Jones Day
Client SatisfactionJones Day‘s business restructuring and reorganization practice provides services in restructurings and bankruptcies across the US and globally, with the team advising a range of parties including debtors, lenders, creditors, shareholders and asset purchasers. The firm saw success in the matter of Diebold Nixdorf, where the team represented Diebold in connection with the first recognition by a Uh bankruptcy court of a proceeding taking place under the new Dutch restructuring law and a plan of reorganization approved by a Dutch bankruptcy court. Global head of the practice Heather Lennox is based in New York and Cleveland and has represented a range of debtors and creditors in restructurings both in-court and out-of-court, while, also in New York, Corinne Ball has a focus on corporate reorganizations and distressed acquisitions. Based in Los Angeles, Bruce Bennett represents clients in large corporate reorganizations in a variety of industries including gaming and aviation.
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Key clients
- Diocese of Rockville Centre
- LTL Management LLC, an affiliate of Johnson & Johnson
- Fidelity Management and Research Company and other secured creditors of Sanchez Energy Corporation
- Aldrich Pump LLC and Murray Boiler LLC
- Bestwall LLC, an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific LLC
- DBMP LLC, an affiliate of CertainTeed LLC
- Endo Non-RSA First Lien Lenders
- Diebold Nixdorf, Inc.
- Langur Maize, LLC, (Incora Creditors)
- Centre Lane Partners, LLC
- Cleveland Guardians Baseball Company, LLC
- Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC
- Cóndor Inversiones SpA
- Jefferies Finance LLC
- Intelsat Jackson Crossover Ad Hoc Group
Work highlights
- Represented Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated ("Diebold") and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries (the “Debtors”) in connection with (i) the pre-packaged chapter 11 cases of In re Diebold Holding Company, LLC, et al. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Bankruptcy Court”); (ii) the Dutch Scheme, commenced by Diebold Nixdorf Dutch Holding B.V. (the “Dutch Issuer”) in the District Court of Amsterdam (the “Dutch Court”); and (iii) the chapter 15 proceedings before the Bankruptcy Court commenced by the foreign representative of the Dutch Issuer.
- Represented LTL Management LLC in its chapter 11 bankruptcy cases filed on October 14 2021, , and April 4, 2023, respectively.
- Represented a group of lenders with respect to their minority holdings of first lien term loans in the restructuring of Endo International and its affiliates.
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Heather Lennox