Matthew Fagen

Since joining Kirkland, Matthew’s representative matters included:

• 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.  
• PES Holdings, LLC — Represented 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.
• The Gymboree Corporation — Represented The Gymboree Corporation and certain of its affiliates in connection with their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Gymboree is one of the largest children’s apparel specialty retailers in North America, with widely recognized brands — Gymboree, Janie and Jack, and Crazy 8 — and approximately 1,300 stores worldwide. Gymboree confirmed a Chapter 11 plan that restructured over $1.1 billion of indebtedness.
• Ultra Petroleum Corp. — Represented Ultra Petroleum Corp. (“Ultra”)—a publicly-traded, independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company—in its Chapter 11 restructuring in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Ultra has historically been one of the lowest-cost operators in the domestic oil and gas industry. Ultra’s principal assets are its Pinedale Field properties in Wyoming.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Matthew’s representative matters included:

• An ad hoc group of second lien noteholders in the Chapter 11 cases of CHC Group Ltd.

• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Atlas Resource Partners, L.P.

• An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders and DIP financing backstoppers in the Chapter 11 cases of Magnum Hunter Resources Corp.

• Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc., in connection with its out-of-court restructuring.

• Debtor Allied Nevada Gold Corp. (now known as Hycroft Mining Corporation) and its affiliated debtors in their Chapter 11 cases.

• The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.

• The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Nortel Networks, Inc.

• The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Hawker Beechcraft, Inc.

Financial Restructuring Associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, 2012–2016