A top-notch restructuring group, capable of handling the biggest and the most difficult restructuring from either company side or creditors’ side. 
- Chambers USA, Band 1 Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Nationwide and NY)
Media, Technology & Telecommunications
Our restructuring department fields large, multidisciplinary teams that leverage the resources of our firm as a whole. We act on all sides of cutting-edge restructuring transactions across a range of industries.
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Digicel Group's Restructuring
An ad hoc group of secured and unsecured creditors of Digicel Group, the leading provider of mobile phone networks and home entertainment services in 25 markets across the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific, in its restructuring of over $5.4 billion of debt.
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Diamond Sports Group's Chapter 11 Cases
Diamond Sports Group, the nation’s largest owner of regional sports networks, in its chapter 11 cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. In connection with its filing, Diamond entered into a restructuring support agreement with the company’s creditors that would eliminate over $8 billion of its outstanding debt.
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Learfield's Recepitalization
An ad hoc group of lenders of Learfield, a collegiate sports marketing company representing over 200 collegiate properties, in an out-of-court recapitalization transaction allowing the company to reduce its outstanding debt by over $600 million and secured $150 million in new-money equity investments.
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Avaya's Prepackaged Chapter 11 Plan
An ad hoc investor group of first lien lenders of Avaya Holdings Corp., a global leader in communication and collaboration solutions, in connection with the company’s prepackaged chapter 11 plan which reduced Avaya’s total debt by more than 75% from approximately $3.4 billion to approximately $800 million.
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QualTek's Prearranged Chapter 11
An ad hoc group of first lien term loan lenders of QualTek Services, a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure services, in connection with both a prepetition financing transaction and a comprehensive restructuring effected through the company’s prearranged chapter 11 filing.
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Ongoing Chapter 11 Cases of Intelsat
An ad hoc group of holding company noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of Intelsat S.A. and its co-debtor affiliates, operator of the world’s largest and most advanced satellite fleet and connectivity infrastructure. Despite being creditors of Intelsat’s various holding companies, the ad hoc group negotiated a plan of reorganization that provided holding company creditors with approximately $400 million of value, in addition to other contingent value rights tied to Intelsat’s continued C-band spectrum clearing project.
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Out-of-Court Restructuring of IPC Systems
SVPGlobal in an out-of-court restructuring of IPC Systems, a leading provider and servicer of voice communication systems for financial companies, which included the refinancing or restructuring of more than $1 billion of funded debt obligations and a $125 million equity financing.
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Ad Hoc Group of Frontier Communications
An ad hoc group of first lien secured lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Frontier Communications, a leading telecommunications company with approximately $17.5 billion of funded debt obligations.
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LSC Communications Chapter 11 Cases
The ad hoc group of secured noteholders of LSC Communications, a provider of traditional and digital print products, in the chapter 11 cases of LSC and 21 affiliates, including in connection with the court-approved sale of substantially all of LSC’s assets to an affiliate of Atlas Holdings LLC, for cash, a credit bid of obligations under the company’s secured term loan facility and senior secured notes, at the direction of the creditors, and the assumption of certain liabilities.
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Successful Out-of-Court Restructuring of Ligado Networks
An ad hoc group of second lien lenders of telecom company Ligado Networks in Ligado’s successful out-of-court restructuring of approximately $14 billion of liabilities and issuance of $2.85 billion of 15.5% PIK Senior Secured First Lien Notes due 2023 and $1 billion of 17.5% PIK Senior Secured Notes due 2024.
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Windstream’s Chapter 11 Case
An ad hoc group of first lien lenders in (a) the chapter 11 restructuring of Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions for businesses across the U.S., with over $5 billion in funded debt obligations, and (b) the recharacterization litigation against, and $1.2 billion settlement with, Uniti, the REIT that owns most of Windstream’s network. The transaction provided for the equitization of a substantial portion of Windstream’s $3 billion in outstanding first lien indebtedness, as well as access to approximately $2 billion in new capital, and a new long term lease structure between Windstream and Uniti.
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Mood Media Corporation's Prepackaged Chapter 11
The ad hoc group of second lien noteholders and equity sponsors in the prepackaged chapter 11 restructuring of Mood Media Corporation, a global provider of in-store audio, visual and other forms of media and marketing solutions, which was confirmed and became effective one day after the company filed for chapter 11 protection, setting a new record for the fastest chapter 11 case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
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Frontier Communications 363 Sale
Northwest Fiber LLC, the purchaser, in connection with the sale under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code of equity interests in certain of Frontier Communication’s subsidiaries that conduct Frontier’s business in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.4 billion.
