Litigation

• Cryptocurrency / Energy – defend energy counterparty of debtors in breach of contract, fraudulent transfer, unjust enrichment, and turnover adversary proceeding
• Real Estate – successfully defended breach of contract and declaratory judgment action in New York state court
• Private Equity – advised individual and entity creditors facing potential fraudulent transfer and conspiracy claims asserted by chapter 7 trustee
• Power – successfully defended against preference action in adversary proceeding
• Private Lending / Energy – represented small business debtor’s two largest commercial creditors that held contingent, unliquidated, and disputed claims arising from ongoing federal court litigation

Chapter 11

• Enviva Inc. – investigate potential claims and causes of action arising from pre-bankruptcy transactions of debtor-company, the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets
• TPC Group Inc. – represented a leading U.S. chemical processing company in a successful reorganization, raising $450 million of new capital and eliminating approximately $1.3 billion in funded debt obligations and mass tort liabilities
• Bristow Group Inc. – represented global helicopter company in reorganization of $1.6 billion of debt, eliminating over $900 million of debt, reprofiling aircraft fleet leases and aircraft secured debt facilities, implementing employee incentive plans, and raising $535 million of fresh capital—in under six months and without any disruption in worldwide operations
• Paradox Resources, LLC – represented buyer in successful 363 sale process of substantially all assets (including major gas plant and 500-mile pipeline) of debtors, a midstream helium processing and carbon capture company
• Core Scientific Inc. – represented key contract counterparty in successfully negotiating settlement of claims arising from mechanic’s and materialman’s liens on cryptocurrency debtors’ assets
• Celsius Network LLC – represented key contract counterparty in negotiating assumed and amended agreement, avoiding litigation, and navigating chapter 11 examiner process

Advisement

• Technology – strategic advisement to distressed company on the verge of chapter 11 filing
• Energy / Technology – advisement to international companies with U.S. contract counterparties or affiliates facing insolvency and/or contemplating a U.S. bankruptcy
• Oil & Gas / Energy – guidance for drafting agreements to protect rights in counterparty bankruptcy
• Real Estate – advisement to creditors considering involuntary chapter 11 against debtor
• Retail – analysis of debt documents with focus on debt baskets, covenants, and events of default
• Energy – advisement regarding effect of decades old chapter 11 case on current asbestos liabilities

Pro Bono

• Represent LGBTQ asylum seekers from Guatemala and Jamaica in federal immigration court
• Represent transgender prisoners in pursuing § 1983 Eighth Amendment and ADA claims in multiple federal district courts
• Represent a disabled, elderly veteran in her chapter 7 bankruptcy
• Represented a mentally ill prisoner in his appeal to the Fifth Circuit of district court’s dismissal of § 1983 Eighth Amendment and ADA suit
• Defended a blind elderly woman in a reverse mortgage dispute, preventing foreclosure of her home