Alan McCormick

Ligado Networks LLC — Representation of an ad hoc group of crossholders of more than $4 billion in principal amount of debt and equity in Ligado Networks LLC (“Ligado”), a leading satellite communications company, in Ligado’s prearranged Chapter 11 case filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”). Ligado filed for bankruptcy with a restructuring support agreement (“RSA”) in place that is supported by holders of nearly 90% of the company’s $7.8 billion of aggregate funded indebtedness and a significant portion of its equity. The RSA provides for the conversion of existing debt into new preferred equity, the preservation of the existing interests in the capital structure below the new preferred equity, a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile Inc. in respect of spectrum usage rights, and the preservation of Ligado’s $39 billion takings claim against the U.S. government. In addition, the Bankruptcy Court approved a $940 million multi-draw debtor-in-possession credit facility funded in part by the ad hoc group of crossholders that provides Ligado with access to new money financing and will refinance certain of Ligado’s existing debt.

Tupperware Brands Corporation — Representation of Tupperware Brands Corporation and its debtor affiliates (“Tupperware”) in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Tupperware, an iconic American brand founded in 1947, entered Chapter 11 with approximately $810 million in funded debt. Through its Chapter 11 cases, Tupperware sold its brand name and core operating assets to a group of secured lenders in a transaction that will allow Tupperware to continue operating under new ownership with a right-sized footprint. The transaction will also enable Tupperware to preserve numerous employee, sales force, customer and vendor relationships.

PGX Holdings, Inc. — Representation of PGX Holdings, Inc. and 11 of its affiliates (collectively, “PGX”) along with their associated law firm known as Lexington Law Firm (together with PGX, the “Debtors”) in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware filed on June 4, 2023. The Debtors provide credit repair services and credit monitoring to approximately 130,000 customers. The Debtors had approximately $423 million of funded debt and were defendants in a lawsuit by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) seeking monetary damages in excess of $2.7 billion. Through the Chapter 11 cases, the Debtors raised $19.925 million in new-money debtor-in-possession financing, entered into two stalking horse purchase agreements (one for PGX and one for Lexington Law), conducted a comprehensive marketing process, negotiated a global settlement with the official committee of unsecured creditors, and settled their lawsuit with the CFPB. On September 28, 2023, the Debtors consummated two sale transactions by which the Debtors sold substantially all of their assets as a going concern to their stalking horse bidders.

WeWork, Inc. — Representation of WeWork, Inc. and its debtor affiliates — the leading global flexible space provider — in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. With approximately $17 billion in funded debt and lease obligations at the time of filing and posing complex, novel issues of international, regulatory, and foreign law, WeWork, with over 500 entities, is one of the largest jointly administered Chapter 11 cases in history. WeWork is prosecuting its Chapter 11 cases pursuant to a restructuring support agreement with holders representing approximately 96% of its secured notes and 100% of its secured letter of credit facility obligations. The agreement provides for the elimination of approximately $3 billion of WeWork’s funded debt and allows WeWork to rationalize its global commercial lease portfolio by rejecting unprofitable locations while reinvesting in its trophy properties.

Rite Aid Corporation — Representation of Rite Aid Corporation (“Rite Aid”) and 119 of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Rite Aid entered its Chapter 11 cases with $3.45 billion in debtor-in possession financing. Following months of negotiations including court-ordered mediation with all of Rite Aid’s key stakeholders, as well as several bet-the-company disputes and obtaining an additional $75 million in debtor-in-possession financing later in the cases, Rite Aid was able to delever its balance sheet by approximately $2 billion through a recapitalization transaction with its senior secured noteholders and resolve more than $2.5 billion in pending and threatened litigation. Rite Aid emerged from Chapter 11 on August 30, 2024 with $2.975 billion in committed exit financing, a new go-forward supply contract with McKesson (Rite Aid’s largest vendor and the provider of 98% of Rite Aid’s just-in-time prescriptions), settlement agreements or controlled substance injunctive terms with the Department of Justice and 15 states in which Rite Aid conducts business, and a leaner, more efficient real estate footprint.

URS Parent Corporation — Representation of URS Parent Corporation, a leading vehicle transportation and logistics services provider, and certain of its affiliates in an out-of-court debt exchange and rights offering that eliminated $365 million of outstanding funded debt and raised new capital through an equity rights offering. The company obtained the support of 100% of the company’s lenders and its equity sponsor though a dual-track solicitation process, under which the company simultaneously solicited consents for an out-of-court debt exchange and votes in favor of a prepackaged restructuring.

WeWork Inc. — Representation of WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE), a global flexible space provider, in connection with a comprehensive restructuring of its capital structure through a series of transactions with an ad hoc group of noteholders representing more than 60% of the company’s public notes, a third-party investor and affiliates of SoftBank Group Corp., which will be implemented through certain exchanges of $1.2 billion of WeWork’s existing unsecured notes for new debt and equity securities and the issuance of $675 million of new secured notes for cash. Collectively, the transactions will reduce WeWork’s net debt by approximately $1.5 billion at closing, extend a significant maturity wall from 2025 to 2027, and result in new funding and new and rolled capital commitments of more than $1 billion once completed.

Cineworld Group plc — Representation of Cineworld Group plc and 104 of its debtor affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, Cineworld, the parent company of Regal Entertainment Group, is the second-largest cinema chain in the world, operating over 9,100 screens at nearly 750 cinemas in 10 countries worldwide. Cineworld commenced its Chapter 11 cases with approximately $5.1 billion in funded debt and commitments from an ad hoc group of prepetition lenders to provide nearly $2 billion in debtor-in-possession financing.

Aearo Technologies LLC — Representation of Aearo Technologies LLC and its debtor affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Aearo Technologies is a market leader in the energy control space, providing custom noise, vibration, thermal, and shock protection solutions to the aerospace, commercial vehicle, heavy equipment, and electronics industries. Aearo Technologies and its non-Debtor parent 3M are defendants in the largest multi-district litigation in history, with over 230,000 personal injury claims filed related to certain historical Aearo products.

Team, Inc. (NYSE: TISI) — Representation of a global provider of integrated, digitally enabled asset performance assurance and optimization solutions, in connection with a restructuring of its financing arrangements, including entry into an ABL facility with a $130 million revolver from Eclipse Business Capital LLC and a $35 million second-out delayed draw term loan from Corre Partners Management, LLC. 

Premiere Global Services, Inc. — Representation of Premiere Global Services, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries in connection with an out-of-court restructuring by which PGi’s first lien lenders consensually foreclosed upon and sold the equity of Premiere Global Services, Inc. to a third-party buyer. The transaction resulted in mutual releases between the Company’s’ first lien lenders and the Company and related parties and an incremental financing commitment from the Company’s first lien lenders. 

Gulfport Energy Corporation — Representation of Gulfport Energy Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Gulfport is an independent returns-oriented, gas-weighted exploration and development company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States, with significant acreage positions in Ohio and Oklahoma. The restructuring eliminated more than $1.2 billion of funded debt obligations, secured $50 million of new capital through a backstopped rights offering and $580 million in new exit financing, and right-sized Gulfport’s go-forward midstream contract obligations, positioning Gulfport as a viable and strengthened enterprise post-emergence.