Sommer Leigh Ross

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Representing Restaurants Acquisition I, LLC d/b/a Blacked-eyed Pea restaurant in its chapter 11 reorganization.
  Represented Claims Recovery Group LLC, as assignee of Hormel Foods Corporation, in the AgFeed Industries Inc. bankruptcy cases
  helped them collect on account of the assigned $2.8 million Hormel claim against the hog producer.
  Representing secured lenders as the debtor-in-possession lenders in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of the Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.
  Representing a government authority as an unsecured creditor, owed $20 million, in the bankruptcy proceedings of a hybrid automaker.
  Represented R&D Circuits, a portfolio company of Guardian Capital Partners, in the acquisition of Altanova Corporation, a manufacturer
  distributor of ATE circuit boards.
  In re Spansion (co-counsel to debtors)
  In re Comfort Co. (counsel to debtors)
  In re Archway Cookies (counsel to debtors)
  In re Centaur (co-counsel to first lien agent)
  In re Tropicana, Inc. (co-counsel to steering committee of senior secured lenders)
  In re Orleans Homebuilders (counsel to creditors' committee)
  In re Pope & Talbot, Inc. (co-counsel to the Chapter 15 Foreign Representative)