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Bracewell LLP
Bracewell LLP represents domestic and global clients in restructurings across multiple industries, with the team focused on advising private investment funds, distressed debt investors, hedge funds and private equity funds. Team members, including Houston based William Wood III, handle bankruptcy litigation matters, with litigators serving as advocates in indenture disputes and in bankruptcy courts. Jason Cohen, also in Houston, focuses on debtor representation and creditors’ rights, whereas Mark Dendinger, based in New York, has broad restructuring expertise across the energy, shipping and retail industries.
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Testimonials
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‘Great Team of professionals.’
‘Jason Cohen is focused, personal, understanding and an expert.’
‘I have worked with Bracewell as local counsel on several chapter 11 matters in Texas and have found them to be very practical, thoughtful and responsive.’
‘Mark Dendinger has been a terrific co-counsel and understands how to get into the client's shoes to pursue the best outcome.’
Key clients
- The Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and Certain of its Clubs
- Ad Hoc Noteholder Group of Avaya, Inc.
- Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC as Administrative Agent Under the Prepetition Term Loan Credit Agreement
- Barclays Bank
- Bayshore Capital
- Venoco Liquidating Trust
- Rockland Capital, LLC
- Tenaska Marketing Ventures
- Ryan, LLC
- Macquarie Bank
- Denka Performance Elastomers
- Alamo Lanark, LLC
- PNC Bank, N.A.
- Timber Culebra LLC
- Mid-South Electric Cooperative Association
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Work highlights
- Representing the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and certain of its clubs (MLB) in the ongoing Chapter 11 cases of Diamond Sports Group, LLC and 29 affiliated debtors.
- Represented PNC Bank, N.A. in its capacities as DIP revolving agent and pre-petition revolving agent in the Chapter 11 cases of QualTek Services Inc. in the Southern District of Texas.
- Represented the Oaktree Fund Administration, LLC as administrative agent under the prepetition term loan credit agreement in the Chapter 11 cases of Athenex, Inc. and five of its subsidiaries.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
William Wood III