Lauren Tauro

In 2024, Lauren was named a “Rising Star” for Restructuring and Insolvency in the U.S. by IFLR1000, named to the Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation list, and “recommended” for Restructuring by Legal 500. She has contributed to various publications, including Weil’s Bankruptcy Blog and has participated in a number of Conferences, including Wharton’s Restructuring and Distressed Investing Conference.

Lauren received her J.D., magna cum laude, from St. John’s University School of Law and her B.A. from Fordham University.

Representative Experience

Debtor/Company-Side Experience:

• DRF Logistics, LLC and DRF, LLC, Pitney Bowes’ global ecommerce segment, which provides domestic ecommerce parcel services, including delivery and returns, as well as cross-border logistics, in connection with their chapter 11 cases.
• Scandinavian Airlines, a publicly traded airline based in Sweden in connection with its global restructuring and chapter 11 reorganization.
• CEC Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated debtors, an American franchisee company with iconic brands Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza with locations across 47 states and 16 foreign countries and territories, in their chapter 11 cases.
• Chisholm Oil and Gas Operating, LLC, and its affiliates, an exploration and production company focused on acquiring, developing, and producing oil and natural gas assets in the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, in their chapter 11 cases.
• Kingfisher Midstream, LLC and its subsidiaries, a midstream oil and gas services business with substantial gas processing, crude oil gathering and storage, and produced water gathering and disposal assets in the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, in their chapter 11 cases, which are jointly administered with the chapter 11 cases of Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
• Halcón Resources Corporation and its subsidiaries, an independent energy company focused on the acquisition, production, exploration, and development of onshore oil and natural gas assets, in their second prepackaged chapter 11 cases with liabilities in excess of $850 million.
• CTI Foods, LLC and its affiliates, a leading independent provider of custom food solutions to major chain restaurants in North America, in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases with liabilities in excess of $655 million.
• Takata Corporation, a Japan-based automotive parts supplier subject to massive mass tort liabilities and other creditor claims, in its global restructuring, including the chapter 11 cases of its U.S. and Mexican entities and the ultimate $1.6 billion sale to Key Safety Systems.
• Halcón Resources Corporation and certain of its affiliates, an independent energy company focused on the acquisition, production, exploration, and development of onshore oil and natural gas assets, in their first prepackaged chapter 11 cases with liabilities in excess of $2.89 billion and a reduction in debt of $1.8 billion.
• Aéropostale, Inc. and its subsidiaries, an international retail clothing company, in connection with their chapter 11 cases and their related proceeding under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

Other Experience:

• Prepetition secured lenders in chapter 11 cases of Clovis Oncology, Inc. and its affiliates, a biopharmaceutical company.
• The lead arrangers and lenders in connection with providing the approximately $2.5 billion exit facility in the chapter 11 cases of The Hertz Corporation, a global vehicle renting and leasing business, that has approximately 12,000 corporate and franchisee locations in the United States, Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and New Zealand.
• Alfa S.A.B. de C.V. in connection with its acquisition of a manufacturing facility and related assets through 363 sale in the chapter 11 cases of CabonLite Holdings LLC and its affiliated debtors.
• Universal Towers Construction, Inc., in connection with the representation of Monarch Alternative Capital in its acquisition of the Orlando Crowne Plaza hotel through the section 363 asset sale in the chapter 11 case of Universal Towers Construction, Inc.
• Unit Corporation, in connection with the representation of an ad hoc group of bondholders in the chapter 11 cases of Unit Corporation, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company.
• General Electric Company in connection with various representations, including, as owner, prepetition lender, and provider of debtor in possession financing in the chapter 11 case of WMC Mortgage, LLC, a residential mortgage originator.