Cases
Experience: Secured Lender: Represented Prepetition
DIP Agent in the Chapter 11 of wholesale fuel supplier
convenience store retailer with 855 locations in 28 states.
Represented secured lender
equity sponsor in the Chapter 11 of a large mortgage company with operations in all 50 states.
Represented secured lender in the Chapter 11 of a condominium development project with more than $30 million in secured debt.
Represented secured lender in the Chapter 11 of one of the largest Chevrolet dealers in the United States.
Represented secured lender in the Chapter 11 of a major automotive rental car company.
Represented secured lender
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lord in large receivership of skilled nursing facilities.
Chapter 11 Debtor: Represented publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company in its chapter 11 case, culminating in the sale of the business as a going concern.
Represented restaurant chain with 100 locations in 25 states in their Chapter 11 cases
Represented retailer of luxury goods in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented snack food manufacturer in its Chapter 11 case, resulting in the sale of substantially all of the company's assets.
Represented publicly traded plastics manufacturer in its Chapter 11 case.
Represented frack s
suppliers in their Chapter 11 cases, resulting in debt for equity swap.
Represented receiver appointed by the Securities
Exchange Commission to administer the assets of companies engaged in a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. The representation included filing a Chapter 11 proceeding on behalf of the companies
utilizing bankruptcy avoidance powers to recover assets transferred to insiders
scheme participants.
Creditor Committee: Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 cases of health care sharing ministry. Obtained confirmation of committee's plan of liquidation following complex negotiations with class action plaintiffs.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 cases of a regional health system.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 cases of the largest skilled nursing facility operator in Texas.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 cases of restaurant chains with 300 locations in 35 states.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of several consumer finance companies. Due to problems with management, the committee sought,
obtained, the appointment of a Chapter 11 trustee following a trial.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of a mining company. The representation resulted in the confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan providing for the payment of unsecured creditors in full.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of a global manufacturing company.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of a hospital with $131 million in secured debt.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of a chain of eldercare facilities throughout the southeastern United States.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of a chain of supermarkets located in Alabama
Florida.
Represented creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 of a textile concern.
Indenture Trustees/Bondholders: Represented indenture trustee in chapter 11 cases of proton cancer treatment centers.
Represented indenture trustee in chapter 11 case of recycling facility. Obtained dismissal of case following debtor's unsuccessful attempt to obtain priming insider financing.
Represented indenture trustee in archdiocese's Chapter 11 case involving abuse claimants
first chair in successful litigation
trial to obtain appointment of a separate commercial claimants' creditor committee.
Represented indenture trustee in Chapter 11 case of wood pellet plant.
Represented indenture trustee for bondholders in the bankruptcy of a pharmaceutical company.
Represented indenture trustee
bondholders in the bankruptcy of the developer of a new town.
Numerous representations of indenture trustees in defaulted community development districts.
Asset Purchasers: Represented private equity fund in the acquisition of distributor of firearms
outdoor equipment.
Represented private equity fund in the acquisition of a bitcoin mining company's assets.
Represented private equity fund in the acquisition of business services companies.
Represented food processor in the acquisition of a facility in Chapter 11 cases pending in Delaware.
Represented private equity fund in the purchase of substantially all of the assets of a telecommunications company in a bankruptcy sale.
Represented purchaser of a promissory note in the contested Chapter 11 case of a lessee of oceanfront property in Georgia. Obtained relief from the automatic stay
foreclosed on the lease in the property, resulting in the client obtaining the right to develop a resort on multiple parcels of leased property.
Represented developer of a multiple parcel project in the purchase of real property in a bankruptcy sale. Represented the developer in negotiations with the debtor, the City of Atlanta
the developer's lender in obtaining appropriate financing for the project.
Chapter 7 Trustees: Represented Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of a consumer finance company with operations in the southern United States.
Represented Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of an international telecommunications company.
Other Bankruptcy: Served as mediator in various litigation matters in the Remington Outdoors chapter 11 case.
Represented Chapter 11 plan administrator in the bankruptcy of long term care facilities with approximately $70 million in secured debt.
Represented investment bank in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy case of a mortgage originator.
Director
Officer Liability Litigation: Prosecuted avoidance claims against an insider of a failed skilled nursing facility chain, achieving a multimillion-dollar settlement after a week-long jury trial.
Defended director
officer of a cryptocurrency company
obtained dismissal of lawsuit after filing motion to dismiss.
Defended directors of a distressed restaurant chain.
Defended directors
officers of a distressed retail chain. Nuisance value settlement after obtaining dismissal of various claims at pleadings phase.
Prosecuted claims against the directors
officers of a failed retail chain
settlement during discovery.
Prosecuted claims against the directors
officers of a failed subprime lender
multimillion-dollar jury award after a 4-week trial.
Prosecuted claims against the directors
officers of a failed hospital
multimillion-dollar settlement without litigation.
Prosecuted claims against the directors
officers of a failed metals recycler
settlement during discovery.
Prosecuted claims against the directors
officers of a failed chain of skilled nursing facilities
settlement during discovery.
