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Overview
Matt Friedrick is an associate in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Matt’s practice includes the representation of public and private companies, institutional investors, hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, ad hoc committees, official creditor committees and lenders in complex restructuring transactions both in and out of court. He has experience advising clients in a variety of industries, including the energy, technology, financial services, retail and transportation sectors.
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2018
- Denison University, B.A. (with honors), 2015
Representations
- CWT – Counsel to ad hoc group of noteholders and Carlson Wagonlit Travel / CWT, a business travel management platform.
- Travelport – Counsel to ad hoc term lender group in the Chapter 11 case of Travelport, a global distribution system company, involving over $2 billion super senior priming term loans in the company’s transformative and comprehensive $4.3 billion recapitalization and equity financing.
- Amyris – Counsel to ad hoc group of noteholders in the $1.1 billion Chapter 11 case of Amyris, Inc., a synthetic biotechnology and renewable chemical company.
- WeWork – Counsel to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 case of shared workspace provider WeWork Inc., with $4.2 billion in debt and more than $13 billion in long-term capital lease liabilities
- LTL – Counsel to Ad Hoc Committee of Supporting Counsel to Red River Talc LLC, as successor to LTL Management, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, with representing over 70,000 individuals (the majority of claimants in the restructuring proceedings) holding claims against the Debtor and J&J for their use of talcum powder products that caused the individuals' diagnoses of ovarian or gynecological cancers.
- Zips – Counsel to ad hoc group of lenders in the Chapter 11 case of Zips Car Wash, one of the largest privately-held car wash operators nationwide.
- Sorrento – Counsel to the purchaser in the Chapter 11 case of Sorrento Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
- Akoustis – Counsel to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 case of Akoustis Technologies, a maker of BAW high-brand RF Filters.
- West Marine – Counsel to certain lenders of West Marine in connection with its transaction to refinance its existing debt alongside a $125 million capital investment.
- Basic Fun! – Counsel to the ABL DIP Lender in the Chapter 11 case of Basic Fun, Inc., a global designer and marketer of children’s entertainment products.
- Prospect Medical Group – Counsel to the Official Creditors' Committee in the Chapter 11 case of Prospect Medical Group, a Los Angeles-based healthcare company which operates hospitals in California, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Connecticut
- SVB – Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 case of SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, involving $3.4 billion in liabilities.
- Avaya – Counsel to an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in negotiations related to the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Avaya and its affiliates, a multinational cloud communications and collaboration services company, involving $4 billion in liabilities.
- GTT – Counsel to GTT Communications and its affiliates, operator of one of the largest Tier 1 internet networks in the world, in their Chapter 11 cases involving $4.5 billion in liabilities.
- TPC – Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of TPC Group and its affiliates, a petrochemical manufacturing company, with $1.3 billion in funded debt obligations and hundreds of millions of dollars in tort liabilities.
- Sungard – Counsel to Sungard Availability Services and its affiliates, a global operator of colocation data and disaster recovery centers, in their Chapter 11 cases involving more than $500 million in liabilities and the sale of substantially all of the company’s assets.
- FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. – Counsel to an ad hoc group of bondholders holding more than $2 billion of pollution control bonds and corporate bonds of FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. and its subsidiaries.
- Forever 21 – Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Forever 21 and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries.