Alex’s recent Chapter 11 experience includes representing:

• Talen Energy Supply as special corporate and M&A counsel in Talen’s Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Texas;
• Revlon as special counsel in its Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of New York;
• a national government as the largest creditor and shareholder of Scandinavian Airlines in its Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of New York;
• SCR Sibelco NV as the largest shareholder of Covia Holdings Corporation in Covia’s Chapter 11 cases, including mounting a successful defense against an attempt by Covia’s Unsecured Creditors’ Committee to obtain standing to prosecute nearly $1 billion in alleged fraudulent transfer and related claims against Sibelco. Obtained full releases for Sibelco of these and other claims;
• Crédit Industriel et Commercial as a creditor in the Chapter 11 cases of Seadrill Limited in the Southern District of New York;
• the former directors and officers of a liquidating clothing wholesale and retail company, in connection with lawsuits brought by the litigation trustee appointed in the company’s Chapter 11 case;
• Barings LLC, in a successful attempt to appoint an examiner in the Chapter 11 case of Parker Drilling Company, and in a challenge to Parker Drilling’s proposed Chapter 11 plan of reorganization in the Southern District of Texas;
• Subsea 7, a leading global subsea operator, as a purchaser in a § 363 sale in the Chapter 11 cases of Toisa Limited in the Southern District of New York; and
• the majority shareholders of Nordic Aviation Capital DAC in NAC’s Chapter 11 cases in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Alex has extensive experience in Chapter 15 and other cross-border cases, including representing:

• the foreign representative of Reward Science and Technology Industry Group Company, Ltd. (PRC) in a first of its kind cross-border proceeding between China and the Southern District of New York;
• Nyrstar, a global multi-metals smelting and mining business, on its recapitalization and refinancing of $3bn of indebtedness; including representing the foreign representative of Nyrstar in a Chapter 15 process in the Southern District of New York that resulted in the US recognition of the Company’s UK Scheme of Arrangement;
• Malaysia Airlines on their global restructuring;
• Dubai Aerospace Enterprises as a creditor and lessor to Garuda Indonesia in Garuda’s PKPU insolvency proceeding in Jakarta;
• Airbus in connection with numerous restructuring and supply chain situations across the globe;
• The foreign representatives of Air Berlin (Germany) in their Chapter 15 case in the Southern District of New York;
• The foreign representatives of Limora Investments Limited (BVI) in their Chapter 15 case in the Southern District of New York;
• The foreign representatives of CAMAC International Limited (Cayman Islands) in their Chapter 15 case in the Southern District of New York; and
• Whirlpool Corporation in successful defense of a case initiated under Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code seeking discovery from Whirlpool for use in an insolvency proceeding in Germany.

Education

• JD, cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School
• BA, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Professional

• Admitted to practice in New York, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of New York and Southern District of New York
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Turnaround Management Association

Prior

• Law Clerk to United States Bankruptcy Judge Stuart M. Bernstein, Southern District of New York
• Law Clerk to United States Chief Bankruptcy Judge Kathleen H. Sanberg, District of Minnesota
• Law Clerk to United States Bankruptcy Judge Katherine A. Constantine, District of Minnesota