Gabe Harley

Since joining Kirkland, Gabe has been involved in the following matters:

• Altera Infrastructure L.P. — Representation of Altera Infrastructure L.P. and certain of its affiliates (“Altera”), a leading international midstream services provider to the oil and gas industry, in pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Operating a fleet of 41 vessels, Altera supplies critical infrastructure assets to its customers primarily in offshore regions of the North Sea, Brazil, and the East Coast of Canada. Altera filed for Chapter 11 with a restructuring support agreement (“RSA”) that is widely supported by Altera’s equity sponsor, Brookfield, and a super-majority of its bank lenders. The RSA contemplates, among other things, addressing more than $1 billion of secured and unsecured holding company debt, $400 million of preferred equity, and $550 million of secured asset-level bank debt, and a comprehensive reprofiling of Altera’s bank loan facilities to better align cash flow with debt service obligations.
• Olympic Entertainment — Advising an ad hoc group of bondholders on the restructuring of Olympic Entertainment Group
• Technicolor — Advising Technicolor S.A. (“Technicolor”), a Paris-based global leader in content creation to distribution for Hollywood studios, independent filmmakers, music producers, and video game and software developers in its comprehensive restructuring strategy to raise €420 million in new financing and refinance Technicolor’s existing $477.8 million and €977 million of funded debt through an accelerated financial safeguard proceeding under French law. Technicolor and its subsidiaries together employ more than 14,000 artists, experts, engineers, and innovators operating in 27 key media markets worldwide, including the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom
• Matalan — Advising the ad hoc committee of bondholders in the restructuring of Matalan, including issuance of £25m 1.5 lien notes and scheme of arrangement of the existing second lien notes
• Mamas & Papas — Advising the Mamas & Papas and Deloitte as its administrators in relation to its financial restructuring and pre-packaged administration
• Mothercare — Advising the Mothercare UK Limited and PwC as its administrators in relation to its financial restructuring and pre-packaged administration
• Toys “R” Us — Advising Toys “R” Us group, the world’s leading toy and baby products retailer, on all aspects of its global restructuring and acted for its UK business in respect of its Company Voluntary Arrangement
• Moorfields — Advising Moorfields Advisory Limited as administrators of Toys R Us Limited and liquidators of the UK business of the Toys R Us group
• Edcon — Advising Edcon Limited, a leading South African retailer in relation to its ongoing restructuring
• Lebara — Advising bondholders of the Lebara Group, a European mobile company

Prior to joining Kirkland, Gabe worked in a leading US law firm on the following matters:

• Kenya Airways — Advised Kenya Airways PLC’s USD 2.2 billion debt and equity restructuring involving negotiations with a number of creditor groups including local and international banks, aircraft operating lessors and ECAs
• Yuksel — Advised Yuksel Insaat A.S. on the restructuring of its US$200m bonds, including advising on a UK scheme of arrangement to extend and amend debt terms
• Afren — Advised Afren PLC on its capital and financial restructuring including amendments of certain interests in the group's underlying oil & gas assets