Irena Goldstein has extensive experience in representing parties involved in chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings, including debtors, creditors' committees, indenture trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, and purchasers of assets of bankrupt or otherwise distressed companies. Irena has also represented lenders in debtor-in-possession and exit financing facilities.
Irena’s clients include multinational corporations and international financial institutions in cases involving a wide range of industries, including insurance and reinsurance, information technology, health care, manufacturing and financial services. She has particular experience in matters involving energy companies, having represented parties in many of the largest chapter 11 cases in recent years.
Key Representations
Statutory Creditors’ Committee of MF Global Holdings Chapter 11 Debtors
Numerous creditors of Lehman Brothers debtors, including, Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Assured Guaranty and Hudson Castle
Mike Morrison as receiver for certain segregated funds in connection with chapter 11 proceedings of New Stream Secured Capital and related debtors
Committee of preferred equity interest holders in Innkeepers
JPMorgan Securities and Anchorage Capital in connection with bankruptcy proceedings of Bally Total Fitness
Exit financing lenders to Spansion and NorthWestern Energy
Enron, as special counsel, the sales of numerous retail energy contracts among other matters
the purchaser of assets from a subsidiary of chapter 11 debtor Mirant Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company in the bankruptcy case of Calpine Corporation and affiliated debtors
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Other Key Representations
Banco Cuscatlan de El Salvador as a significant creditor of Refco Capital Markets
Trenwick America Corporation and its affiliates in their chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Delaware
the equity participant in a leveraged lease with chapter 11 debtor Covanta Energy
PG&E Corp. in its defense of litigation commenced by National Energy Group in its bankruptcy case
the purchaser of substantially all of the assets of a bankrupt insurance holding company
Wachovia Bank, N.A. (f/k/a First Union National Bank), as trustee of a trust containing $1 billion of securitized accounts receivable of a bankrupt furniture manufacturer
numerous indenture trustees in connection with bankruptcy cases across the country
the secured pre-petition lender to a bankrupt hospital
the official creditors' committee of MicroAge, Inc. and related debtors
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