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Nyle Hussain is an associate in Ropes & Gray's business restructuring group.
During law school, Nyle was an editor on the Chicago Journal of International Law (CJIL). In February 2020, he spoke at CJIL’s annual symposium about interpreting the Genocide Convention to encompass the cultural destruction of the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang. Nyle also provided legal services to indigent tenants in the Chicago area as part of his law school’s Housing and Poverty Law Clinic.
Experience
- Represented Brown University Health, a leading academic healthcare system based in Providence, Rhode Island, in its purchase of Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River and Morton Hospital in Taunton, Massachusetts, for $175 million in the Steward Health Care System bankruptcy.
- Represented Aimbridge Hospitality and its affiliates in connection with an agreement to implement a comprehensive deleveraging of its approximately $1.3 billion in funded debt, involving an equitization of approximately $1.1 billion in senior and junior debt obligations and the infusion of $100 million in new capital. Aimbridge is the leading third-party hotel management company, managing over 1,000 hotels globally and employing approximately 44,000 individuals.
- Represented SEKO Logistics, a global end-to-end logistics partner with nearly 50 years of logistics expertise and 150 offices in more than 60 countries, in its 2024 comprehensive out of court recapitalization, which was supported across SEKO’s capital structure by its key stakeholders and included significant new money investment.
- Represented TGI Friday’s Inc. and its affiliated debtors in their chapter 11 cases, including the sale of substantially all of their assets pursuant to section 363. TGI Friday’s and its affiliates own and operate a chain of casual dining restaurants throughout the country, offering classic American food and beverages.
- Represented Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, in its successful bid of more than $35.1 million to purchase the avexitide assets of Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. in the sale of Eiger’s assets pursuant to Section 363 of the bankruptcy code.
- Represented Shoes For Crews, a leading producer of non-slip shoes, in a sale to a group of its secured lenders through voluntary chapter 11 proceedings and in obtaining approximately $30 million in DIP financing from the secured lenders acquiring the business.
- Represented Ecovyst Inc. as issuer and CCMP Capital Advisors as selling shareholders in the issuer’s $113.75 million secondary follow-on offering.