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A top-notch restructuring group, capable of handling the biggest and the most difficult restructuring from either company side or creditors’ side.

- Chambers USA, Band 1 Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Nationwide and NY)

Oil & Gas

Our restructuring department fields large, multidisciplinary teams that leverage the resources of our firm as a whole. We act on all sides of cutting-edge restructuring transactions across a range of industries.

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  • California Resources Corporation's Chapter 11 Case

    An ad hoc group of creditors of California Resources Corporation, an independent, publicly traded oil and natural gas exploration and production company with the largest oil and natural gas production operations in California, in its chapter 11 cases. The company’s plan provided for the restructuring of over $5.8 billion of debt and preferred equity interests.

  • Hi-Crush's Chapter 11 Case

    An ad hoc group of senior noteholders in the prearranged chapter 11 restructuring of Hi-Crush, a fully-integrated provider of proppant and logistics services used in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells. The company’s plan provided for the restructuring of over $600 million of debt, including an approximate $50 million new money capital raise and the equitization of its senior unsecured notes.

  • Prearranged Chapter 11 of Extraction Oil & Gas

    An ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in the prearranged chapter 11 restructuring of Extraction Oil & Gas, one of the largest oil and gas exploration and production companies in the Rocky Mountain region, with approximately $1.7 billion of funded debt obligations. 

  • Templar Energy's Prepackaged Chapter 11 Case

    Templar Energy, an independent upstream oil and gas company, in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases in the District of Delaware, pursuant to which the company sold substantially all of its assets under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. 

  • Whiting Petroleum Corporation Chapter 11

    An ad hoc committee of noteholders in the chapter 11 restructuring of Whiting Petroleum Corporation, one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in the U.S. with over $3.4 billion in funded debt obligations.

  • Jonah Energy's Out-of-Court Restructuring

    TPG Global and EIG Management Company in an out of court restructuring of their equity investment in Jonah Energy Holdings, one of the largest privately-held natural gas producers in the United States.

  • Pioneer Energy Services Corp.'s Prepackaged Chapter 11

    Pioneer Energy Services Corp., a land-based drilling and production services provider operating in the U.S. and Colombia, in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Texas. The company’s prepackaged plan reduced Pioneer’s funded debt and injected approximately $120 million of new capital into the company, enabling the company’s emergence from chapter 11 as a going concern and preserving over 1,000 jobs.

  • Seadrill Limited Chapter 11 Case

    A group of new money in lenders in the purchase new secured notes issued by Seadrill Limited in connection with its exit financing implemented through a chapter 11 plan.

  • PDVSA's Restructuring

    The ad hoc group of 2020 secured PDVSA noteholders in a potential restructuring of the senior secured notes issued by Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., an oil and gas company that is wholly owned by the government of Venezuela.

  • Out-of-Court Restructurings of Brazos Valley Longhorn (f/k/a WildHorse Resource Development)

    An ad hoc group of noteholders of Brazos Valley Longhorn (f/k/a WildHorse Resource Development), a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the out-of-court restructuring of over $600 million debt. The restructuring took place via a tender offer and consent solicitation in which our clients received par value for their notes.

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