Alexander D. McCammon

48forty Solutions — Representing 48forty Solutions, LLC and certain of its affiliates (“48forty”), in their out-of-court restructuring, which was supported by 100% of 48forty’s lenders. 48forty is the largest pallet management services company in North America.  Pursuant to the restructuring transactions, 48forty received $50 million in new capital and significant relief under its existing credit facilities, including certain liquidity support, a three-year maturity extension and covenant relief.

Accuride Corporation — Representing Accuride Corporation and 15 of its debtor affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Accuride is the one of the largest and most diversified manufacturers and suppliers of wheels and wheel end components in the world. Accuride commenced its Chapter 11 cases with approximately $485.6 million in funded debt and commitments from an ad hoc group of prepetition term loan lenders to provide nearly $103 million in debtor-in-possession financing. Accuride and its term loan lenders have also agreed on the framework of a consensual restructuring transaction which will deleverage the company’s balance sheet via an equitization of the lenders’ prepetition debt.

SIRVA — Represented SIRVA Worldwide, Inc. and its affiliates in their out-of-court restructuring, which was supported by 100% of SIRVA’s lenders. SIRVA is a global leader in corporate relocation and moving services with 77 locations servicing over 190 countries. Pursuant to the restructuring transaction, SIRVA eliminated over $300 million of funded debt obligations and received $40 million in new capital.

BlockFi — Represented BlockFi Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries (“BlockFi”) in their Chapter 11 cases in the District of New Jersey. BlockFi is an industry-leading provider of cryptocurrency related products and services, allowing its retail and institutional clients access to liquidity, yield, and credit. Following disruption in the cryptocurrency industry, BlockFi commenced Chapter 11 to stabilize its business and provide for the opportunity to consummate a comprehensive restructuring transaction that maximizes value for its clients and stakeholders.

STX Filmworks, Inc. — Represented STX Filmworks, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“STX”), a film, television, and digital media production company, and STX’s corporate parent, Eros STX Global Corporation, in the stock sale of STX to an affiliate of The Najafi Companies for $158 million. In furtherance of the sale, Kirkland also represented two STX subsidiaries in connection with their surgical Chapter 11 filings to protect two of the company’s valuable assets from termination and avoid a “whole-company” Chapter 11 filing. Following the sale transaction, the two STX subsidiaries secured the orderly dismissal of their Chapter 11 cases with the consensual support of all economic stakeholders.

Talen Energy Supply, LLC — Represented an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders (the “Ad Hoc Group”) in the Chapter 11 cases of Talen Energy Supply, LLC and its affiliated debtors (“Talen”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Talen is one of the largest competitive power generation companies in North America, with a generation portfolio consisting of 18 facilities that are collectively capable of producing approximately 13,000 megawatts of power. Talen filed for Chapter 11 relief on May 9 to restructure its approximately $4.5 billion of funded debt obligations by way of a new money capitalization generated by an up to $1.65 billion new money capitalization generated by an equity rights offering backstopped by the Ad Hoc Group.

Team, Inc. — Advised Team, Inc. (NYSE: TISI), a global provider of integrated, digitally enabled asset performance assurance and optimization solutions, regarding an ongoing financing restructuring efforts and strategic review of its capital structure, including Team’s entry into a $50 million delayed draw subordinated term loan facility.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. — Represented Riverbed Technology, Inc. and three of its affiliates in their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Riverbed is a leading provider of IT optimization products and services, including a suite of best-in-class network visibility, management and performance enhancement solutions to many of the world’s largest organizations. Riverbed commenced its Chapter 11 cases with a fully solicited plan and the support of 100% of its first lien and second lien lenders. Pursuant to the Chapter 11 plan, Riverbed will eliminate approximately $1.1 billion of its funded debt and will receive $100 million in new capital.

Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. — Represented Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries (“BTC”) in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Prior to the bankruptcy filing, BTC was one of the nation’s largest independently owned ocean-going petroleum barge companies operating within the Jones Act market, possessing a fleet of 24 barges and 25 tugs that provided oil and petroleum product transportation services. During their Chapter 11 cases, BTC obtained over $100 million of new capital through a series of court-approved transactions and consummated two simultaneous value-maximizing sale transactions for substantially all of their assets that allowed their state‑of‑the‑art fleet to continue operating in the Jones Act market.

