Greenberg Traurig advises on domestic and cross-border reorganizations, workouts, liquidations, and distressed acquisitions and sales. The team represents private equity and credit investors, lenders, bondholders, and official creditors’ committees across industries including healthcare, retail, energy, telecommunications, and infrastructure. Houston-based global co-chair Shari Heyen handles complex restructuring transactions and international special situations. New York-based global co-chair Oscar Pinkas assists turnaround equity and credit investors in capital preservation and recovery. London-based global co-chair John Houghton oversees European matters. Atlanta and New York-based senior chair David Kurzweil provides innovative strategies for corporations and financial institutions. New York-based Leo Muchnik focuses on distressed M&A and insolvency litigation.
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‘Oscar Pinkas' cross border corporate restructuring practice, as well as the team's ability to analyze and advise clients in complicated situations, sets them apart.’
Key clients
- Bank of America, N.A.
- US Bank
- UMB Bank
- Siris Capital
- Invesco Advisers
- Ad Hoc Committee of First Lien Lenders of Southern Water UK
- Wells Fargo
- FH Air Pros, LLC
- Stellex Capital
- Procaps Group, S.A.
Work highlights
Represented midco bondholders owed £300 million in Southern Water’s £900 million recapitalization, helping secure a £1 billion equity infusion from Macquarie and a court-approved creditor alignment to stabilize the utility, preserve its investment-grade rating, and ensure uninterrupted service.
Advised Procaps Group on a $300 million cross-border restructuring and $130 million new money investment that combined new equity and debt refinancing to resolve liquidity and shareholder challenges, preserve operations and jobs across 13 countries, and restore access to capital markets in under six months.
Led a multistate restructuring and sale process for Air Pros, previously a private equity portfolio company.
Practice head
Shari Heyen; Oscar Pinkas; John Houghton
Other key lawyers
Nathan Haynes; Dennis Meloro; David Kurzweil; Leo Muchnik
