Craige, Chris

Chris Craige

Counsel

chris.craige@lw.com
    Craige, Chris

    Chris Craige

    Counsel

    chris.craige@lw.com

    Profile

    Christina (Chris) Craige represents debtors, creditors (including bond insurers), and other parties-in-interest in a variety of restructuring and insolvency-related matters, including out-of-court refinancings, corporate modernizations, liability divestitures, and chapter 11 and chapter 9 proceedings. Chris has particular experience in restructurings involving products liability and mass tort litigation.

    Chris co-chairs the board of the IWIRC Washington DC Network.

    Chris regularly prepares and guides companies through complex chapter 11 proceedings. Her work includes:

    • Providing strategic advice to boards and in-house counsel in connection with pending and potential restructuring transactions and proceedings
    • Negotiating, drafting, and implementing chapter 11 plans of reorganization
    • Drafting and negotiating sale documents and requests for court approval of section 363 asset sales

    Chris advises clients in distressed situations across industries including:

    • Automotive
    • Energy exploration and production, and related services
    • Hospitality
    • Industrials and manufacturing
    • Print and film media
    • Real estate
    • Retail and consumer products 

    Experience

    Chris’ experience includes advising in the following public matters:

    Mass Tort Experience

    • Barretts Minerals Inc. (chapter 11; client, Debtors) 
    • Whittaker, Clark & Daniels, Inc. (chapter 11; client, creditor and co-defendant)
    • Paddock Enterprises, formerly known as Owens-Illinois, Inc. (chapter 11; client, Debtors)
    • Imerys Talc America (chapter 11; client, Debtors)
    • The Boy Scouts of America (chapter 11; client, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
    • The Flintkote Company (chapter 11; client, Debtors)*
    • Federal Mogul (chapter 11 and UK Administrations; client, Debtors)*
    • Yarway Corporation (chapter 11; client, Debtor)*

    Other Debtor Representations

    • Sorrento Therapeutics (biopharma company)
    • Starry Group (wireless internet provider)
    • Lucky Brand Dungarees (retail)
    • Sable Permian Resources (oil & gas company)
    • Real Mex Restaurants (hospitality)*
    • Key Energy Services (oil & gas services provider)*
    • Chicago National League Ball Club (baseball team)*
    • Lee Enterprises (media company)*
    • R.H. Donnelly (print company)*

    Creditor and Other Constituent Representations

    • Metropolitan Automotive Warehouse (chapter 11; client, official creditors committee)*
    • North Country BBQ Ventures (chapter 11; client, secured lender)*
    • Olympic Sales (chapter 11; client, Brunswick Corporation as purchaser)*
    • In re S&B Surgery Center (chapter 11; client, Fortress Credit Corp. as litigation defendant)*
    • In re Fundamental Long-Term Care (chapter 7; client, General Electric Credit Corp. as litigation defendant)*

    Municipal Restructurings

    • Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Title III (PROMESA), client, Autonomy Capital)
    • City of Stockton, California (chapter 9, client, Assured Guaranty as bond insurer)*
    • City of San Bernardino, California (chapter 9, client, Assured Guaranty as bond insurer)*
    • Town of Mammoth Lakes, California (chapter 9, client, creditor)*

    Out-of-Court Restructurings

    • Endeavor and Silver Lake as majority equity sponsors of Learfield Communications, a leading college athletics technology, data and content firm, in its US$1.1 billion out-of-court recapitalization and restructuring
    • Bird Global, an electric scooter and bike-sharing company, in connection with its out-of-court recapitalization and merger transaction with Bird Canada

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California
    • District of Columbia

    Education

    • JD, Yale Law School, 2006
    • MBA, Yale School of Management, 2006
    • BA, Rutgers University, 2001
      summa cum laude, Henry-Rutgers-Scholar

    Practices

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