Distressed Asset Sales & Acquisitions

  • Represented an 86-store specialty gift retail chain operating across 7 states, with approximately 2,000 employees, as a debtor in possession in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Successfully filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to sell the assets of the company as a going concern to a new buyer pursuant to a section 363 sale, without any store closings or employee layoffs.
  • Representation of Synata Bio, Inc., a bio-based renewable energy company, as the winning bidder in a bankruptcy auction of a cellulosic ethanol plant and electricity cogeneration facility in Hugoton, Kansas.
  • Representation of numerous distressed real estate investment funds in acquisitions of commercial real estate under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
  • Represented a large radiology practice in the successful purchase of several other radiology practices under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code in Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
  • Representation of Smyths toys in its acquisition of the Toys"R"Us central European business in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
  • Representation of K.D. Pharma as buyer in the Sancilio Pharmaceuticals bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the District of Delaware.
  • Representation of the debtor, a coated paper manufacturer, in a chapter 11 bankruptcy that resulted in a sale of substantially all of the debtor’s assets at a final price 64% above the stalking horse bid.
  • Representation of venture fund acquirer of assets of in Ultura, Inc. et al bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the District of Delaware.