Morrison Foerster’s MoFo Restructuring Round-Up provides our analysis of the statutory, regulatory, legal and business-related developments in the insolvency and restructuring world. Our goal is to provide timely, helpful, insightful and digestible content that will help you keep abreast of the trends that are shaping the industry.<h2>MORRISON FOERSTER’S BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING & INSOLVENCY GROUP</h2>We counsel clients around the globe on corporate distress. We advise debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees, secured lenders, and specialist investors and are confident in advising on significant multi-jurisdictional cases. The breadth of our practice allows us to find solutions for a broad range of participants in distressed markets and to help them find their way through their most complex issues. We are creative, pragmatic problem solvers and we know the restructuring world well.<h2>ABOUT MORRISON FOERSTER</h2>Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia‑Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values. Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to creating a culture that respects and celebrates differences, while providing an inclusive environment. The firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus since 2018 as a result of successfully reaching at least 30 percent women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyer representation in a notable number of current leadership roles and committees. The firm also has a long history of commitment to the community and society through providing pro bono legal services, including litigating for civil rights and civil liberties, improving public education and fostering the wellbeing of children, advocating for veterans, promoting international human rights, enforcing the right to asylum, and safeguarding the environment.

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Amrit Khosa is an of counsel based in the London office of Morrison Foerster and a member of the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group.Amrit advises clients on complex UK and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters including distressed investing, loan to own strategies and M&A. He has experience advising a range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including financial institutions, investment funds, bondholders, ad hoc committees, corporate debtors and insolvency practitioners.Amrit’s experience extends to advising on a range of special situations, bespoke lending opportunities and more recently oil and gas related work following his two and half years as Senior Legal Counsel at Maersk Drilling A/S.Amrit has an M.Phil in Modern South Asian Studies from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge where he was a Lady Katherine Barnardiston (1633) Scholar. He has a B.A in German and History from University College London and completed his law conversion at BPP Law School.Before joining Morrison Foerster, Amrit was a senior legal counsel at Maersk Drilling in Copenhagen advising on a range of oil and gas drilling related matters. Prior to that he was a senior associate on the restructuring and special situations team at a leading international UK-based law firm.Amrit is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.

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Amrit Khosa is an of counsel based in the London office of Morrison Foerster and a member of the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Amrit advises clients on complex UK and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters including distressed investing, loan to own strategies and M&A. He has experience advising a range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including financial institutions, investment funds, bondholders, ad hoc committees, corporate debtors and insolvency practitioners.

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Howard Morris heads the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group in the London office. He’s a well-known restructuring lawyer with 30 years’ experience in the field.Howard is one of the few English lawyers with hands on experience of the U.S. Chapter 11 process from the years he spent in New York. He’s worked around the world and was the elected chief executive of a leading international law firm for two terms. That experience of managing a large international business and leading it into its trans-Atlantic combination makes him a highly effective adviser at the highest levels of corporate business. As modern restructuring practice embraces increasingly sophisticated tools and methods to manage liability, to preserve businesses and realise value out of financially challenging situations, Howard has the technical, practical and strategic insight and expertise needed.Howard has a number of roles in professional organizations, for example he is on the Board of the International Insolvency Institute and III’s Projects Committee, R3’s General Technical Committee and the Editorial Board of Recovery Magazine. As well as being a regular speaker Howard is a recognised thought leader.Howard is a solicitor and also an accredited Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution mediator, and he is particularly interested in mediating disputes arising out of restructurings and insolvency proceedings.

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Howard heads the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group in the London office. He has more than 25 years’ experience in UK and international restructuring and insolvency work and has acted for banks, other secured and unsecured creditors, ad hoc committees, trade creditors, debtors, and acquirers of business and assets from insolvent companies. Howard’s experience covers every type of UK restructuring and insolvency procedure and he is one of the few English lawyers with hands on experience with the U.S. Chapter 11 process.

