Christopher Robertson
Lawyers
Represents companies, hedge funds, banks, creditors and other strategic parties in a wide range of corporate restructurings.
Chris 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, debtor-in-possession financings and section 363 sales.
Experience
- Purdue Pharma in connection with its chapter 11 restructuring that seeks to effectuate a comprehensive settlement of more than $40 trillion of asserted claims
- Spirit Airlines in its prearranged chapter 11 filing
- Fisker in its chapter 11 cases
- Ad hoc group of noteholders and term lenders in connection with a comprehensive
out-of-court restructuring of approximately $4.8 billion of iHeartMedia’s
indebtedness - Ad hoc crossover group in connection with a comprehensive cross-border debt
recapitalization of Diebold Nixdorf - Ad hoc group of noteholders and lenders in connection with an aggregate $200
million new first-lien term loan facility and senior secured first-lien notes issuance
for Shutterfly - Ad hoc group of Riverbed Technology term lenders with respect to the acquisition of Riverbed Holdings, Inc. by Vector Capital
- Administrative agent and collateral agent in connection with refinancing an existing
$250 million senior secured ABL credit facility for Prospect Medical Holdings - 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
- 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.
- Patriot Coal and its affiliates in connection with their chapter 11 cases
- Pinnacle Airlines and its affiliates in connection with their chapter 11 cases
- All eight of the U.S.’s global systemically important banking groups (G-SIBs) in their resolution plans and numerous other major financial institutions in connection with Dodd-Frank resolution planning
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law
- John J. Galgay Fellow
B.S.B.A., Economics and Management, Washington University in St. Louis
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York
- U.S. District Court, S.D. New York