Neda Davanipour

McDermott International, Inc. — Representing McDermott International, Inc. and 225 of its subsidiaries and affiliates, including 107 foreign domiciled entities, in their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas. McDermott is a premier, global upstream and downstream engineering, procurement, construction, and installation company and employs over 42,000 individuals across 54 countries and six continents. McDermott’s prepackaged Chapter 11 cases contemplate a fully consensual restructuring transaction to be confirmed in less than 60 days that will equitize nearly all of McDermott's funded debt, eliminating over $4.6 billion of debt, and an auction process to sell McDermott’s Lummus technology business supported by a “stalking horse” bid with a base purchase price of $2.725 billion.

Furie Operating Alaska, LLC — Representing private equity / creditor investment fund in connection with a term loan facility and debtor in possession financing facility in the Chapter 11 cases of Furie Operating Alaska, LLC, Cornucopia Oil & Gas Company, LLC, and Corsair Oil & Gas LLC.

Windstream Holdings, Inc. — Representing Windstream Holdings, Inc., and its debtor subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.  Windstream is a leading provider of advanced network communications, technology, broadband, entertainment and security solutions to consumers and small businesses in 18 states.  Windstream commenced its Chapter 11 cases with $5.6 billion in prepetition funded debt and a fully committed $1 billion debtor-in-possession credit facility to support the Debtors’ businesses throughout Chapter 11.

Parker Drilling Company — Representing Parker Drilling Company and certain of its affiliates in connection with their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Parker is a leading international provider of contract drilling and drilling-related services and rental tools. Parker, together with its non-debtor affiliates, has operations in approximately 19 countries worldwide and employs over 2,400 employees. Parker’s prearranged plan of reorganization carries broad stakeholder support and proposes to reduce Parker’s funded-debt obligations by approximately $375 million and provide Parker with $95 million in fully-committed new equity capital upon emergence from Chapter 11.  

Westmoreland Coal Company — Representing Westmoreland Coal Company and certain of its affiliates (collectively, “Westmoreland”) in their Chapter 11 proceedings before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Westmoreland is the sixth largest North American coal producer, maintaining domestic coal operations in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Texas, New Mexico, and Ohio, and Canadian coal operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. At the time the cases were filed, Westmoreland had funded debt obligations of approximately $1.4 billion. Westmoreland is pursuing a sale of its mining operations and commenced its Chapter 11 cases with a restructuring support agreement entered into with a substantial majority of its key lender constituents.

Cenveo, Inc. — Representing Cenveo, Inc. and its domestic subsidiaries in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Cenveo, Inc. is a leading global provider of print and related resources headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with a worldwide distribution platform. Cenveo commenced its Chapter 11 restructuring in connection with its entry into a Restructuring Support Agreement with noteholders representing over 50% of its first lien debt and related agreements with certain of its prepetition secured creditors to provide up to $290 million in debtor-in-possession financing. These agreements permitted Cenveo to expeditiously complete its reorganization.

PES Holdings, LLC — Representing PES Holdings, LLC in its prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Headquartered in Philadelphia, PES owns and operates the largest oil refining complex on the U.S. Eastern seaboard. The refining complex, which spans 1,300 acres and has capacity to refine 335,000 barrels of crude oil per day, has been in continuous operation since the 1860s. PES’s prepackaged plan of reorganization carries universal stakeholder support and commitments for over $260 million of new capital, and will provide PES with substantially reduced debt service obligations upon emergence. PES obtained confirmation of its plan in March 2018.

EV Energy Partners, L.P. — Representing EV Energy Partners, L.P., and certain affiliates in their prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Headquartered in Houston, EVEP is a master limited partnership engaged in acquiring, producing and developing oil and natural gas properties with approximately $640 million in funded debt obligations at the time of filing. Before filing for chapter 11 to implement its restructuring, the company negotiated a restructuring support agreement with 100 percent of the lenders under its reserve-based revolving credit facility and holders of approximately 70 percent of its unsecured notes, locking in support for a comprehensive restructuring of the company’s balance sheet.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, 2016