合伙人

Lisa A. Holl Chang

重组, 困境房地产, 特殊情况

概览

Lisa Holl Chang是孖士打芝加哥办事处重组、破产及清算业务组的律师。她向机构贷款人、银行集团、行政代理人、对冲基金、债券受托人和其他债权人就庭外解决、公司重组、破产程序和其他困境情形提供法律意见。Lisa向客户就交易的所有阶段提供法律服务,例如就复杂债务融资交易中的债权人间问题提供咨询,包括涉及第二和拆分留置权贷款、夹层融资、单批次贷款以及其他类型私人信贷融资的交易。

Lisa在工作中经常处理跨境事宜。近期,她代表债券受托人、抵押代理人和离岸账户银行就Odebrecht Oil  & Gas的重组提供法律意见,该项目在《国际金融法律评论》2018年美洲大奖评选中被评为“年度最佳重组交易”。此次重组涉及与多方合作,通过在巴西和美国的法律程序,成功重组逾25亿美元的担保票据。

Lisa丰富的执业经验还包括代表公司受托人处理各种事宜,涉及住宅抵押贷款支持证券化信托的交割后管理,如争议和诉讼事宜。

芝加哥反对性剥削联盟将Lisa评为2018年“年度公益法律服务超级巨星”,以表彰她代表性贩运幸存者成功撤销伊利诺伊州法律下卖淫罪名的工作。

入读法学院之前,Lisa曾在台北从事编辑工作。

执业经验

Lisa’s representative matters include:

  • Represented the administrative agent and revolving lender group of a $1.5 billion revolving and term loan facility in the open-market debt exchange and restructuring of $2.9 billion secured and unsecured debt of The GEO Group Inc. The Global M&A Network recognized this matter as the “Out of Court Restructuring of the Year – Large” in the 2023 Turnaround Atlas Awards.
  • Represented the administrative agent under the $500 million syndicated, multi-lender, pre-petition revolving credit facility to Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. in its Chapter 11 case, resulting in a recovery of over 92 cents on the dollar for the primarily unsecured claims of the lending group.
  • Represented GWG Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries, a publicly-traded life settlements and alternative investments company, in their Chapter 11 cases, culminating in plan confirmation and successful emergence from Chapter 11 in June 2023, resolving more than $2.1 billion in debt.
  • Represented a privately-held poultry company in connection with its out-of-court restructuring of over $700 million of existing debt and raising $250 million of new capital from existing lenders. The comprehensive restructuring led to a profitable sale of the company to a major private equity firm.
  • Represented Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as sole structuring agent and lead left arranger and bookrunner and Goldman Sachs Bank, as administrative agent, on a first-of-its-kind $6.8 billion financing consisting of $3.8 billion of senior secured high yield bonds and $3 billion of senior secured institutional term loans to MileagePlus Holdings, LLC, a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of United Airlines, Inc., with each of the loans and bonds secured by United Airlines’ loyalty program, MileagePlus and subject to a parent guarantee by United Airlines, Inc. and United Airlines, Holding Inc. and guarantees by certain other subsidiaries of United. This innovative transaction involved the contribution of intellectual property of the MileagePlus program to a newly formed offshore subsidiary that was structured to be bankruptcy remote.
  • Represented bond trustee, collateral agent and offshore accounts bank in the restructuring of Odebrecht Oil & Gas and its subsidiaries and affiliates, which was awarded “Restructuring Deal of the Year” by both the International Financial Law Review and Latin Lawyer. The restructuring involved working with multiple constituencies to successfully restructure more than $2.5 billion of secured notes through proceedings in Brazil and the United States.
  • Represented a large U.S. financial institution and a premier loan agency service company, as agents for syndicates of banks, in connection with the workout, restructuring and multijurisdictional insolvency cases of Waypoint Leasing Holdings Ltd. and its various subsidiaries. This deal was awarded “Restructuring of the Year ($1B to $10B)” at the 2019 M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards.

相关服务及行业

表彰

  • Lisa was recognized by the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation as “Pro Bono Superstar of the Year” in 2018 for her representations of survivors of sex trafficking in vacating prostitution convictions under Illinois law.

教育背景

  • University of Southern California, BS, cum laude
  • University of Wisconsin Law School, JD, summa cum laude
    Order of the Coif; Salmon Dalberg Award (outstanding member of the graduating class); Managing Editor, Wisconsin Law Review

执业资格

  • 威斯康星州
  • 伊利诺伊州

语言

  • 中文
分享