Mayer Brown‘s New York and Chicago-based restructuring practice is noted for their creditor and debtor based practice, having handled numerous matters for clients in the banking and finance industry, alongside energy, infrastructure and healthcare. Brian Trust co-heads the practice and is experienced on cross-border and out-of-court restructurings, while Joaquin de Baca combines transactional and litigation expertise to represent both debtors and creditors in-court and out-of-court workouts and reorganization proceedings. Sean Scott is skilled in insolvency matters and acts on behalf of companies and boards of directors, whereas Louis Chiapetta handles litigation aspects of bankruptcy cases. Josh Gross is a name to watch.
Testimonials
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‘The Mayer Brown Restructuring practice is a highly competent group of professionals who have been an excellent partner on a number of complex restructuring engagements. In addition to high quality legal expertise, they are excellent at thinking strategically about certain case issues and the appropriate cadence with other non-client stakeholders.’
‘Joaquin C De Baca, Brian Trust and Lisa Holl Chang have been a pleasure to work with over the past 12 months. Accurate legal analysis, strategic thinking and high quality client management has been the standard across the board of the MB team.’
Key clients
- Barclays
- Forever Energy
- GLAS USA LLC & GLAS Americas LLC
- GWG Holdings, Inc.
- U.S. Bank
- Stillwater Funds
- Wilmington Trust, National Association
Work highlights
- Represented MUFG Union Bank, as administrative agent under a prepetition credit facility with Salem Harbor Power Development LP (the “Borrower-Debtor”), the holding company of a power plant facility in Salem Harbor, Massachusetts, in the chapter 11 case, as well as the New York state court litigation.
- Representing PNC Bank, NA, as administrative agent, in a trade receivables securitization facility which provides $200M of financing for Air Methods.
- Served as lead restructuring counsel for GWG Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates (GWG), a publicly-traded life settlements and alternative investments company, in GWG’s plan confirmation and successful emergence from Chapter 11, resolving more than $2.1 billion in debt.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Brian Trust, Matt Wargin, Sean Scott