Mendy Fox

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Fox’s practice is primarily focused on advising debtors, creditors, equity holders and potential investors on tax matters related to all aspects of in-court and out-of-court restructurings, special situations and financing transactions (including, liability management transactions).

Mr. Fox’s recent work includes the following: 

Select company representations

• Aventiv Technologies in multiple new money and uptier refinancing transactions and an equitization transaction involving more than $1.6 billion of first and second lien liabilities.
• Cision in connection with a $250 million new money financing and a $2.4 billion recapitalization of its credit facilities and senior notes.
• Oregon Tool in connection with a $150 million new money financing and a $1.3 billion recapitalization of its credit facilities and senior notes.
• Petmate in a restructuring and equitization of over $800 million of liabilities.
• A consumer goods company in connection with an equitization and restructuring of over $550 million of liabilities. 

Select creditor representations

• Elliott Investment Management as the anchor lender to Magenta Buyer in drop-down liability management transactions that raised $400 million of new money and refinanced over $4 billion of first and second lien liabilities.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to Tosca Services in connection with a $100 million super-priority new money and $600 million uptier refinancing transaction.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to SI Group in connection with a $1.8 billion uptier recapitalization transaction.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to Summit Behavioral Healthcare in connection with a $125 million super-priority new money and $800 million refinancing transaction.
• An ad hoc group of noteholders to Office Properties Income Trust in connection with a more than $275 million notes exchange.
• An ad hoc group of noteholders to Nexeo/GPD in connection with a $485 million notes exchange.
• An ad hoc group of senior lenders to Sinclair Broadcast Group in connection with a recapitalization and refinancing of more than $4.25 billion of the company’s debt.
• A private credit lender to a home comfort product company in connection with an equitization and restructuring transaction of more than $350 million of liabilities.
• A private credit lender to two companies in connection with an equitization and restructuring of more than $1.5 billion of liabilities and business combination transaction.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to Rodan + Fields in connection with a $75 million new money financing and equitization and restructuring transaction of more than $550 million of liabilities.
• An ad hoc group of lenders to a technology solutions provider in connection with an equitization and restructuring transaction of approximately $1 billion of the company’s debt.
• A member of an ad hoc group of lenders to Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI)/Fortrex in connection with an equitization and restructuring transaction of approximately $1.5 billion of the company’s debt.
• An ad hoc group of lenders to Anastasia Beverly Hills in connection with a restructuring transaction of more than $600 million of the company’s debt.
• An ad hoc committee of noteholders and lenders to the Lycra group in connection with a restructuring transaction.
• A private credit lender to a fintech transportation company in connection with an equitization and restructuring transaction of more than $110 million of the company’s debt.
• A private credit lender to a communications company in connection with an equitization and restructuring transaction of more than $200 million of the company’s debt. 

Select chapter 11 creditor representations

• An ad hoc group of secured term lenders to each of Anthology Inc., Careismatic Brands LLC, Exactech, Inc., Hornblower Group, Mobileum, Inc., Multi-Color Corporation, Nine Energy Service, Inc., Pretium Packaging, L.L.C., and Steward Health Care System LLC in connection with their chapter 11 proceedings. 

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Fox earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School and served as a member of the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. Mr. Fox also received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law and his B.A. from Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary.