigation Matters: Represented financial institution in connection with a trial
subsequent appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court involving the administration of a charitable trust.
Securities Matters: Represented various brokerages in connection with actions for fraud, unauthorized trading
violations of the Delaware Securities Act.
Represented brokerage in connection with action involving alleged market-timing
late trading.
Internship: Judicial Extern, Hon. Russell M. Nigro, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2002-2003
