Select Unsecured Creditor Representations

Some of our significant representations of informal groups of unsecured bondholders, noteholders, institutional investors and trade creditors in chapter 11 cases and other restructurings include:

• An ad hoc group of senior noteholders of Ambac Financial Group, a holding company whose affiliates provided financial guarantees and financial services to clients in both the public and private sectors around the world (S.D.N.Y.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of American Banknote Corporation, a security printing, transaction cards and systems company (S.D.N.Y.)
• The tendering noteholders of the second largest U.S. coal producer, Arch Coal in an action against the directing lenders (E.D. Mo.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Ascent Resources – Utica, LLC, an independent natural gas and oil company and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascent Resources, LLC that is focused on the acquisition, development and production of unconventional natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil resources in the Utica Shale play in eastern Ohio
• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Atlas Resource Partners, L.P., a publicly traded exploration and production master limited partnership with operations in basins across the U.S., in connection with a prepackaged chapter 11 reorganization (S.D.N.Y.)
• An ad hoc group of first lien lenders of Avaya Inc., a Santa Clara-based global telecommunications company (S.D.N.Y.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc., a producer of ethanol (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of BPZ Resources, Inc., a publicly-traded Texas oil company that explores and produces oil and gas on 1.9 million acres offshore and onshore in Peru and in Ecuador (S. D. Tex.)
• An ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders of CHC Group, one of the largest global commercial helicopter service companies, with major operations in six continents (N.D. Tex.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Desarolladora Homex, S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican homebuilder (first company to file and receive court approval for a pre-pack bankruptcy under Mexico’s new insolvency regime)
• The ad hoc group of subordinated noteholders of Dex Media, Inc., a Texas-based marketing and directory company (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Energy Future Holdings/TXU Corp., a privately-held company that manages a portfolio of regulated and unregulated companies that generate, transmit and sell electrical power in the Texas utility market (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc noteholder group of Erickson Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based helicopter operator traded on the NASDAQ (N.D Tex.)
• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Frontier Communications Corp., a telecommunications company in the U.S.
• The ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited, an international ship owning company (S.D.N.Y.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of H. Donnelley, then the country's third-largest print and online Yellow Pages publisher (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Harry & David Holdings, Inc., a leading direct mail marketer of gift baskets (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Hercules Offshore, Inc.
• An ad hoc group of secured noteholders of Horsehead Holdings Corp, the largest zinc producer in the U.S. (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Inversiones Alsacia, S.A., a Chilean bus operator (S.D.N.Y.)
• The ad hoc group of bondholders of Invitel – Magyar Telecom B.V. (Matel), the second-largest fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet service provider in Hungary
• An ad hoc group of bondholders of Lazy Days RV Supercenter, Inc., the world’s largest single site retailer of recreational vehicles (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history (S.D.N.Y.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Milagro Oil & Gas, an independent oil and gas company that operates along the onshore Gulf Coast area, primarily in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi (D. Del.)
• The ad hoc group of bondholders of MTS Incorporated/Tower Records, one of the nation’s largest independent entertainment retailers (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of NII Holdings, Inc., the Latin American arm of the telecommunications company Nextel (S.D.N.Y.)
• The unsecured noteholders of Northern Oil and Gas, Inc., the leading non-operator franchise in the Bakken and Three Fork plays in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, in an out of court restructuring.
• The ad hoc group of senior unsecured noteholders of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the nation's largest utility (N.D. Cal.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Parker Drilling Company, a Houston-based oil field services provider (S.D. Tex.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Portola Packaging, Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of tamper-evident plastic closures and plastic containers for the food industry (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Stone Energy Corporation in connection with the restructuring of the Louisiana-based oil and gas company (S.D. Tex.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of Stone Energy Corporation, an exploration and production company operating in the Gulf of Mexico (S.D. Tex.)
• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Trident Exploration Corp., a private, independent natural gas production company principally focused on the exploration for and exploitation of unconventional natural gas resources, primarily in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of noteholders of USEC, Inc., a producer of enriched uranium for nuclear power plants (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Visteon Corp., a leading global automotive supplier (D. Del.)
• An ad hoc group of certain unaffiliated holders of senior unsecured notes of Weatherford International plc, one of the world's largest oilfield services firms (S.D. Tex.)