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Represented a joint venture between two hedge funds and a pharmaceutical company in it’s successful purchase of substantially all of the assets of Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., which distributed a weight loss drug in a Section 363 sale and in structuring the joint venture to manage and operate the resulting business

Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in EXCO Resources, Inc

Primarily responsible for documentation and structuring of plan of reorganization for Performance Sports Group, Inc. on behalf of Official Equity Committee (Winner of the 2018 Turnaround Management Large Transaction Award)

Special litigation counsel to SunEdison, Inc. for purposes of evaluating potential avoidance actions and other causes of action concerning its Yieldcos

Lead counsel to the Ad Hoc Bondholder Group of Colt Holdings Company in connection with it’s successful advancement of a hostile DIP Financing proposal and subsequent negotiation and documentation of a plan of reorganization where it’s member provided $50 million in exit financing through a stapled rights offering

Counsel to Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Lenders in connection with the pre-arranged bankruptcy plan of Millennium Lab Holdings

Lead counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Six Flags, Inc. in successful enterprise valuation litigation leading to confirmation of an alternative plan

Lead US counsel to several institutions which hold Lehman Brothers Treasury Company B.V. notes, which are guaranteed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., in connection with the resolution of their complex note claims and treatment under reorganization plans in the Lehman US and Dutch insolvency proceedings

Led finance team on Hologic, Inc.’s $2.8 billion senior secured credit facilities and $1 billion high yield note issuance related to its merger with Gen-Probe Inc

As counsel to Second Lien Trustee in Synagro Technologies, Inc., negotiated a Chapter 11 plan involving a sale of the stock in the company that yielded significant value for second lien noteholders. The Synagro restructuring was a recipient of the “Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (Over $100mm to $1 Billion) Award” at the 2014 M&A 8th Annual Turnaround Awards

Developed the legal theories used by several funds which held participation interests in the Atlantis Casino to obtain an injunction from the Delaware Chancery Court blocking implementation of a debt-for-equity exchange and then re-negotiate more favorable terms for such exchange

As counsel to a group of convertible noteholders of Central European Distribution Corporation, structured and documented high yield notes issued by a Russian entity secured by stock in a US subsidiary, issued pursuant to a plan of reorganization

Part of Brown Rudnick team representing the Official Creditors’ Committee of Lyondell-Basel, Inc. particularly in connection with an $8 billion debtor-in-possession financing

As counsel to the Official Creditors’ Committee in Green Field Energy Services, Inc., formulated and developed causes of action which were adopted by the Examiner

Lead counsel to Stanley/Black & Decker on several accounts receivable securitizations

As counsel to Trustee and ad hoc committee of First Lien Noteholders in pre-petition Delaware Chancery Court action and subsequent Chapter 11 proceedings of Calpine Corporation, coordinated litigation regarding company’s misuse of collateral sale proceeds and make-whole premium dispute

Lead counsel to senior secured lenders in connection with bankruptcy proceedings, including those of, among others, The Walking Company, GI Joes, Inc., Shoe Pavilion, Museum Company, Weathervane, People’s Pottery and San Francisco Music Box and to Wilmington Trust Company, as Second Lien Trustee in Brookstone

Lead counsel to an ad hoc committee of second lien lenders in the out-of-court restructuring of Environmental Systems Products Holdings, Inc., resulting in their acquisition of 100% equity interest through a debt-for-equity exchange and provision of new first and second lien credit facilities

Lead counsel to an ad hoc committee of convertible noteholders of Sirius/XM Satellite Radio in enforcing their rights in connection with a change of control challenge to the XM / Sirius merger and follow-up debt-for-debt exchange offers

Represented significant creditor or equity constituencies in, among others, Exide Technologies (I), Dolan Company, Endeavor International, Venoco , Delta Petroleum and Interstate Bakeries, Chapter 11 cases

Represented fantasy sports operator in conjunction with formation of special purpose entity to comply with various state regulations

Represented fortune 200 corporation and other issuers in securitizations of receivables and other asset classes