Geraldine Ann Freeman

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Of Counsel

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Matters: Represented state court receiver in connection with the management
  control of over 5,000 FCC licenses.
  Represented institutional investor in preferred equity transactions involving multifamily real estate projects in California
  Washington.
  Represented agent bank as lead counsel in the workout of a defaulted loan to a government contractor with ongoing projects around the globe, resulting in the payment in full of the credit obligations.
  Represented agent bank as lead counsel in the workout, bankruptcy, enforcement of creditors' rights
  lien priority litigation, involving multiple loans made to a large residential home builder with partially completed housing projects throughout the Central Valley of California.
  Represented a public REIT in connection with the funding of a cram down plan of reorganization pursuant to which it acquired a majority
  controlling interest in a Chapter 11 debtor, which owned a 12-acre parcel located in Silicon Valley
  suitable for development as a multi-family residential
  retail project.
  Represented defendants in multimillion dollar preference
  fraudulent transfer proceedings brought by bankruptcy trustee, resulting in very favorable settlements.
  Represented Chapter 11 Trustee as lead counsel in the bankruptcy of a national art gallery, including in the successful appeal of the order approving the Trustee's plan of reorganization.
  Represented a public REIT as lender
  investor in the documentation
  workout (leading to a change in control) of a mezzanine loan
  equity investment made to finance a multi-use development project in downtown Los Angeles, also financed with multiple bond issuances.
  Represented the lender in a workout
  eventual mixed collateral foreclosure sale of a time-share resort located in Napa Valley.
  Represented a group of equipment lessors in the Chapter 11 case of Excite At Home, including as lead counsel in an action filed by the equipment lessors against the bondholders to enforce subordination provisions in the trust indenture,
  in an action filed against the equipment lessors challenging their status as equipment lessors under the Bankruptcy Code. Also served as lead counsel to the equipment lessors in the negotiation of a plan of reorganization with multiple constituencies,
  in the preparation
  implementation of a distribution agreement among the equipment lessors to govern distribution among the group of $100 million in plan payments received by the equipment lessors
  the distribution of all the leased equipment of Excite At Home located in hundreds of sites across Canada
  the U.S. which was ab
  oned to the equipment lessors pursuant to the plan.
  Represented the independent members of the board of directors of a large international automotive parts company in connection with the insolvency
  Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the company.