Large corporate restructurings increasingly feature deals that let most creditors participate but on starkly different terms, reflecting how the rise of powerful equity sponsors has shaped debt workouts both in and out of court, according to a recent paper by Robert Miller, a professor at the University of South Dakota School of Law.
EEW American Offshore Structures Inc., a builder of foundations for offshore wind turbines, has tapped a team of lawyers from Connell Foley LLP to guide it through a Chapter 11 proceeding it launched in the wake of a canceled offshore wind energy project and litigation with a landlord.
As New Fortress Energy, which is headquartered in New York, is seeking to restructure more than $5 billion in debt in the U.K., bankruptcy experts are watching whether the costs of Chapter 11 and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision barring nonconsensual third-party releases are driving debtors to file elsewhere.