Christopher Robertson
  1. Counsel
  1. New York
+1 212 450 4917

Mr. Robertson is counsel in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, practicing in the Restructuring Group. He regularly represents companies, hedge funds, banks, creditors and other strategic parties in a wide range of corporate restructurings, including in connection with prepackaged and traditional bankruptcies, out-of-court workouts, DIP financings and Section 363 sales.

Work Highlights

  • Ad hoc group of senior secured lenders and DIP lenders in connection with the Expro Group’s prepackaged bankruptcy
  • Pernix Therapeutics in its comprehensive out-of-court restructuring and pre-arranged chapter 11 case
  • Ad hoc group of second lien noteholders in connection with SandRidge Energy’s restructuring and pre-arranged chapter 11 case
  • Ad hoc group of term lenders and DIP lenders and the term loan administrative agent in connection with the restructuring of Essar Steel Algoma, including through a CCAA proceeding and a chapter 15 case
  • Ad hoc group of senior secured term lenders in connection with Cambrian Coal LLC and certain of its affiliates
  • Citibank, N.A. as administrative agent and collateral agent, and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as sole lead arranger and bookrunner, for $692 million of debtor-in-possession credit facilities for Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. and certain of its affiliates and Citicorp North America, Inc. as the agent for the debtors’ prepetition credit facilities
  • The first-out debtor-in-possession financing lenders and pre-petition ABL lenders in connection with the chapter 11 proceeding of RadioShack
  • Comcast in connection with the involuntary bankruptcy of Houston Regional Sports Network, L.P.
  • The agent for the approximately $3.9 billion pre-petition senior secured credit facility in the chapter 11 cases of Cengage Learning, Inc. and certain of its affiliates
  • Patriot Coal and its affiliates in connection with their chapter 11 cases
  • Pinnacle Airlines and its affiliates in connection with their chapter 11 cases

Professional History

  • Counsel, 2019-present
  • Associate, 2011-2019

Practice Focus

Bar Admissions

  • State of New York
  • U.S. District Court, S.D. New York

Education

  • B.S.B.A., Economics and Management, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005
  • J.D., New York University School of Law, 2011
    • John J. Galgay Fellow