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Cumulus Media’s Chapter 11 Cases
Cumulus Media, the nation’s second largest radio company with 446 stations spread across 90 markets, and certain of its affiliates in their chapter 11 cases, including a multi-day chapter 11 plan confirmation trial addressing, among other things, various valuation issues.
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Sungard’s Prepackaged Chapter 11 Case
The equity sponsors of software company Sungard Availability Services in its prepackaged chapter 11 case, approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York less than 24 hours after the company filed for chapter 11 protection, setting the record for the fastest chapter 11 case ever.
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Mood Media’s Cross-Border Restructuring
U.S. counsel to certain noteholders holding a majority of notes issued by Mood Media, a leading global provider of in-store media and marketing services with $650 million in funded debt obligations, in a comprehensive debt and equity restructuring through proceedings in Canada and the United States.
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Aspect Software’s Prearranged Chapter 11 Case
An ad hoc committee of certain first lien lenders of Aspect Software, a global provider of software systems, equipment, and corresponding professional services for contact centers that service the needs of customers across a wide range of industries, as well as lenders under Aspect Software’s postpetition term loan facility, in connection with Aspect Software’s restructuring through a prearranged chapter 11 case. This matter was recognized by The M&A Advisor as the “Information Technology Deal of the Year (Over $250MM).”
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Catalina Marketing’s Chapter 11 Cases
An ad hoc group of crossover lenders to Catalina Marketing Corporation, a leading provider of personalized digital media solutions, in connection with the company’s prepackaged chapter 11 cases.
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Nine Entertainment Group’s Restructuring
The senior secured lenders to Australian-based Nine Entertainment Group in the restructuring of more than AU$2 billion of debt by means of a scheme of arrangement under which the lenders became the principal equity holders of the reorganized company.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Prepackaged Chapter 11 Case
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a leading textbook publisher, in the negotiation, filing and consummation of a prepackaged chapter 11 reorganization plan that eliminated approximately $3.1 billion in debt and $250 million in annual interest costs. The company emerged from chapter 11 in a mere 32 days.
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Charter Communications’ Chapter 11 Case
The unofficial committee of bondholders of Charter Communications, one of the largest cable service providers, in Charter’s unprecedented “reinstatement” plan under chapter 11, permitting the fourth largest cable television operator to emerge from chapter 11 with $8 billion less debt on its balance sheet and $2.5 billion of capital newly invested by our clients. Paul, Weiss was recognized by The Financial Times for our “Stand Out” work on this matter. The Deal Magazine recognized the matter as a “Deal of the Year.”
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Alpha Media Group’s Out-of-Court Restructuring
Alpha Media Group, publisher of Maxim Magazine, in connection with its out-of-court restructuring.
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Diamond Sports Group
Diamond Sports Group, the nation’s largest owner of regional sports networks, in its chapter 11 cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. In connection with its filing, Diamond entered into a restructuring support agreement with the company’s creditors that would eliminate over $8 billion of its outstanding debt.
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Digicel Group
An ad hoc group of secured and unsecured creditors of Digicel Group, the leading provider of mobile phone networks and home entertainment services in 25 markets across the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific, in its restructuring of over $5.4 billion of debt.
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National CineMedia
National CineMedia, the largest movie theater advertising business in North America, in its chapter 11 cases filed in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas.
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Learfield
An ad hoc group of lenders of Learfield, a collegiate sports marketing company representing over 200 collegiate properties, in an out-of-court recapitalization transaction allowing the company to reduce its outstanding debt by over $600 million and secure $150 million in new-money equity investments.
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QualTek Services
An ad hoc group of first lien term loan lenders of QualTek Services, a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure services, in connection with both a prepetition financing transaction and a comprehensive restructuring effected through the company’s prearranged chapter 11 filing.
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Avaya Holdings Corp.
An ad hoc investor group of first lien lenders of Avaya Holdings Corp., a global leader in communication and collaboration solutions, in connection with the company’s prepackaged chapter 11 plan which reduced Avaya’s total debt by more than 75% from approximately $3.4 billion to approximately $800 million.
