Industry Contacts
Related Practices
International
The firm represents domestic companies engaged in international commercial activities as well as foreign entities doing business or involved in litigation or transactions in the United States. The firm counsels its international clients regarding a variety of complex financing, restructuring, general corporate, and debtor-creditor matters and has experience in international or "cross border" insolvency cases. In recognition of the increasing two-way investment flow between the United States and China as well as other countries in the Asia/Pacific region, the firm has a growing practice and an expanding presence in this area. The firm has established working relationships with counsel in many countries throughout the world.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
The firm is representing Samsung as a creditor in the bankruptcy case of semiconductor company Conexant Systems, Inc.
STATS ChipPAC Ltd.
The firm represented this Singapore-based company as a creditor in the bankruptcy case of semiconductor company Conexant Systems, Inc.
China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE)
The firm served as principal counsel to China's insurer of over $130 billion of annual export debt and its Chinese manufacturer policyholders and clients in United States insolvency matters, including representations on creditors' committees.
Mitsumi Electronics Corporation
The firm regularly counsels this high-technology client in business, litigation, and licensing and trade-secret issues relating to debtor-creditor relations, including as a creditors' committee member in the Smith Corona chapter 11 case. Mitsumi manufactures components for computers and other electronic products.
Fuji Bank
The firm has represented this Japanese bank in several matters over the years, including a large restructuring.
VIA Technologies
We have represented this Taiwan high-technology company in the formation and capitalization of several entities in both the United States and the Cayman Islands. We have also assisted VIA in structuring equity incentive plans for two of its affiliates, negotiating with potential venture capital investors, advising VIA on general corporate and securities law issues.
Worldwide Restaurant Concepts, Inc.
The firm represented this company in a variety of matters, including the reorganization of WRC's Australian division and advice regarding the establishment of a Chinese joint venture.
Maxide
The firm represented Maxide Acquisition, Inc. in the sale of stock of its foreign subsidiaries located in Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Elite
The firm represented this Switzerland-based parent of the Elite Worldwide Modeling Agency in the bankruptcy of its U.S. subsidiary, Elite Model Management of New York.
Trefinos
The firm represented this Spanish cork supplier in a workout with its largest U.S. customer.
Banque Paribas
The firm represented this bank, later Paribas, in several loan workouts and chapter 11 cases.
Bramalea
A cross-border reorganization in Toronto, Canada, and Oakland, California.
Banco di Roma
The firm represented this Italian bank in a workout and bankruptcy case.
Banco di Sicilia
The firm represented this Italian bank in a workout.
News
- The M&A Advisor, June 30, 2023
- International Insolvency Institute (III)June 2023
- April 2022
- December 2020
- Global Restructuring Review (GRR), November 2019
- Global Restructuring Review (GRR), June 20, 2019
- June 27, 2018
Publications
- U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Rules That Domestic Grounds for Vacating Arbitration Awards Apply to International Arbitration Awards Rendered in the USChartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) News, September 13, 2023
- Global Restructuring Review (GRR), September 10, 2021
- Business Law Today (August 2021)
- Journal of Corporate Renewal, January 2019
Representative Cases
Events
- 2024 ABI International North American Insolvency SymposiumNew York, NY, November 6, 2024
- INSOL International Seoul SeminarSeoul, Korea, October 7, 2024
- Insolvency Institute of Canada Annual ConferenceScottsdale AZ, September 28, 2024
- 2024 Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy JudgesSeattle, September 17, 2024
- 24th Annual International Insolvency ConferenceSingapore, June 9, 2024
- International Insolvency Institute, the International Women's Insolvency & Reorganization Confederation, and UNCITIRALNew York, May 14, 2024
- International Bar Association (IBA) Annual ConferenceParis, November 2, 2023
- Insolvency Law and Reform in the Aftermath of the Global Pandemic: Recent Developments in Hawai‘i, the United States and AsiaWaikiki HI, October 27, 2023
- GRR Live: Restructuring in the AmericasNew York, September 20, 2023
- 30th Annual Conference of the International Association of Korean LawyersSeoul, Korea, September 15, 2023
- TMA Global 2023 International SymposiumHamburg, Germany, June 21, 2023
- 28th Annual IBA Global Insolvency and Restructuring ConferenceMadrid, Spain, May 23, 2023
- Conference Dedicated to the 5th Anniversary of the Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-Related JudgmentsNew York City, April 21, 2023
- 22nd Annual International Insolvency ConferenceToronto ON, September 8, 2022
- ABI Cross-Border Insolvency ProgramVirtual, November 18, 2021
- UNCITRAL Academy 2021Virtual, September 8, 2021
- ABI’s 16th Annual International Insolvency & Restructuring SymposiumNovember 18, 2020
- INSOL International Tokyo One Day SeminarNovember 7, 2019
- Osgood Hall Law School Annual Update in Corporate Insolvency and RestructuringToronto, October 4, 2019
- International Bar Association Annual ConferenceSeoul, South Korea, September 24, 2019
- Singapore 2019 10th Corporate Governance WeekSeptember 23, 2019
- 27th Annual International Association of Korean Lawyers ConferenceSeoul, South Korea, September 21, 2019
- 25th Annual Distressed Investing ConferenceNew York, November 26, 2018
- Fourteenth Annual International Insolvency & Restructuring SymposiumMilan, Italy, October 17, 2018
- INSOL International Annual Regional Conference in the AmericasNew York, April 29, 2018
- American Bankruptcy Institute International CommitteeNew York, April 29, 2018