Europcar Mobility Group S.A. — Represented Europcar Mobility Group S.A. (“Europcar”), a Paris based global leader in the mobility services industry in its Chapter 15 case before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The Chapter 15 case was part of a comprehensive restructuring strategy to raise €480 million in new financing, equitize €1,100 million in corporate indebtedness, and refinance Europcar’s €670 revolving credit facility through an accelerated financial safeguard proceeding under French law. Europcar and its subsidiaries together operate through four major brands — Europcar, Goldcar, InterRent, and Ubeeqo — to provide mobility service solutions to over 9.5 million customers in over 140 nations, including France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and the United States.

Gulfport Energy Corporation — Represented Gulfport Energy Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Gulfport is an independent returns-oriented, gas-weighted exploration and development company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States, with significant acreage positions in Ohio and Oklahoma. Gulfport entered Chapter 11 with a restructuring support agreement signed by prepetition revolving credit facility lenders holding over 95% of its revolving debt obligations and noteholders holding over 70% of its senior unsecured notes, The restructuring support agreement proposes eliminating approximately $1.25 billion in funded debt obligations, provides for a $262.5 million DIP facility and $580 million in committed exit financing, and contemplates a backstopped rights offering for at least $50 million of preferred equity.

PES Holdings, LLC — Represented PES Holdings, LLC in its Chapter 11 cases initiated in July 2019, four weeks after a catastrophic explosion at PES’s Girard Point refining complex that resulted in a permanent shutdown of PES’s refining operations. Following this event, PES worked quickly to obtain access to $100 million of new DIP financing from its term loan lenders and negotiated consensual cash collateral usage with its working capital lender to finance its Chapter 11 cases. In Chapter 11, PES pursued a competitive sale process for the refinery site and a claim under its $1.25 billion property insurance policy. The process culminated in a $225.5 million equity sale to Hilco Redevelopment Partners under a Chapter 11 plan. The Chapter 11 plan and sale were approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in February 2020, less than 8 months after the catastrophic explosion.

Mood Media Corporation — Represented Mood Media Corporation and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas. Mood Media obtained confirmation of its plan of reorganization in less than 24 hours on July 31, 2020 and emerged from Chapter 11 that same day. Mood Media provides services that aim to create connections between brands and consumers in stores through curated music and other visual and sensory solutions and currently has more than 500,000 subscriber stores in over 100 countries. Pursuant to the prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, Mood Media deleveraged its balance sheet by more than $400 million.

Technicolor S.A. — Represented Technicolor S.A. (“Technicolor”), a Paris-based global leader in content creation to distribution for Hollywood studios, independent filmmakers, music producers, and video game and software developers in its Chapter 15 proceeding pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The Chapter 15 proceeding is part of a comprehensive restructuring strategy to raise €420 million in new financing and refinance Technicolor’s existing $477.8 million and €977 million of funded debt through an accelerated financial safeguard proceeding under French law. Technicolor and its subsidiaries together employ more than 14,000 artists, experts, engineers, and innovators operating in 27 key media markets worldwide, including the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.

Akorn, Inc. — Represented Akorn, Inc. and certain subsidiaries (“Akorn”), a specialty generic pharmaceuticals company with approximately $861.7 million of funded indebtedness, in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

Longview Power, LLC — Represented Longview Power, LLC and its affiliates in connection with their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases involving the restructuring of approximately $355 million in funded debt. Longview operates a 710 net megawatt supercritical coal fired power generation facility in Maidsville, West Virginia that is at the forefront of the clean coal movement.

Bluestem Brands — Represented Bluestem Brands, Inc. and certain of its affiliates (“Bluestem”), a direct-to-consumer retailer that provides a wide array of merchandise through multiple channels under the Orchard and Northstar brand portfolios, in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Bluestem filed with over $460 million in funded indebtedness and a stalking horse purchase agreement that contemplates a going-concern transaction.

China Hospitals, Inc. — Represented Cayman Islands holding company and its foreign representative in Chapter 15 recognition proceeding.

Barneys New York, Inc. — Represented Barneys and its affiliates, the iconic luxury retailer and Manhattan staple, in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. — Represented Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. and certain subsidiaries (“Aegean”), a leading international marine fuel logistics company with approximately $900 million of funded indebtedness, in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Aegean operates in more than 20 countries worldwide with headquarters in Athens, Greece and a corporate office in New York, New York. In connection with its restructuring, Aegean has reached agreements with certain key stakeholders to deleverage its balance sheet by more than $700 million and continue as a going concern.

Think Finance, LLC — Represented Victory Park Capital and certain of its affiliates in connection with Think Finance’s Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. Think Finance is a leading provider of financial technology services.

PILI Fellow, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Summer 2018

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Summer 2017

Systems Analyst, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, 2012–2015