Reported and Representative Cases

• National Realty Investment Advisers, LLC, et al. Represents the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in a massive commercial real estate Ponzi scheme and securities fraud case involving nearly 2000 investors across the country with approximately $520 million invested as of the petition date.
• Toys ‘R’ Us, Inc., et al. Represented one of the largest vendors to the Toys ‘R’ Us, Inc. debtors, and actively serving as one of four firms on the ad hoc merchandise vendors’ group negotiating the resolution of more than $800 million in unpaid administrative claims in one of the largest retail bankruptcies in US history.
• Hanjin Shipping Co., LTD. Represented beneficial cargo owner in one of the largest Korean shipping bankruptcies in history
• Suntech America, Inc.et al. Represented one of the world’s largest solar panel manufacturers and Chairperson of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors holding a claim of more than $143 million.
• Diocesan Bankruptcies. Represents the Norwich Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation in its pending chapter 11 case in the District of Connecticut and represented the provider of liability coverage in numerous diocesan bankruptcies, including the Diocese of Duluth, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Great Falls Montana, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup, and others.
• Lombard Public Facilities Corporation. Represented the indenture trustee on more than $200 million of debt in a successful reorganization confirmed in 2018.
• Detroit Chapter 9 Proceedings. Represented executory contract party that managed the City’s transportation system and provided other pre- and post-bankruptcy services to the City.
• RadioShack Corporations. Represented landlord on multiple unexpired leases/licenses and other pre-petition creditors.
• Ashley Stuart Holdings, Inc. Represented landlords.
• MF Global. Represented various investors.
• Conseco, Inc. Represented Indenture Trustee of a $200 million indenture.
• Lehman Brothers. Represented contract counterparties under repurchase agreements on subprime lending transactions.
• Continental Airlines. Represented the First Series Indenture Trustee.
• Delta Airlines. Represented subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.
• Houlihan’s In re Gilbert Robinson. Represented the unsecured creditors committee representing more than $200 million of debt.

• Counsel to Indenture Trustee in Lombard Public Facilities Corporation case in the Northern District of Illinois on more than $200 million of debt in successful reorganization confirmed in 2018.
• Counsel to First Manhattan Development REIT in connection with its $106 million loan secured by a New York apartment building in the 785 Partners, LLC case in the Southern District of New York, obtaining full recovery, including title to the building and a multi-million-dollar cash payment.
• Counsel to the Note-A Senior Lenders in the workout of a $124 million loan facility secured by one of the largest luxury condominium developments in Orlando Florida.
• Counsel to privately held $225 million exotic, high-end vehicle financing and leasing company in virtually all aspects of its business.
• Counsel to Indenture Trustee for the 93/94 Noteholders, under two $200 million indentures in the $6.5 billion bankruptcy of Conseco, Inc., et al., the then third largest bankruptcy proceeding in United States history, in the Northern District of Illinois, which resulted in a 100% distribution to all noteholders.
• Counsel for the First Series Indenture Trustee for approximately $100 million in secured equipment certificates in the Continental Airlines, Inc. bankruptcy case.
• Counsel to the single largest bondholder in the Trump Taj Mahal, Inc. and the Western Union (In re New Valley Corp.) cases in the District of New Jersey.

• Counsel to the Committee in Interlogic Outsourcing, Inc., et al.  in the Western District of Michigan, representing the interests of approximately 5000 customers and creditors of the bankrupt payroll processing company in a massive check kiting scheme involving multiple national banks, and hundreds of millions of dollars in kiting, asserted bank overdraft liabilities exceeding $142 million and other claims.
• Counsel to one of the world’s largest solar panel manufacturers and Chairperson of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Suntech America, Inc. et al. Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, holding a claim of more than $143 million.
• Counsel to the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 filing of a newly developed $160 million New York hotel and condominium building, resulting in a 100% recovery for unsecured creditors.
• Counsel to the creditors’ committee in Select Nutrition Distributors, Inc., et al., the then third largest distributor of health supplements in the country, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.
• Counsel to the creditors’ committee in the Hibbard Brown (a “penny stock” brokerage bankruptcy firm with more than $100 million in stock fraud and manipulation claims) in the Southern District of New York.
• Counsel to the creditors’ committee in the Gilbert Robinson, Inc., G/R/ Holding Corp., Inc. (the Houlihan’s restaurants case), a $200 million Chapter 11 proceeding in the Southern District of New York.
• Counsel to the creditors’ committee in Dreis and Krump Manufacturing Company, a mass tort/product liability case in the Northern District of Illinois that culminated in a confirmed plan patterned after the Piper Aircraft present and future claims trusts, garnering national press.
• Counsel to the creditors’ committee in Berk and Berk (unsecured creditors received a 100 percent dividend in a successfully reorganized Chapter 11 case after the restructuring of more than $30 million in HUD secured debt).
• Counsel for special committees such as the Ad Hoc Committee of All Present and Former Employees of Kiwi International Air Lines, Inc., an organized group of approximately 250 founding employee shareholders of KIWI International Air Lines, Inc. in the District of New Jersey, and Counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of Certain Equity Security Holders of Mega-C Power Corporation, in the District of Nevada, representing the interests of more than 100 investors in a contested plan confirmation hearing, competing plan litigation and related adversary proceedings.

• National Realty Investment Advisers, LLC, et al. Represents the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in a massive commercial real estate Ponzi scheme and securities fraud case involving nearly 2000 investors across the country with approximately $520 million invested as of the petition date.
• Liberty State Benefits of Delaware, Inc., et al., represented the Chapter 11 Trustee and subsequently appointed Liquidating Trustee in one of the most egregious Ponzi Scheme cases pending in the District of Delaware, involving four affiliated companies and hundreds of defrauded investors in numerous jurisdictions, that culminated in a successful plan confirmation in late 2014.
• Wellesley Services, LLC, et al. (Harvey v. Wellesley, et al.), at the request of the State of New Jersey Bureau of Securities, served as court appointed receiver in one of the largest securities fraud cases brought by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities to recover more than $90 million of investor funds.
• CAJ Trading, Inc., et al. (Farmer v. Natale, et al.), represented the court appointed Receiver in a Ponzi Scheme funded through the sale of unregistered securities by unregistered agents, defrauding investors holding more than $30 million in claims.

• China Natural Gas, Inc. in its complex, multinational Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Proceeding in the Southern District of New York, seeking to restructure nearly $100 million in asserted claims.
• Counsel to privately held national mortgage lender and its numerous affiliates in connection with the restructuring of more than $1 billion of repurchase obligations with respect to its subprime lending exposure, secured indebtedness and the underlying business, including full preparation of the companies for an eventful complex chapter 11 filing.
• Ranch*1, Inc., et al., restaurant chain in its successful Chapter 11 proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Claremont Towers, that resulted in a successful reorganization as well as a published decision regarding claims allowance, rendered by the then Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey.
• Counsel to the Chapter 11 Trustee in Virginia Carolina Tools, Inc., resulting in a successfully confirmed plan that entailed orderly liquidation of this multi-state debtor’s business.