Richard S. Kebrdle

Constellation Oil Services Holding S.A.
Represented Constellation Oil Services Holding S.A., a provider of oil and gas contract drilling and production services in Brazil, in the restructuring of its approximately US$1.5 billion of New York law governed bonds, project financing loans, and working capital facilities. White & Case negotiated a plan support agreement with a majority of the company's creditors and its shareholders which contemplated no haircut recoveries for a majority of the company's creditors. Constellation and its international entities commenced main insolvency proceedings (recuperação judicial) in Brazil, the first time recuperação judicial was approved for a corporate group where a majority of the debtors are international entities. Constellation also commenced ancillary chapter 15 cases in the United States and light touch joint provisional liquidation proceedings in the British Virgin Islands, which is also a first in that jurisdiction. After defeating objections filed in Brazil, the United States and the BVI, the Constellation Group successfully closed its restructuring plan in December 2019, which resulted in certain creditors and shareholders investing over $100 million of new money into the group.

Oi S.A.
Represented, as international counsel, Oi S.A., one of Brazil's largest telecommunications companies, in its financial restructuring, which was implemented by way of Brazilian recuperação judicial, and which also involved insolvency proceedings in the United States (chapter 15), England, the Netherlands, Portugal and the Cayman Islands.  Pursuant to its reorganization plan, the Oi group restructured liabilities totaling over US$19 billion in value, which included (among other things) over US$10 billion in international New York and English law governed unsecured bonds, export credit facility agreements and Brazilian law governed domestic bank debt. This was the largest Brazilian and Latin American in-court restructuring of all time.

GNC Holdings
Represented Harbin Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of GNC Holdings LLC for approximately US$770 million through section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code in GNC's chapter 11 case.  The transaction involved an innovative structure in which Harbin used its credit support and banking relationships to structure the purchase as a leveraged buyout of GNC’s business.

OAS S.A.
Represented, as United States and international counsel, OAS, one of the largest construction and engineering companies in Brazil with extensive international operations in over 20 countries in Latin America and Africa, in the global restructuring of its US$1.775 billion New York law-governed bonds and local Brazilian debt.  OAS implemented its restructuring through highly contested Brazilian recuperação judicial proceedings and U.S. chapter 15 cases. White & Case negotiated a settlement and agreed a plan with the company’s creditors, which involved an extraordinarily complex acquisition structure.

Gibson Brands
Represented GSO as secured lender of approximately US$109 million in the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Gibson Brands, a musical instrument manufacturer.  White & Case successfully defeated the attempted approval of debtor-in-possession financing that would have included the purchase of certain of GSO's debt but leaving GSO with the attendant liability.  Ultimately, that debt was purchased by a group of other secured lenders, along with any attendant liability.  With respect to GSO's other debt, after engaging in litigation with the debtors over the confirmation of their proposed plan and a related mediation, a settlement was reached that significantly enhanced GSO's proposed recovery under that plan.

Chrysler LLC
Represented holders of a portion of the approximately US$7 billion in first-lien secured debt opposing the reorganization of Chrysler LLC through a section 363 sale of substantially all of its assets.

New World Resources
Represented New World Resources (NWR), a UK-based coal producer with operations throughout central Europe, in connection with the successful recognition of its UK Schemes Arrangement in the US under Chapter 15. The Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York granted full force and effect to NWR's restructuring, which also included a related €118 million rights issue and a €32 million private placing.

Rede Energia S.A.
Represented Rede Energia S.A., a large electricity producer in Brazil that had issued over USD$500 million of New York law governed perpetual notes, which were restructured pursuant to a plan approved in a Brazilian Recuperação Judicial and given full force and effect in the US by the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in a Chapter 15 proceeding. The US court's detailed ruling in Rede is considered a landmark decision with respect to the recognition of Brazilian restructuring proceedings in the US.

Central European Distribution Corporation ("CEDC")
Represented Roust Trading Ltd. (RTL), the owner of Russian Standard Vodka, in a multijurisdictional restructuring, in which RTL ultimately acquired CEDC, a leading producer and distributor of spirits in Russia, Poland and Hungary. The transaction was effected through CEDC's chapter 11 filing in Delaware, and delivered 100 percent ownership of the debtor to RTL, now the world’s second-largest vodka producer. This challenging transaction won the 2014 Global Finance Deal of the Year in the category of Restructuring and Insolvency in Europe at the annual American Lawyer's Global Legal Awards.

Senior Secured Lenders of TORM A/S
Worked with an international team to advise the coordinating committee of secured lenders of TORM A/S in connection with the company's successful, cross-border restructuring. TORM, which is headquartered and listed in Copenhagen, is one of the world's largest overseas shipping companies in the produce tanker and dry bulk market.

Ad Hoc Group of Six Flags, Inc. Noteholders
Represented the parent-level noteholders in the Chapter 11 case of Six Flags Amusement Parks, the largest amusement park operator in the world, in their successful effort to acquire the company through new debt and equity financings. This successful acquisition proceeded in place of the company's previously proposed plan, which would have provided the parent-level lenders with a de minimis recovery.

Ad Hoc Group of First-Lien Lenders of Chrysler LLC
Represented holders of a portion of the approximately US$7 billion in first-lien secured debt opposing the reorganization of Chrysler LLC through a section 363 sale of substantially all of its assets.

Ad Hoc Group of Noteholders of Elpida
Represented a steering committee comprised of members of an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of Elpida Memory Inc. in Elpida's chapter 15 case.

Ad Hoc Group of Arahova Noteholders (Adelphia Communications)
Represented the Ad Hoc Committee of Arahova Noteholders collectively owed more than US$550 million by Adelphia's indirect subsidiary, Arahova Communications, in one of the largest (US$18 billion of debt) and most contentious US Chapter 11 cases administered in the Southern District of New York.

Ad Hoc Group of Vitro Noteholders
Represented an ad hoc group of creditors holding a majority of the US$1.2 billion in senior notes issued by Vitro S.A.B. de C.V., in Vitro's Chapter 11 and Chapter 15 cases. Vitro's restructuring was one of the most contentious cross-border restructurings in the US to date.