Practice IV · Litigation leverage in distressed capital structures
Restructuring & Special Situations
Chapter 11 litigation, fraudulent-transfer actions, plan fights, and distressed M&A — for creditors, committees, trustees, and investors who need trial lawyers, not just deal lawyers, at the table.
How we practice it
Restructurings are negotiations conducted in the shadow of litigation. Valuation fights, lien challenges, make-whole disputes, and avoidance actions decide who gets paid — and the parties with credible trial counsel set the agenda. We appear in the major restructuring venues for ad hoc groups, official committees, litigation trusts, and distressed investors.
Because the firm carries none of the lender-side conflicts of a full-service platform, we regularly take the adverse positions — against agent banks, sponsors, and insiders — that conflict other firms out of the room.
Representative matters
Fictional matters shown on a sample site — and past results never guarantee a future outcome.
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$175M fraudulent-transfer recovery
Lead counsel to a post-confirmation litigation trust; recovered $175 million from insiders and affiliates after a nine-day trial.
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Plan confirmed over sponsor objection
Represented an ad hoc bondholder group holding $800M in notes; our plan was confirmed and the group took control of the reorganized company.
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Make-whole premium sustained
Won a ruling enforcing a disputed make-whole worth roughly $95 million to our noteholder clients.