University of Michigan Law School

Northwestern University

Shawnee

Counsel, Corporate Restructuring at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Representative clients include:

- TridentUSA Health Services, a nationwide mobile diagnostics health care provider, in its successful reorganization in Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, which delevered the company’s balance sheet by approximately $600 million and resolved hundreds of millions of dollars of alleged qui tam liability at significant discount. This matter was named a 2020 TMA Turnaround of the Year by the Turnaround Management Association and Healthcare/Life Sciences Deal of the Year ($500MM or more) by The M&A Advisor;

- various skilled nursing and senior living managers and operators, as well as regional hospital chains, in both in and out-of-court restructuring and financing matters;

- Tranche A-2 DIP lenders in providing a $550 million DIP-to-exit facility in the Chapter 11 cases of Colombia’s largest airline, Avianca Holdings S.A., et al. This deal was named Restructuring Deal of the Year in 2022 by LatinFinance;

- the minority DIP lender in the Chapter 11 cases of one of Mexico’s largest airlines, Grupo Aeroméxico, S.A.B. de C.V.;

- Markel CATCo Reinsurance Fund and its affiliates in their Chapter 15 cases that obtained recognition and enforcement of third-party releases;

- R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in connection with the Chapter 11 cases of its former subsidiary LSC Communications, Inc., et al., including negotiation and procurement of a global settlement and plan releases;

- EMAS CHIYODA Subsea Limited, an international subsea construction company, in its successful Chapter 11 cases;

- SunEdison, Inc. in the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy case by assets in 2016; and

- Exide Technologies in its successful Chapter 11 cases, including obtaining a favorable opinion denying an environmental agency’s motion that sought a finding that more than $80 million in asserted claims were non-dischargeable and entitled to administrative expense.

Justin Winerman