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)
Company/Debtor
Clients around the world call upon our team to resolve their most complex restructuring situations. We have vast experience advising companies across a diverse array of industries regarding in- and out-of-court restructuring, refinancing and recapitalization options and issues. The depth of our company-side experience has made Paul, Weiss the firm of choice for companies seeking strategic and practical guidance to navigate complex and transformative restructuring matters.
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Walter Energy’s Chapter 11 Cases
Walter Energy, a leading producer and exporter of metallurgical coal for the global steel industry, in its U.S.-Canadian cross-border restructuring, including all aspects of its chapter 11 case, resulting in the discharge of over $4 billion of secured and unsecured debt and the going concern sale of the company’s core mining operations to its senior lenders. This matter was recognized by The M&A Advisor as the “Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (Over $1B)” and “Section 363 Sale of the Year (Over $1B).”
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Animal Supply’s Out-of-Court Restructuring
Animal Supply Company, a national leader in pet food and supplies distribution, in an out-of-court restructuring transaction providing for the equitization of a significant portion of debt and the infusion of new capital.
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Triangle Petroleum’s Prepackaged Chapter 11 Case
Triangle Petroleum, an independent energy holding company, in its prepackaged chapter 11 case in Delaware.
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Noranda’s Chapter 11 Cases
Noranda Aluminum, a leading U.S. producer of primary aluminum and aluminum foil products, and its wholly owned subsidiaries in all aspects of their chapter 11 cases, including (a) the sales of Noranda’s upstream and downstream businesses, (b) the rejection of a burdensome supply contract over the objection of a counterparty who was seeking to assume the same contract in its own chapter 11 case, and (c) a global settlement with various creditor groups.
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EnQuest’s Cross-border Restructuring
U.S. counsel to EnQuest, the largest U.K. independent oil producer in the U.K. North Sea, in connection with a restructuring of the company’s approximately $1.8 billion of debt obligations through proceedings in the United Kingdom and the United States. This matter was recognized by The American Lawyer as the “Global Finance Deal of the Year: Insolvency and Restructuring (U.K.).”
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AbitibiBowater’s Cross-border Restructuring
AbitibiBowater (now Resolute Forest Products), North America's largest forest products company, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, as lead U.S. counsel in their complex cross-border cases in the U.S. and Canada involving the restructuring of more than $8 billion of prepetition indebtedness and raising $1.5 billion in exit financing.
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School Specialty’s Chapter 11 Case
School Specialty, one of the largest suppliers of supplemental educational products, equipment and standard based curriculum, in all aspects of its chapter 11 case.
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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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Samsonite Corporation’s Restructuring
Samsonite Corporation, a manufacturer of luggage and travel bags, in its worldwide out-of-court restructuring. In connection with the representation, we also represented Samsonite Company Stores in its successful prepackaged chapter 11 case, which was confirmed by the Delaware bankruptcy court in approximately two months.
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Buffets Restaurant Holdings' Prearranged Chapter 11 Cases
Buffets Restaurant Holdings and its subsidiaries and affiliates, one of the largest national chains in the restaurant industry family dining segment, in negotiating and consummating their prearranged chapter 11 cases that resulted in the restructuring of $250 million of secured and unsecured debt.
