Claire Terry

Rite Aid Corporation — Representation of Rite Aid Corporation (“Rite Aid”) and 119 of its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. As one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, Rite Aid employs over 45,000 people, including 6,100 pharmacists in 2,100 retail pharmacy locations across 17 states. Through Elixir, its pharmacy benefit management business, Rite Aid manages pharmacy benefits for more than one million members through accredited specialty and mail-order pharmacies. Following months of negotiations, Rite Aid entered Chapter 11 with access to approximately $3.45 billion in committed post-petition DIP financing provided by its existing bank lenders and an agreement in principle with a majority of its secured bondholders on the terms of a comprehensive restructuring to delever its $4 billion debt load and right-size its operational footprint.

West Marine, Inc. — Representation of West Marine, Inc. and its affiliates, the nation’s leading omnichannel provider in the marine aftermarket, in multiple transactions, including a comprehensive out-of-court restructuring of its existing capital structure supported by 100 percent of the Company’s existing lenders and its equity sponsor. The comprehensive transaction delevered the Company’s funded indebtedness by more than $500 million, provided the Company access to $125 million of new money term loan financing, and left trade claims unimpaired.

Genesis Care Pty Ltd — Representation of Genesis Care Pty Ltd and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. GenesisCare is a leading cancer care provider, offering personalized and accessible treatment across a network of highly-skilled healthcare professionals to patients globally. GenesisCare is one of the world’s largest integrated oncology organizations and the world’s largest provider of radiotherapy, operating more than 400 cancer centers in the U.S., Australia, Spain and the UK which treat more than 450,000 patients annually. As of its Chapter 11 filing, GenesisCare’s funded debt totaled approximately $1.7 billion, including approximately $1.55 billion in secured term loan indebtedness. GenesisCare commenced its Chapter 11 cases to obtain access to debtor-in-possession financing, to conduct a marketing and sale process for its U.S. assets, and to restructure its financial obligations.

Avaya Holdings Corp. — Representation of Avaya Holdings Corp. and its affiliates in their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Avaya Holdings Corp., (“Avaya”) is a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration. With overwhelming consensus from Avaya’s secured lenders and the support of its other key stakeholders, Avaya confirmed its prepackaged plan of reorganization just over a month after it commenced its Chapter 11 cases. The confirmed prepackaged plan reduced Avaya’s total debt by more than 75%, from approximately $3.4 billion to approximately $810 million, substantially increased Avaya’s liquidity position to approximately $650 million, decreased its net leverage to less than 1x, and provided substantial financial flexibility to accelerate Avaya’s investment in its innovative cloud-based communications portfolio. Avaya emerged from Chapter 11 protection as a privately held company approximately five weeks after the bankruptcy court confirmed Avaya’s prepackaged plan.

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.

Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc. — Representation of Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Voyager Digital is one of the largest cryptocurrency platforms in the world, allowing customers to buy, sell, trade, and store more than 100 cryptocurrencies and supporting over $1.3 billion in aggregate cryptocurrency holdings on the platform. Voyager’s Chapter 11 cases mark one of the first restructurings of a major cryptocurrency company. 

PSS Industrial Group — Representation of Prowler Super Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries (PSS Industrial Group), an oilfield services provider and value-added distributor in the energy and industrial industries, in connection with its out-of-court restructuring, including a complete deleveraging of over $320 million in funded debt through a UCC Article 9 foreclosure and a $55 million new money equity rights offering to fund future business growth. The consummated transaction contemplates payment in full of all vendors, suppliers and other business partners and uninterrupted fulfillment of all customer obligations. 

Envision Healthcare Corporation — Representation of Envision Healthcare Corporation, a leading provider of physician staffing services and operator of ambulatory surgical centers, in first-of-their kind liability management transactions. The transactions injected $1.1 billion of new money to Envision’s balance sheet and de-leveraged more than $1.9 billion of secured and unsecured debt obligations.  

HONX, Inc. — Representation of HONX, Inc., in its Chapter 11 case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. HONX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hess Corporation, the global energy company. HONX and its corporate predecessors have for decades been subject to ongoing asbestos-related litigation in connection with HONX’s former ownership and operation of an oil refinery on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. HONX filed its Chapter 11 case with the goal of establishing and funding a trust under section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code to resolve and pay all valid current and future asbestos-related claims asserted against HONX. 

RGN-Group Holdings, LLC — Representation of RGN-Group Holdings, LLC, and approximately 100 other debtor affiliates (Regus) in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Regus offers a network of on-demand office and co-working spaces, and ancillary service and support, to a variety of clients across a host of industries in over 1,000 locations in the United States and Canada.

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. Gulfport entered Chapter 11 with a restructuring support agreement signed by prepetition revolving credit facility lenders holding over 95% of its revolving debt obligations and noteholders holding over 70% of its senior unsecured notes. The restructuring support agreement proposes eliminating approximately $1.25 billion in funded debt obligations, provides for a $262.5 million DIP facility and $580 million in committed exit financing, and contemplates a backstopped rights offering for at least $50 million of preferred equity.