Pre-Bankruptcy Planning for Troubled Lending Facilities: Workout Strategies for Maximizing Recovery

Ms. Holl Chang advises clients in out-of-court restructurings, workouts and liability management transactions, Chapter 11 proceedings, enforcement actions, cross-border restructurings, and other reorganization proceedings. Her expertise includes intercreditor issues that arise in debt financing transactions and reorganizations, such as first/second lien loans, split-lien financings, mezzanine financings, unitranche structures and subordination agreements. Ms. Holl Chang regularly represents a wide variety of commercial banks, agent banks and lending syndicates, private credit lenders and other alternative credit providers, companies, indenture trustees and other parties-in-interest in all types of distressed situations.

Mr. Koenig helps clients win high-stakes disputes. He has vast experience in complex commercial bankruptcy, litigation, and trust matters and leads the bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice at Koley Jessen, where he is a shareholder and member of the Executive Committee. A strategic thinker and pragmatic problem solver with a significant record of success, Mr. Koenig is the trusted bankruptcy and litigation counsel in proceedings throughout the country for multiple publicly traded companies, private equity firms, privately held businesses, and prominent individuals. In his commercial bankruptcy and financially distressed transactions practice, he counsels a variety of clients including creditors, debtors, bankruptcy trustees, creditor committees, and post-bankruptcy investors, to help them evaluate risks, minimize their exposure, maximize their recoveries, structure transactions, and cost-effectively resolve issues. A previous 40 under 40 honoree by the American Bankruptcy Institute, Mr. Koenig has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters and in The Best Lawyers in America® for commercial litigation and litigation - bankruptcy and by Chambers and Partners for his Bankruptcy/Restructuring work.