Working in concert with the firm’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice, Dickstein Shapiro’s Corporate & Finance Group represents debtors, lenders, hedge funds, and other financial investors in planning for or participating in restructuring transactions. Engagements have involved a broad array of business types, including retailers, manufacturers, service-oriented businesses, real estate, energy, communications, and high-tech firms, as well as government contractors and others involved in specialized industries.

Representative engagements include:

• Representation of a creditors’ committee, representing more than 50 lenders/creditors owed in excess of $2 billion of indebtedness, in the structuring and implementation of a consensual out-of-court reorganization plan for a company;
• Representation of a national developer of multifamily residential real estate in connection with the restructuring of more than 50 syndicated partnerships, both with and without resort to bankruptcy proceedings;
• Representation of U.S.-based investment funds in connection with the corporate restructuring of AT&T Canada (formerly Unitel Communications Inc.);
• Representation of a U.S.-based investment fund in connection with the insolvency of Discovery Zone, Inc. (including with regard to a DIP lending facility provided to the debtor by the fund);
• Representation of a national labor union in connection with the management and disposition of a $300 million portfolio of troubled loans and assets located primarily in the Northeast United States;
• Representation of a publicly held provider of managed pharmaceutical care, as debtor-in-procession, in connection with its reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code; and
• Representation of the Resolution Trust Corporation in connection with various aspects of the restructuring of the U.S. savings and loan industry.