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About Caroline
Caroline's practice focuses financial restructuring and complex commercial litigation. She has experience representing secured creditors and debtors in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and bankruptcy cases involving single asset real estate debtors. She also advises clients in diverse litigation matters, including insurance recovery, trade secrets, fiduciary duty, energy-related litigation, personal injury defense, and business torts.
Experience
Recent Notable Matters
Mid-South Electric Cooperative — Chapter 11 case of debtor Brazos Electric Cooperative, the largest generation and transmission cooperative in Texas, forced to file for bankruptcy protection as a result of Winter Storm Uri, as an owner-member and creditor
Credit Agricole — implementation of a DIP financing of $2.81 billion, which enabled debtor McDermott to operate in bankruptcy and exit Chapter 11 with financing of $2.4 billion in letter of credit capacity and $544 million in funded debt, as DIP lender and agent
Echo Energy Partners I, LLC — Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, whereby it sold substantially all of its SCOOP/Stack assets to HPS Investment Partners LLC via section 363 for approximately $32.96 million, as debtor
Colorado Third Street, LLC — single asset real estate Chapter 11 case WC 4th and Colorado, LP (a property in downtown Austin, Texas held at the time of filing by World Class Capital), that ultimately led to the lifting of the automatic stay and a foreclosure sale under state law, resulting in a successful credit bid for the debtor’s property
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. — Chapter 11 cases of Alta Mesa Holdings, which involved the sale of oil and gas assets in the SCOOP/STACK plays of Oklahoma to a private equity backed vehicle of Bayou City Energy Management and Mach Resources, as lenders' counsel to the group behind the upstream debtor
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. — Chapter 11 cases of Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., including implementing a $125 million superpriority senior secured debtor in possession credit facility and providing an exit facility upon emergence, as administrative agent under a $1.5 billion secured prepetition revolving facility
SoCo, LP — single asset real estate Chapter 11 case WC 4811 South Congress, LLC (a property near downtown Austin, Texas held at the time of filing by World Class Capital), that ultimately led to the lifting of the automatic stay and a foreclosure sale under state law, resulting in a successful credit bid for the debtor’s property
Burnet, LP — single asset real estate Chapter 11 case WC Teakwood Plaza, LLC (a property near downtown Austin, Texas held at the time of filing by World Class Capital), that ultimately led to the lifting of the automatic stay and a foreclosure sale under state law, resulting in a successful credit bid for the debtor’s property
Rockies Express Pipeline LLC — contract rejection claim with potential exposure of approximately $800 million in connection with the Gulfport Energy Corp. Chapter 11 restructuring, which resulted in an consensual resolution following actions before both the bankruptcy court and regulators