About
Wes is an associate in our restructuring practice in our New York office. His practice focuses on all aspects of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency proceedings, and liability management.
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- A global investment firm with crossholdings in the pre-petition debt of Klöckner Pentaplast.
- The insolvent subsidiaries of a highly solvent global parent company.
- A European commercial bank in bankruptcy adjacent litigation.
- A potential acquirer of distressed pharmaceutical assets in 363 sale.
- A potential bidder in PDV Holdings, Inc. / PDVSA special situation.
- A potential bidder in Vertex Energy, Inc.’s Chapter 11 case.
- An ad hoc group of second lien lenders in connection with prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Dynata, LLC.
- The largest term-loan lender in an out-of-court restructuring of a midstream energy company.
- Eyecare Service Partners in its recapitalization transaction.
- Enviva Inc., the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets as a source of renewable energy, in connection with its comprehensive financial restructuring and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases; the company’s restructuring deleveraged its balance sheet by approximately $1.4 billion while raising approximately $1.3 billion in new-money commitments through a senior secured exit facility and an equity rights offering, and facilitated the renegotiation and preservation of key, long-term customer offtake contracts critical to its business operations.
- HONX, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hess Corporation, in its successful Chapter 11 case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
- Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Voyager’s Chapter 11 cases were one of the first restructurings of a major cryptocurrency company.
- Benefytt Technologies, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
*This list includes work that Wes completed while at a prior firm.
Wes Lord
Associate
New York Office
3 World Trade Center
175 Greenwich Street, 51st Floor
New York, NY 10007