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Practice Areas :
Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Attorneys in Patton Boggs’ Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group have years of experience in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts, and regularly appear in bankruptcy cases throughout the country. In conjunction with the firm’s business attorneys, the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group counsels clients in properly structuring transactions in order to avoid or mitigate bankruptcy issues. Our attorneys also represent creditors in high-profile international insolvency proceedings.
The scope of the practice area covered by Patton Boggs’ Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group is extremely broad and extends from representing parties in pre-bankruptcy workouts to representing Chapter 11 debtors, debtor-in-possession lenders, official committees of unsecured creditors, bondholder committees, and secured and unsecured creditors in national and international proceedings. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing purchasers in acquisitions of businesses and assets from entities in bankruptcy, as well as in bankruptcy litigation, such as fraudulent transfers, preferences and subordination actions and related matters. We regularly counsel clients on intellectual property matters arising under the Bankruptcy Code, and also have substantial experience in bankruptcy appeals.
The Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group has received excellent results for clients in a number of challenging situations. Representative examples of our work include the following:
Representative Matters of Our Partners
Debtor Representation
- Counsel for the Debtors in In re ProxyMed Transaction Services, Inc., et al. (District of Delaware).
- Counsel for the Debtors in In re Diamond Glass, Inc., et al. (District of Delaware).
- Counsel for the Debtor in In re Southmark Corp. (Northern District of Texas).
- Counsel for the Debtors in In re Amdura, Inc., et al. (District of Colorado).
- Counsel for the Debtor in In re Fremont General Corp. (Central District of California).
- Counsel for the Debtors in In re Provident Royalties, Inc., et al. (Northern District of Texas).
- Counsel for the Debtor in In re National Heritage Foundation (Eastern District of Virginia).
- Counsel for the Debtor in In re Boylan International, Inc. (Southern District of New York).
Committee Representation
- Counsel for the Unofficial Committee of Family & Dissident GM Bondholders in In re General Motors Corp. (Southern District of New York).
- Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in In re Fluid Routing Solutions Intermediate Holding Corp., et al. (District of Delaware).
- Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors In re S-Tran Holdings, Inc., et al. (District of Delaware).
- Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in In re Lancer Partners, L.P. (Southern District of Florida).
- Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in In re Centrix Financial (District of Colorado).
- Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in In re NewComm Telecommunications (District of Puerto Rico).
Secured Creditor, DIP Lender and Other Significant Creditor Representation
- Representation of 20-member bank group with claims in excess of $800 million in one of the nation’s largest Chapter 11 proceedings of an oil and gas company, and in related $13 billion lender liability action (In re Placid Oil, Northern District of Texas).
- Representation of 10-member bank group with claims in excess of $350 million in Chapter 11 proceeding of multinational oil and gas exploration and production company (In re Forcenergy, Eastern District of Louisiana).
- Representation of secured lenders (and DIP providers) with claims in excess of $200 million in Chapter 11 proceeding of one of world’s largest milk distributors (In re Parmalat, Southern District of New York).
- Representation of bank group (and DIP providers) with claims in excess of $100 million in Chapter 11 proceeding of national transportation company (In re Vectour, Inc., District of Delaware).
- Representation of bank group with claims in excess of $100 million in Chapter 11 proceeding of machinery manufacturing company (In re Genesis, Inc., Southern District of Ohio).
- Representation of secured lenders (and DIP providers) with claims of approximately $100 million in Chapter 11 proceeding of national electrical contracting company (In re IES, Northern District of Texas).
- Representation of largest creditor in ongoing liquidation in Luxembourg, London and Cayman Islands of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
- Representation of a consortium of some of the nation’s major airports in In re U.S. Airways, Inc. (Eastern District of Virginia), In re United Airlines, Inc. (Northern District of Illinois), In re Aloha Airlines, Inc. (District of Hawaii), and In re Delta Airlines, Inc. and In re Northwest Airlines (Southern District of New York).
- Representation of leading global suppliers and other creditors in In re Delphi Automotive, In re Dana Corporation and In re Federal Mogul Corporation (District of Delaware).
- Representation of one of the largest creditors with claims in excess of $2 million in connection with the fiber optic network case In re Touch America (District of Delaware), including the negotiation of a multi-million dollar settlement agreement between Touch America, AT&T and other contractors resulting in client recoveries in excess of 100 cents on the dollar on both its secured and unsecured claims.
- Representation of the largest creditor with claims in excess of $3 million in In re Pixelligent (District of Maryland).
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