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The Honorable James M. Peck chairs Morrison Foerster’s Cross-Border Restructuring practice and also heads the firm’s Mediation practice. Before joining Morrison Foerster, former Judge Peck served as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2014, where he presided over the chapter 11 and SIPA cases of Lehman Brothers and its affiliates and a number of other major chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases and wrote multiple legal decisions that have helped define the impact of safe harbors on qualified financial contracts.Former Judge Peck belongs to many professional organizations and has served in an extensive variety of leadership roles. By invitation, he is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance. He is a past president of the International Insolvency Institute, served on the board of governors of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and was judicial chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s annual New York City Bankruptcy Conference. Former Judge Peck currently chairs the Business Bankruptcy Advisory Committee for the Southern District of New York.Former Judge Peck co-chaired the ABI’s Advisory Committee on the Safe Harbors. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Asian Business Law Institute, is listed as a qualified member of mediation panels maintained by INSOL International, the Singapore Mediation Center, and the Singapore International Mediation Center, and has been included on the Panel of Arbitrators for Financial Services Disputes of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center.Former Judge Peck has been retained on a number of occasions to furnish expert witness statements for submission to the High Court in London regarding issues of New York law, comity, and the recognition of main and non-main insolvency proceedings. He is also a frequent speaker worldwide on insolvency issues and has participated as a keynote speaker and a panel chair around the globe in conferences presented by numerous international organizations and law schools. These include INSOL International, the International Bar Association, INSOL Europe, and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He has authored articles published in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal and International Insolvency & Restructuring Report, and is an editor of a recently published book titled The Art of the Ad Hoc.Before his judicial appointment, former Judge Peck was in private practice for over 35 years, concentrating much of that time on bankruptcy law, business reorganization, and creditors’ rights. He was a partner in the reorganization and finance section of Duane Morris LLP and co‑head of the business reorganization department of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

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The Honorable James M. Peck is head of Morrison Foerster’s Cross-Border Restructuring practice. Before joining Morrison & Foerster, former Judge Peck served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2014. During his judicial service, former Judge Peck presided over the chapter 11 and SIPA cases of Lehman Brothers and its affiliates and a number of other major chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases. As a judge, he has written multiple legal decisions that have helped to define the impact of the safe harbors on qualified financial contracts.

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Lorenzo is global co-chair of the firm wide Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group. Lorenzo represents debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, and litigation. His cases have spanned the United States as well as countless industries, such as airline and cargo transportation, mortgage origination and servicing, retail, banking and finance, energy, oil and gas, and telecommunications.Lorenzo has represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in numerous recent chapter 11 cases, including Peer Street, Incora/Wesco, Clovis Oncology, Valaris, Windstream Holdings, Inc., Cloud Peak Energy, Westmoreland Coal Company, Inc., The NORDAM Group, Inc., Avaya Inc., Armstrong Energy, Inc., 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., Peabody Energy, Inc., Energy Future Holdings, Corp., and UCI International, Inc.Lorenzo’s deep experience and capabilities advising on precedent-setting bankruptcy and restructuring matters have not gone unnoticed. He is listed as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA and has also been recommended by The Legal 500 US. He was also designated by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine as an Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer for his accomplishments in 2016 and 2017.

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Lorenzo is global co-chair of the firmwide Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group. Lorenzo represents debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, and litigation. His cases have spanned the United States as well as countless industries, such as airline and cargo transportation, mortgage origination and servicing, retail, banking and finance, energy, oil and gas, and telecommunications.

Lorenzo is global co-chair of the firmwide Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Lorenzo represents debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, and litigation. His cases have spanned the United States as well as countless industries, such as airline and cargo transportation, mortgage origination and servicing, retail, banking and finance, energy, oil and gas, and telecommunications.

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Howard Morris, Amrit Khosa, and Jai Mudhar discuss the Part 26A restructuring plan and the legal developments that have unfolded since its introduction.This pragmatic and informative discussion is designed to equip our clients with the latest updates to help navigate the months ahead.<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1101554182&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" title="MoFo Perspectives - The Part 26A Restructuring Plan" allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="100%" title="iframe"></iframe>

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