Christopher M. Gores, P.C. focuses his practice on public and private debt offerings, securitization transactions and secured financings. Most recently, he has represented issuers and underwriters for secured and unsecured registered debt, Rule 144A offerings and Regulation S offerings for both domestic and foreign issuers and in reorganization transactions.

Mr. Gores' transaction experience in public debt offerings, Rule 144A offerings and Regulation S offerings includes the following—

• an aggregate of $1 billion of Loan Participation Notes issued by, but without recourse to, banks in four offerings, for the sole purpose of funding four loans to a Russian communications company; $68 million of 5.5 percent Senior Convertible Notes due 2005 of that telecommunications company, which are convertible into American Depositary Shares of that telecommunications company; and 4,417,192 American Depositary Shares of that telecommunications company (represented the telecommunications company)
• $400 million of 11 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2006 and $400 million of 11 3/8 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2009 of a finance company, the proceeds of which were lent to a marine drilling rig company; and $200 million of 12¼ percent Senior Notes due 2006 of the marine drilling company; and 300,000 Units consisting of 300,000 shares of 13 3/8 percent Senior Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and Warrants to Purchase 10.5 million shares of Common Stock of the marine drilling rig company (represented the sole initial purchaser)
• $500 million of 5.625 percent Senior Notes due 2014 and $450 million of 6.50 percent Senior Notes due 2017 of a Belgian holding company the funds from which, together with $100 million of bank borrowings were used to fund a cash tender offer in priority of three tranches of public debt of a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary.
• $700 million of 1.75 percent Convertible Senior Notes due 2013 together with Convertible Note Hedges and Warrants for up to 8.9 million shares of the common stock of a data systems company
• an aggregate of $3.05 billion of Senior Note Offerings in nine separate offerings in 2003 and 2004; €650 million of 6.5 percent Notes due 2005; $250 million of Floating Rate Notes due 2002; $750 million of 7.875 percent Notes due 2005 and $750 million of 6.25 percent Senior Notes due 2011 of a broadcasting company (represented the broadcasting company)
• $150 million of 7.55 percent Notes due 2007 and $150 million of 8.05 percent Notes due 2027; $600 million of 7.35 percent Notes due 2006; $1.1 billion of 8.125 percent Notes due 2011; $900 million of 9 percent Debentures due 2031 of a grocer (represented the grocer)
• $100 million of Floating Rate Contingent Convertible Senior Notes due 2024; $150 million of 3.75 percent Contingent Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 and $175 million of 8⅞ percent Senior Notes due 2007 of an energy company (represented respective initial purchasers)
• €305 million of 10 5/8 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2011 of a Swedish holding company, secured by all of the capital stock of, and an intercompany subordinated loan of the net proceeds of the offering to, one of Europe's largest oil refining companies and largest Swedish oil company; and €100 million of 97 percent Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 issued by the Swedish oil company and guaranteed by the holding company (represented the holding company and the oil company).

Representative recent restructuring include the following—

• $1.983 billion of 5.908 percent Senior Notes due 2007, $1.983 billion of 6.888 percent Senior Notes due 2009 and $1.699 billion of 7.735 percent Senior Notes due 2014 issued pursuant to a plan to reorganize a team of MCI, Inc. (successor to WorldCom, Inc.) (represented unsecured creditors committee)
• $247.3375 million of 13 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2011 issued for holders of 10½ percent Senior Notes due 2011 and $200 million of 15⅜ percent/14 percent Senior Subordinated Toggle Notes due 2017, each of which were issued pursuant to a prepackaged plan of reorganization of a fitness company (represented noteholders committee)
• $101 million of 6.50 percent Senior Secured Convertible Debentures due September 30, 2022, of a property and casualty insurance holding company, $84 million of which were issued in an exchange offer to holders of then-outstanding 4.25 percent Convertible Debentures due September 30, 2022, of that company and $15 million of which were issued to new investors (represented noteholders committee)
• $106 million of Senior Subordinated Secured Increasing Rate Notes due 2008 issued pursuant to a plan of reorganization to holders of the then-outstanding 11¼ percent Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 to health care company (represented noteholders committee)
• $120 million of 11 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2008 issued pursuant to a plan of reorganization to holders of the then-outstanding public debt of a telecommunications company (represented noteholders committee)
• U.S. $377 million of new 10.625 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2008 issued by Call-Net Enterprises Inc. pursuant to a Plan of Arrangement pursuant to the Canadian Business Corporations Act as part consideration for the surrender of all of the then-outstanding public debt (approximately U.S. $1.6 billion) of a Canadian telecommunications company.

Representative securitization transactions include the following—

• sale of a royalty interest based on gross sales of restaurants for 14 months for $93.976,491 million
• $106 million of senior classes of Collateralized MBS Funding Notes, Series 2004-1 issued by BFC Trust, Series 2004-1, the proceeds of which were utilized to purchase two pools of mortgage pass-through certificates from Mortgage Opportunity Funding B LLC, which pools were purchased from Mortgage Opportunity Fund L.P.
• $105 million Natural Gas Inventory Forward Sale Agreement, the proceeds of which were used in part to repay a loan incurred to purchase 100 percent of the entities, and $176,277,533 of Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2009 executed, the proceeds of which were also utilized for such purchase
• securitizations of sub-prime motor vehicle retail installed sale contract, some of which were supported by insurance policies
• securitization and related roll-up of 32 real estate limited partnerships in a transaction valued in excess of $300 million
• $82,550,000 of Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates (2 classes) in a REMIC Trust consisting of mortgage loans secured by 27 multifamily, commercial and hotel properties, which mortgage loans were deposited into the REMIC Trust
• securitization of credit card receivables of a national jewelry chain through a Credit Card Receivables Trust involving the insurance of three classes of participation certificates
• securitization of production payments, including a $340 million Hydrocarbon Production Payments.

Mr. Gores joined Akin Gump as an associate in 1973 and has been a partner since 1979. He worked from 1968 to 1969 as a research assistant to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in connection with Weinstein’s Federal Evidence (First Edition). Mr. Gores then served as a lieutenant in the JAG Corps of the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1969 to 1972, during which time he was a military prosecutor from 1969 to 1971 and was involved in treaty negotiations with Panama from 1971 to 1972.

Mr. Gores received his A.B. magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1965 and his LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1968. He is a member of the Texas and New York bars.