Bingham Mc Cutchen - Notable Mandates

Notable Mandates

• Stephen M. Ross in his $1.1 billion purchase of 50% of the Miami Dolphins franchise and Dolphin Stadium.
• The Ad Hoc Committee of Senior Secured Lenders who held nearly $1.6 billion in Delta Air Lines' secured debt backed by its aircraft in the company's Chapter 11 restructuring. Jane's Transport Finance awarded Bingham its Airline Restructuring Deal of the Year Award for the firm's role in Delta.
• Appointed by the court, Hideyuki Sakai served as trustee in one of Japan's largest bankruptcy cases, the corporate reorganization of Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Col, a leading Japanese company with more than 2.94 trillion yen (approximately $27 billion) in liabilities.
• Platinum Equity in numerous acquisitions and sales, including a $1.1 billion sale of PNA Group to Reliance Steel & Aluminum, and a $2 billion purchase of Ryerson Inc., a metals distributor and processor.
• Cognos Inc. in its $5 billion acquisition by IBM Corp.
• Bondholders committee in the €200 million restructuring of Schefenacker AG, a German auto parts maker.
• Energy Investors Fund in the $850 million EIF Calypso power portfolio acquisition financing.
• Filmmaker Michael Moore in a successful appeal of a defamation suit brought by a former soldier over the use of a television news interview clip in the documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11".
• AT&T in its $47 billion acquisition by Cingular.
• Time, Inc. in successful defense of a libel suit brought by a former bodyguard of Madonna over claims about him in her biography.