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Mr. Coffey focuses his practice on complex corporate restructuring matters including Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. He has extensive experience representing a wide spectrum of official and ad hoc committees of creditors and equity holders, individual secured and unsecured creditors, asset acquirers, trustees and other significant parties-in-interest in restructuring matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Coffey was in private practice in Dallas, Texas and a member of the adjunct faculty at Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he taught the Advanced Bankruptcy Course. Mr. Coffey also served as a law clerk for Judge Dennis Michael Lynn in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Representative Matters
• Represents an ad hoc consortium of Trust Preferred Security holders in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Washington Mutual, Inc.
• Represented the Official Equity Committee in Chapter 11 proceedings of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation.
• Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Six Flags, Inc.
• Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Motor Coach Industries International, Inc.
• Represented an ad hoc consortium of second lien lenders of Legends Gaming, LLC.
• Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Fedders North America, Inc.
• Represented an ad hoc committee of lenders in Chapter 11 proceedings of Le-Nature’s, Inc.
• Represented a trust advisory committee in connection with Chapter 11 proceedings of Geneva Steel, LLC.
• Served as court-appointed corporate monitor of gaming company in its Chapter 11 proceedings in the Northern District of Texas.
• Represented the acquirer of substantially all the assets of an international engineering firm in connection with Chapter 11 proceedings in the District of Delaware and the District of Utah.
• Represented a Canadian mushroom farming operation in connection with cross border restructuring associated with its Chapter 11 case in the District of Delaware.
Publications
• Author, Chapter 32, “Bankruptcy,” New York Practice Guide: Business and Commercial, 2007
• Author, Chapter 17, “Bankruptcy,” Equipment Leasing: Theory and Practical Guidance 2007
• Author, Chapter 24A, “Sales Outside the Ordinary Course of Business,” Collier Handbook for Trustees and Debtors in Possession, 2008
• Author, Chapter 8, “Bankruptcy Considerations,” Lender Liability Law and Litigation, 2005
• Co-Author, Chapter 11: The Practice of Corporate Reorganization Law (publication pending)
Bar Admissions & Memberships
• Admitted, Massachusetts and Texas Bars
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