EXPERIENCE

Chris’s notable representations include:

• A cross-holder ad hoc group in Oregon Tool, a global leader and manufacturer of professional-grade cutting tools, in three financing transactions by the company. These transactions increased the company’s liquidity by $150 million, reduced pre-transaction debt by over $75 million and extended maturities dates
• An ad hoc group of convertible noteholders of DISH Network, in connection with a $5.1 billion new money spectrum bond financing for EchoStar and a $4.9 billion exchange into new spectrum bonds of EchoStar
• A consortium of investors in connection with a superpriority bridge financing for Locus Solutions, a leading provider of computer processing and data preparation services
• A group of opportunistic investors in a series of senior secured and hybrid preferred financings for Signal Energy
• Cross River Bank as the sole secured creditor in the restructuring and bankruptcy case of Sunlight Financial
• An ad hoc group of first lien term loan lenders in a deleveraging transaction by Belk and its affiliates, a privately owned department store with nearly 300 stores across the Southeastern United States
• JP Morgan Chase Bank, as first lien lender to Electrical Components International, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of electronical distribution systems and other critical engineered components for diversified markets
• An ad hoc group of noteholders in connection with the out-of-court recapitalization and restructuring of Innophos Holdings, a North American manufacturer of specialty phosphates, chelated minerals, and other ingredients