Adrienne K. Walker

Adrienne Walker is a member of the Firm's Board of Directors. She focuses her practice on restructuring and commercial finance and has significant bankruptcy litigation experience and deep capabilities advancing creditors' rights and representing debt holders in Chapter 11 and Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcies. She skillfully handles bankruptcy matters and workouts in state and federal courts, often representing strategic trade creditors, official and ad-hoc committees, bondholders, debtors, lease parties and trustees. Her commercial lending work involves advising borrowers on private equity and secured financing transactions. Adrienne works with clients in many industries, with a particular focus on life sciences, health care, retail, senior living and manufacturing.

As an experienced commercial lending attorney, Adrienne also advises both borrowers and lenders on complex debt structuring, including transactions involving traditional banks and, more often, private equity. While most of these commercial lending matters involve a distressed debt or restructuring, her foresight and planning for unforeseen distress situations makes her work with non-troubled companies an asset to any client team.

In addition, Adrienne is an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School, teaching advanced courses in business bankruptcy. Adrienne is also a frequent speaker and writer on numerous topics of interest in the bankruptcy and commercial lending fields. After law school, she served as a law clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts.

Her representative experience includes:

• Representation of Carla’s Pasta as Chapter 11 debtor in its sale of substantially all assets and confirmed plan in District of Connecticut
• Representation of The Derm Group in its out of court sale of substantially all assets to Schweiger Dermatology Group
• Representation of Bond Trustee in connection with workouts of charter school bonds for schools in Minnesota and New Jersey
• Representation of Bond Trustee in connection with workouts of senior living bonds for communities in Indiana
• Represented Bond Trustee in connection with the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation, a detention center located in Rhode Island, with respect to bond obligations in excess of $130 million
• Represented Master Trustee and Bond Trustee in connection with Clare Oaks, a CCRC located in Illinois, with respect to bond obligations in excess of $84 million
• Represented Master Trustee and Bond Trustee in connection with a distressed CCRC located in Missouri, with respect to bond obligations in excess of $50 million
• Representation of HP Hood, petitioning creditor in the involuntary Chapter 7 case of Dari Farms, filed in the District of Connecticut, as well as other creditor rights matters
• Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of the Chapter 11 case of Clark-Cutler-McDermott, filed in the District of Massachusetts
• Represented ASICS America Corporation, the largest consignor and member of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Sports Authority Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, filed in the District of Delaware
• Represented Reebok-CCM Hockey, creditor and member of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Total Hockey, Inc., Chapter 11 case, filed in the Eastern District of Missouri
• Represented Ad Hoc Committee of Dealer/Franchise Store Owners in the RadioShack Corporation Chapter 11 case, filed in the District of Delaware
• Represented Spartan Race, purchaser of the Tough Mudder assets in the involuntary Chapter 11 case of Tough Mudder, Inc., filed in the District of Delaware
• Represented Smyths Toys, purchaser of the Toys R Us European assets in the Toys R Us Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia
• Represented K.D. Pharma, purchaser of certain assets of the Sancilio Pharmaceuticals in the Chapter 11 case of Sancilio Pharmaceuticals Company, Inc., filed in the District of Delaware
• Represented Master Trustee in the City of Stockton, California, Chapter 9 case, filed in the Eastern District of California
• Represented the Ad Hoc Bondholder Committee to the Water/Sewer Bonds in the City of Detroit, Michigan, filed in the Eastern District of Michigan
• Represented assignee for the benefit of creditors of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based medical device developer