Biography
Lauded by clients in Chambers USA for his ability to tackle “the most complicated situations with calm and steady advice,” Sunny routinely advises on matters spanning a wide range of industries, such as energy, technology, retail, infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate and financial services. In addition to his Chambers recognition, Sunny has been recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” for Restructuring and Insolvency in the U.S. by IFLR1000 and as a “Rising Star” by several organizations and publications, including the American Bankruptcy Institute, Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, Law360 and Turnarounds & Workouts.
Sunny clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Drain at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2008.
Representative Experience
Company-side Experience:
- Finance of America, a modern retirement solutions platform that provides customers with access to an innovative range of retirement offerings, in connection with a comprehensive out-of-court exchange of its senior unsecured notes of $350 million.*
- CWT Travel Holdings, Inc., a global business travel and meetings solutions provider with operations all over the world, in connection with its out-of-court recapitalization and restructuring transactions that resulted in equitizing $625 million of CWT’s senior notes and obtaining $150 million incremental liquidity to support the Company’s operations.*
- Anagram Holdings, LLC, a leading manufacturer of foil balloons and inflated décor, in connection with its chapter 11 cases and the sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets.*
- FR BR Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of First Reserve and a 50% JV Partner in Blue Racer Midstream, in connection with a comprehensive recapitalization transaction that strengthened and deleveraged FR BR’s balance sheet.*
- Ruby Pipeline, LLC, a developer and operator of interstate natural gas pipeline and supplier of natural gas to consumers in California, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest, in connection with its chapter 11 cases.
- MediaMath Holdings Inc. and its affiliates, a leading provider of digital media trading technology and services, in connection with a comprehensive, out-of-court recapitalization transaction, through which certain existing shareholders and financial stakeholders committed to invest up to $150 million through a mix of new capital and a refinancing of existing debt.
- ORG GC Midco, LLC, a leading provider of Accounts Receivable Management and Business Process Outsourcing solutions in North America, in its chapter 11 case with approximately $210 million in funded debt obligations.
- Basic Energy Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest oilfield service companies with more than 2,400 employees, in connection with its chapter 11 cases and sale of substantially all of its assets.
- Exide Holdings, Inc. and its affiliated debtors, a global lead-acid batteries manufacturing company, in their chapter 11 cases. In less than 5 months, Exide completed two going concern sale and separation transactions for its U.S. and European/Rest of World businesses (including the negotiation of long-term commercial arrangements among them) and also accomplished a first of its kind global settlement with the Department of Justice and more than 10 state regulators to resolve hundreds of millions of dollars of Exide’s historical environmental liabilities at more than 20 dormant locations.
- Floatel International Ltd, a global provider of offshore accommodation and construction support services to the oil and gas industry in its out-of-court restructuring.
- Fairway Group Holdings Corporation and its affiliated debtors in connection with their chapter 11 cases to implement a stalking horse bid and strategic sale process designed to facilitate a global auction to secure buyers for all of Fairway’s stores.
- Fusion Connect, Inc., and its domestic subsidiaries, a telecommunications services provider, in connection with their chapter 11 cases with liabilities in excess of $650 million.
- Ditech Holding Corporation, one of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, and certain of its affiliated debtors in connection with their pre-arranged chapter 11 cases, involving $2 billion in debt, including residential mortgage securities funding obligations.
- Sears Holdings Corporation and its affiliated debtors, one of the largest retail chapter 11 cases in history, to address approximately $6 billion in debt.
- Tops Supermarkets, a regional supermarket chain with approximately 14,000 employees and $1 billion in debt, in connection with its successful chapter 11 restructuring.
- Southeastern Grocers LLC, the fifth-largest supermarket chain in the United States, in connection with its prepackaged chapter 11 reorganization involving more than $1 billion in debt.
- Walter Investment Management, Inc., the fifth largest mortgage servicer in the United States, in connection with its restructuring efforts related to more than $2 billion in funded debt obligations.
- J.Crew Group, Inc., one of the nation’s premier clothing retailers with approximately $2 billion in funded debt, in connection with its groundbreaking out-of-court exchange, which won the Financial Times North America Innovative Lawyers Report 2017 award for “Accessing New Markets and Capital.”
- Central Grocers, Inc., which was the 7th largest grocery cooperative in the US prior to its filing, in connection with its chapter 11 cases involving the sale of their retail grocery and distribution operations.
- American Gilsonite Company and its affiliates in connection with their prepackaged restructuring cases.
- Fairway Group Holdings and its subsidiaries, an iconic New York supermarket, in connection with their prepackaged chapter 11 cases that was recognized as the 2017 Consumer Staples Deal of the Year (over $100 million) by The M&A Advisor.
- The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) and its subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases commenced in 2015.
- AMR Corporation and its US subsidiaries, including American Airlines, Inc. in their chapter 11 restructuring and merger with US Airways.
- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its affiliates in their historic bankruptcy cases.
Notable Creditor/Sponsor/Other Experience:
- H.I.G. Capital LLC (“H.I.G.”) in its capacity as majority equity holder of Mobileum, Inc. in Mobileum’s chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.*
- Phoenix Tower International, the largest tower lessor to the debtors and co-chair of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, in connection with the chapter 11 cases of WOM S.A., one of the largest Chilean telecom operators.*
- Carrier Corporation in connection with the chapter 11 case of its subsidiary, Kidde-Fenwal Inc.*
- The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Cineworld Group PLC with approximately $5.35 billion in total funded debt obligations.
- HPS Investment Partners, as term lender to Envision Healthcare Corporation, one of the nation’s largest medical group management services organizations, and new first- and second-lien lender to Amsurg, the ambulatory surgery division of Envision, in connection with Envision’s out-of-court recapitalization transactions.
- Ad hoc group of RigCo Lenders in Seadrill Limited’s chapter 11 cases. Seadrill Limited is one of the world’s largest international offshore drilling contractors, and owns or leases more than 7% of the world’s fleet, with operations in 15 countries.
- General Electric Company and its affiliates, as sponsor, in connection with the prepackaged chapter 11 case of Homer City Generation L.P., a coal-fired, independent power production plant with $600 million in secured debt prior to its filing.
*Experience gained at previous firm
Firm News & Announcements
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Welcomes Back Sunny Singh to Serve as Restructuring Department Co-Chair Press Release — December 13, 2024