Headed by Dennis Dunne, Evan Fleck and Samuel Khalil, Milbank’s financial restructuring group is skilled in handling Chapter 11 cases and corporate restructurings across a wide variety of industries internationally and domestically. The team represents clients including companies in need of financial restructuring, official and ad hoc communities of creditors, hedge funds and lenders. The practice includes specialists from the firm’s Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC offices, including partners Matthew Brod and Atara Miller who were involved in serving as counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Talen Energy Supply and its affiliated debtors and debtors-in-possession. Nelly Almeida represents a range of different parties in both in- and out- of court domestic and international restructurings and distressed financings and acquisitions, whereas Michael Price has experience representing debtors, ad hoc committees and official committees of unsecured creditors. Tyson Lomazow is a key name. All lawyers mentioned are based in New York.
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‘Great top partner level team who are commercial, read the docs and are good to work with. (And nice folks, which is an added bonus.’
‘Dennis Duane allows, and his trained, his guys, Evan Fleck, Sam Khalil and Matt Brod, all of whom I would use in an instant to run deal and think independently and commercially on their matters. Larry Wee is a great addition to the team from a finance perspective. And Andy Leblanc and Samir Vora are litigators who are creative and make you feel like they are thinking through all the angles on your behalf.’
Key clients
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Arcapita Bank
- Ligado Networks LLC
- Rodan + Fields – Ad hoc group of term loan lenders
- Preferred equity holders in Celsius Networks
- Lucky Bucks Holding Restructuring
- Wesco/Incora
- Select Committee of Unsecured Creditors - Sorrento Therapeutics
- Envision Healthcare/AmSurg
- Nielsen & Bainbridge LLC – NBG Home
- Ad Hoc Group of Lenders to GTT Communications
- AMC Entertainment
- Official committee of unsecured creditors to Talen Energy Supply
- Yak Access
- Ad Hoc Committee of Lenders of Hornblower
- Lenders to Alkegen (formerly Unifrax)
Work highlights
- Advised an ad hoc group of second lien lenders to AmSurg, LLC, to provide advice regarding a restructuring of AmSurg, LLC and/or its parent, Envision Healthcare.
- Advised holders of Series B Preferred Shares issued by Celsius Network Ltd (UK) in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Celsius Network, LLC and its affiliated debtors-in-possession.
- Represented an ad hoc group of term loan lenders of GTT Communications, Inc. and its affiliates, under a credit agreement that consisted of three tranches of term loans of approximately $1.77 billion, $750 million, and $140 million and a $250 million revolver.
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