Kyle J. Ortiz

Eletson Holdings: Represented the petitioning creditors in successful involuntary petitions in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of a global seaborne transportation company, securing approval of a creditor-sponsored Chapter 11 plan over competing plan of the debtors, and in enforcement actions against the previous owners following the effective date of the creditor plan.*

Acorda Therapeutics: Served as conflicts counsel to a biopharmaceutical company that developed breakthrough products, therapies and biotechnology for people with neurological disorders in their Chapter 11 cases to effectuate a $185 million sale to a global, privately held pharmaceutical company headquartered in Germany and, post-confirmation, as counsel to the litigation trustee.*

Served as conflicts counsel to a 150-year-old green coffee supplier in the restructuring of roughly half a billion in funded debt.*

Represented the debtors, a large e-commerce brand incubator and aggregator selling nearly 1,000 products across dozens of brands, in their successful restructuring of nearly $100 million in debt.*

Represented debtors, owners of two Airbus A350 Widebody aircraft operated by Vietnam Airlines, in a restructuring that provide 100% returns to creditors.*

Served as the U.S. bankruptcy law expert in connection with the recognition of the debtor airline’s Chapter 11 proceedings by the Philippines Regional Trial Court.*

Represented, as debtors’ counsel, the U.S. parent company following the collapse of a multibillion dollar global supply chain finance and factoring enterprise.*

Represented debtors, Latin America’s leading airline group, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases filed in May 2020.*

Represented debtors, the leading national provider of bedside diagnostic and related services in the U.S., in the restructuring of approximately $700 million in liabilities.*

Represented the debtors, biopharmaceutical companies focused on the development and commercialization of novel gastrointestinal therapies, consummating a Chapter 11 restructuring through a section 363 sale of a majority of their assets within four months.*

Represented the debtors, a drilling company that provides ultra-deep water drilling for many of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, in the restructuring of more than $3 billion in liabilities.*

Represented one of the debtors, the holding company of the international arm of a U.S.-based global nuclear power business, in connection with the restructuring of over $9 billion in debt between a U.K.-based affiliated company and 31 other affiliated debtors.*

Represented the debtors, 24 international shipping companies with approximately 46 vessels, in the restructuring of more than $1 billion in liabilities.*

Represented the debtors, a teen clothing retail chain of more than 800 stores, in the restructuring of approximately $260 million in liabilities and served as co-counsel to the plan administrator post confirmation.*

Represented the debtors, one of the world's leading developers of renewable-energy solutions, as co-counsel in the restructuring of more than $16 billion in liabilities.*

Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of 143 debtors engaged in motion picture and television production and distribution in the restructuring of liabilities exceeding $750 million.*

Served as counsel to the Chapter 11 trustee in cases involving a $100 million tax fraud by a professional employer organization.*

Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the restructuring of $1.7 billion in debt of a rare earths mining company.*

Represented a Texas-based exploration and production company focused in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea in the sale of its North Sea assets to its existing lenders in connection with a structured dismissal of its Chapter 11 cases.*

Represented the debtors, a prominent U.S. airline, in the Chapter 11 restructuring of $24 billion in debt and the $32 billion merger with another prominent U.S. airline to create the largest airline in the world.*

Represented the debtors, a prominent American financial services firm, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history at the time with over $600 billion in liabilities.*

(*Indicates work done prior to joining the firm.)