Felicia Gerber Perlman

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Felicia Gerber Perlman focuses her practice on complex business reorganizations, debt restructurings and insolvency matters. She is the Global Head of the Firm’s Business Restructuring Practice Group. Felicia advises debtors, creditors, lenders, investors, sellers, purchasers and other parties-in-interest in all stages of restructuring transactions, from Chapter 11 reorganizations to out-of-court negotiations, workouts and acquisitions. She frequently presents on bankruptcy topics and is featured in several notable publications.

Referenzmandate

Represented Wellpath Holdings, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in their chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Wellpath is the leading provider of healthcare to vulnerable patients in challenging clinical environments and had debt obligations of approximately $650 million as of the chapter 11 filing. The representation included a court-approved sale of Wellpath’s Recovery Solutions division for a purchase price of $395 million and the reorganization of Wellpath’s Corrections business. Wellpath filed its chapter 11 cases with a restructuring support agreement signed by 85% of its first-lien lenders and more than 80% of its second-lien lenders, through which Wellpath secured an approximately $326 million debtor-in-possession financing facility. McDermott negotiated and Wellpath issued, upon exit, a $135 million first lien takeback credit facility and $50 million equity investment from a group of first- and second-lien lenders
Represented Quorum Health Corporation in its pre-packaged Chapter 11 cases involving the restructuring of approximately $1.5 billion of funded debt. The successful restructuring took place during the Covid-19 pandemic and ultimately resulted in the successful deleveraging of Quorum’s balance sheet by approximately $500 million. This work was awarded the Pre-Pack Restructuring of the Year – Large Markets recognition as part of Global M&A Network’s 13th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards

Represented Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. in its prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York*
Represented Dendreon Corporation in its Chapter 11 reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware*
Represented Millennium Health, LLC in its voluntary prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware*
Represented LifeCare Holdings, Inc., an operator of long-term acute care hospitals, and its debtor affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware*
Represented the unsecured creditors’ committee of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, in its Chapter 11 reorganization*
Represented VeraSun Energy Corp., one of the nation’s largest producers of ethanol, in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization and the sale of its business*
Represented Comdisco, Inc., a global provider of technology and other equipment and services, in its Chapter 11 reorganization*
Represented Enesco International, Inc., a leader in the designing, manufacturing and marketing of licensed and propriety branded giftware, in its Chapter 11 case*
Represented Favorite Brands International, Inc., a manufacturer of candies and confectioneries, in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization and the sale of its business*
Represented McLeodUSA Incorporated, one of the nation’s largest independent telecommunications service providers, in its prepackaged Chapter 11 filing*
Represented Montgomery Ward, LLC, one of the nation’s largest retail organizations, in its Chapter 11 reorganization*
Represented Orius Corp., a nationwide provider of technical expertise and comprehensive network and infrastructure solutions to the telecommunications and broadband industries, in its prepackaged Chapter 11 case*
Represented Reliant Resources, Inc., a provider of electricity and related services, in its successful out-of-court restructuring*
Represented Tokheim Corporation, the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and seller of electronic and mechanical petroleum marketing and sales systems in its prepackaged bankruptcy, as well as in its subsequent Chapter 11 case resulting in the sale of its US and international operations*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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Auszeichnungen

Best Lawyers in America, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation – Bankruptcy, 2008-2025
Chambers USA, Band 2 in Bankruptcy/Restructuring, 2009-2024
Legal 500 US, Recommended, Restructuring (including bankruptcy), Corporate, 2021-2024
Thomson Reuters, Stand-out Lawyer – independently rated lawyers, 2023-2025
Global Restructuring Review GRR 30, Recommended, 2024
Global Restructuring Review GRR 100, Recommended, 2023

Mitgliedschaften

Board of Directors of Chicago Sinfonietta, member of the executive committee
Women in Law Empowerment Forum, member
Chicago Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law Firms, member

Qualifikation

Education
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, JD, 1992
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, BSE, 1989
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, BA, 1989

Courts/Agencies
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Admissions
Illinois