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Gordon Z. Novod
Gordon Z. Novod
Partner
Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring
Gordon Z. Novod
Partner
Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring
Gordon Novod focuses his practice on complex corporate restructuring and creditors’ rights. He frequently represents ad hoc and official committees, distressed investors, lenders, indenture trustees, trade creditors, and other parties-in-interest in bankruptcy-related proceedings, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed asset and debt transactions. His industry experience spans the automotive, chemical, construction, energy, entertainment, gaming, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. He has negotiated, drafted and litigated various aspects of chapter 11 plans and plan-related agreements, contested debtor-in-possession financing and cash collateral use, the pursuit of fraudulent conveyance actions, and other matters involving bankruptcy motion and litigation practice. He also advises clients on complex corporate and credit documents, including indentures, credit agreements, inter-creditor agreements, security agreements, and other documents related to lending transactions.
In 2012, Gordon was named a winner of the M&A Advisor "40 Under 40 East Award," and was also named to Super Lawyers' "Rising Stars." In 2011, Gordon was selected by the editors of Law360 as a “Rising Star” in bankruptcy and corporate restructuring – one of only five bankruptcy attorneys in the country named to Law360's list of lawyers under 40 to watch.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Tribune Company (indenture trustee)
- Central European Distribution Corporation (ad hoc Committee of Convertible Noteholders)
- Lehman Brothers (ad hoc consortium of claimholders of Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc.)
- Lyondell Chemical Company (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- Barnes Bay Development, Ltd. (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. (indenture trustee)
- Green Valley Ranch Gaming, LLC (ad hoc consortium of second lien lenders)
- Herbst Gaming, Inc. (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- General Motors Corporation (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- Charter Communications (ad hoc first lien lender group)
- WCI Steel, Inc. (ad hoc noteholders’ committee and indenture trustee)
- Delphi Corporation (member of Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors
- Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- WestPoint Stevens Inc. (second lien agent)
- High Voltage Engineering Corporation (administrative agent)
- Midway Games Inc. (secured lender)
- Grace Industries, Inc. (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- ASARCO LLC (majority bondholders)
- TransCare Corp. (Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- Wave Wireless Corp. (secured lender)
- Diomed, Inc. (licensor and chairman of Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)
- Buffets Holdings, Inc. (ad hoc noteholders’ committee)
- Micro Warehouse, Inc. (debtor)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
-
American Bankruptcy Institute
- New York City Bar Association's Committe on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Mickey’s Kids, Member of Board of Directors
BAR ADMISSIONS
- New York Bar
- Connecticut Bar
- United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of
New York - United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit