Helena Tseregounis

Helena’s experience includes advising:

Company-Side Representations

• Barretts Minerals Inc., a minerals company in its chapter 11 proceeding to manage its talc-related litigation liabilities
• Anchor Brewing, representing the assignee in the sale and wind-down of Anchor Brewing’s assets
• Monitronics International, Inc., a security alarm monitoring company, in its prepackaged chapter 11 proceeding
• Plastiq, Inc., a B2B payments business, in its out-of-court negotiations and sale process
• Global Eagle Entertainment, a media services and satellite connectivity provider to the transportation industry, in its chapter 11 proceeding, resulting in a successful section 363 sale
• Paddock Enterprises, an affiliate of public company O-I Glass, in its chapter 11 proceeding to resolve its legacy asbestos liabilities
• Imerys Talc America, a talc mining company with North American operations, in chapter 11 proceedings to manage personal injury litigation and pursue a section 524(g)/105(a) channeling injunction, resulting in a successful section 363 sale
• Key Energy Services, a publicly traded, onshore well services company, in its prepackaged chapter 11 proceeding, resulting in a successful reorganization of the company’s funded debt*
• The Flintkote Company, a manufacturing company, in a chapter 11 proceeding that resulted in a section 524(g) channeling injunction and the formation of a trust to administer the company’s asbestos-related liabilities*

Credit and Investor Representations

• EPR Properties, a real estate investment trust, as the largest landlord and a member of the UCC in movie theater chain Cineworld Group Plc’s chapter 11 proceedings
• Neiman Marcus Group Inc. in the chapter 11 proceeding of its subsidiary, operating company Neiman Marcus Group Ltd.
• GSO Capital Partners, as second-lien lender and plan sponsor, in Legacy Resources chapter 11 cases
• Honda North America in Takata’s bankruptcy cases, resulting in an unprecedented channeling injunction to resolve present and future personal injury claims*
• Municipal bond insurers in the chapter 9 reorganizations of the cities of Detroit and Stockton*
• The unsecured creditors’ committee in Metropolitan Automotive Warehouse’s chapter 11 proceedings, which resulted in the successful 363 sale of the debtors’ assets as a going concern*
• MGM Resorts International and affiliates in the chapter 11 cases of developers of The Signature Towers at MGM Grand, which resolved and settled multidistrict securities and fraud litigation brought by investors*
• AT&T, as an unsecured creditor, in chapter 9 and chapter 11 cases*

Distressed M&A

• Stuff Media in the sale of certain assets to iHeart Media, a debtor in chapter 11 proceedings
• A debtor-in-possession lender, stalking horse, and purchaser in the 363 sale of chapter 11 debtor Coda Holdings’ automotive assets*
• The potential purchaser of Freedom Communications’ media and newspaper assets in Freedom’s chapter 11 restructuring*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham