In addition, Brad advises credit and private equity fund clients in connection with strategic acquisitions or dispositions of distressed assets. Brad’s restructuring experience includes complex multijurisdictional and cross-border matters, spanning multiple industries including healthcare, retail, energy, technology, hospitality, media, airlines, aircraft manufacturing, telecom and heavy machinery.

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• Represented an affiliate of EQT Corporation, a leading integrated energy company, in connection with its strategic $527 million acquisition of Stone Energy Corporation’s Appalachian assets through a competitive bankruptcy auction overseen by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas*
• Represented Avaya Inc., a leading multinational technology company, in its Chapter 11 cases involving more than $6 billion in funded debt obligations, with annual revenues in excess of $3 billion*
• Represented Dex Media, Inc., an industry-leading international media and marketing company, with $2.5 billion of funded debt obligations, in connection with its Chapter 11 cases*
• Represented Oro Negro, a Mexican offshore drilling company, in its Norwegian bond merger process*
• Represented Sabine Oil & Gas, an independent oil and gas exploration production company, with $2.6 billion in outstanding funded debt obligations, in connection with its Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of New York. The successful restructuring was awarded “Large Company Transaction of the Year” by the Turnaround Management Association in 2017*
• Represented GSE Environmental, Inc., a global manufacturer and marketer of geosynthetic lining solutions, in connection with its prearranged Chapter 11 cases, in which the company’s secured creditors agreed to equitize $170 million in funded debt. GSE’s Chapter 11 plan of reorganization was confirmed in less than 3 months after filing*
• Represented YRC Worldwide, Inc., one of the largest less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation businesses operating in North America and China, with all aspects of its successful and comprehensive refinancing of over $1.1 billion in secured indebtedness and a $300 million debt for equity conversion of certain of its convertible notes*
• Represented Platinum Energy Solutions Inc., a Houston, Texas based oilfield services provider, in a successful out-of-court restructuring including an exchange offer for Platinum’s 14.25% senior secured notes, the retirement of more than 55% of Platinum’s debt, and the elimination of more than $90 million of contingent and other liabilities*
• Represented Hawker Beechcraft, Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of business, special mission, light attack, and trainer aircraft, in its prearranged Chapter 11 cases. Prior to filing, the Beechcraft reached an agreement with multiple senior secured lenders and senior bondholders on a financial restructuring plan that would equitize $2.5 billion of funded debt and avoid $125 million of annual interest expense. The successful restructuring was awarded “Mega Company Turnaround of the Year” by the Turnaround Management Association in 2013*
• Represented MS Resorts, a luxury hotel portfolio consisting of five iconic resort properties, with related real estate properties in its Chapter 11 reorganization of approximately $1.9 billion of liabilities. The hotel portfolio included: the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa; the La Quinta Resort & Club and PGA West; the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa; the Doral Golf Resort & Spa; and the Claremont Hotel Club & Spa. The restructuring included a section 363 sale of the Doral to an affiliate of the Trump Organization*
• Represented DBSD North America, Inc., a development-stage enterprise that was designing and developing an integrated satellite and terrestrial services network to deliver wireless satellite communications services, in its Chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York*
• Represented InSight Health Services Corp., a leading medical diagnostic imaging services provider in their prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring, which converted to equity the InSight’s senior secured notes and eliminated approximately $300 million of debt*
• Represented North American Petroleum Corporation USA, an independent exploration and production company, that predominantly engages in unconventional well drilling operations for natural gas extraction, in the reorganization of its operations and debt and the implementation of a restructuring transaction through domestic Chapter 11 cases and a concurrent Canadian recognition proceeding*
• Represented Neff Corp., a leading heavy equipment rental company, in a prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring involving approximately $600 million in indebtedness. The successful restructuring was awarded “Mid-Size Company Transaction of the Year” by the Turnaround Management Association in 2011*
• Represented Japan Airlines Corporation, Asia’s largest air carrier, as international restructuring counsel advising on all aspects of the restructuring of its global operations and representation in connection with Chapter 15 cases before the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York*

*Matters handled previously to joining McDermott

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