Justin Rawlins is a partner in the Finance and Restructuring practice, based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He has extensive experience representing clients in various bankruptcy matters and is consistently ranked as a leading bankruptcy lawyer in top legal directories. Mr. Rawlins principally represents funds, lending institutions, companies, and committees in providing a broad spectrum of services, including counseling on corporate governance matters, fund formation, acquisitions, divestitures, debt offerings, refinancings, and recapitalizations, with an emphasis on distressed and special situations.
Recent Representations
Select Lender/Creditor Representations
- U.S. Well Services (counsel to ad hoc group of lenders)
- Chain of beauty salons and med spas (counsel to agent)
- Leading shoes, clothing and apparel line (counsel to agent)
- Proserv (counsel to ancillary facility lenders)
- 360 (counsel to agent for term loan lender)
- Macaroni Grill (counsel to DIP lender and exit facility lender)
- Hospitality distribution systems company (counsel to agent)
- Logistics provider (counsel to agent)
- BreitBurn Energy Partners LP (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- New York-based jewelry manufacturer and retailer (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- National restaurant chain (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- Leading provider of hydraulic fracking services (counsel to steering committee of second lien lenders)
- TXCO Resources, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company (counsel to steering committee of second lien lenders and DIP lender)
- Storm Cat USA, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company (counsel to agent of second lien lenders, DIP lenders, and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- Z2, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company (counsel to agent)
- Select Staffing (counsel to steering committee of second lien lenders)
- Advanced Molecular Imaging and Gamma Medica, molecular breast imaging companies (counsel to second lien lender and purchaser of assets under 363 sale)
- Consolidated Freightways Corporation (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- Custom Foods Products, Inc. (counsel to lender, DIP lender, and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- MMFX Steel (counsel to unsecured “deficiency claim” creditor and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- Phillips Cattle Company, Inc. (counsel to agent)
- Douglas Furniture (counsel to agent)
- Leading baby safety/car seat company (counsel to agent)
- Hospice provider (counsel to agent)
- Scotia Development LLC (counsel to prepetition lender, DIP lender, and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- Westcliff Medical Laboratories, Inc. (counsel to agent)
- Ghana Airways (counsel to aircraft lessor)
Select Company/Trustee Representations (In and Out-of-Court)
- Relativity Media (counsel to company)
- United Road Towing (counsel to company)
- Condor Systems, Inc. and CEI Systems, Inc., defense contractors (counsel to company)
- SK Foods, an agribusiness and tomato processor (counsel to company and chapter 11 trustee)
- California-based insurance company (counsel to company)
- A leading designer and manufacturer of products for optical communications networks and other optics solutions (counsel to company)
- Los Angeles-based clothing manufacturer and retailer in workout of loan by US Bank (counsel to company)
- Natural gas production company (counsel to sponsor)
- Destination Films, an independent film company (counsel to chapter 7 trustee)
- American Pacific Financial Corporation, an asset management firm (counsel to chapter 7 trustee)
- A significant paint retailer (counsel to company)
- A global specialty steel company (counsel to company and sponsor)
- A Washington-based wine bottle manufacturer (counsel to company and sponsor)
- Clothing manufacturer and retailer (counsel to company and sponsor)
Select 363 Sale/Buyer Representations
- Auto Masters, LLC (represented acquirer of substantially all auto loans)
- Los Angeles Dodgers (represented acquirer of substantially all assets)
- Los Angeles Sparks (represented acquirer of substantially all assets)
- Kreiss, Inc., a furniture designer and retailer (represented acquirer of substantially all assets )
- Jumio, Inc., an identity management and credentials company (represented acquirer of substantially all assets)
- RealD, Inc., a visual technology company (represented investor in connection with take private)
- Haggen, Inc. (counsel to bidder on substantially all core assets)
- Qimonda, a leading global memory supplier (counsel to bidder)
- Rhythm and Hues, a post-production company (counsel to bidder)
Creditors’ Committee Representations
- Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
- Cable & Wireless USA, Inc.
- Citation Corporation
- Meridian Automotive, Inc.
- Merisant