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Alexys Ogorek is an associate in the business restructuring group in the Chicago office. While in law school, Alexys served as a co-president for the Business Law Society and as a Hardt Cup coordinator and Dean’s Cup coordinator for Moot Court. She was also a member of OutLaw.
Experience
- Representing Hooters of America, LLC, an iconic casual dining and sports entertainment chain, and its affiliated debtors in their pending chapter 11 cases involving the restructuring of approximately $380 million of funded debt. Hooters’ chapter 11 cases are the first whole business securitization filings of their kind and are supported by $40 million of debtor-in-possession financing and a Restructuring Support Agreement with near unanimous support from its key stakeholders.
- Representing Vobev LLC, a leading beverage manufacturer with a state-of-the-art canning, filling and warehousing facility, in its pending chapter 11 case to restructure over $400 million of prepetition first lien funded debt, as well as over $70 million of additional unsecured liabilities. Vobev filed its chapter 11 case with the support of its prepetition lenders through the funding of an approximately $115 million debtor-in-possession financing facility consisting of approximately $37 million of new money and approximately $78 million of “rolled-up” prepetition debt. The prepetition lenders serving as the DIP lenders also entered into a stalking horse purchase agreement with Vobev for a $150 million credit bid, subject to higher or otherwise better offers.
- Represented Aimbridge Hospitality in connection with a comprehensive out-of-court restructuring supported by 100% of the company’s lenders that successfully converted more than $1 billion of senior and junior debt into equity and infused the company with $100 million in new capital. Aimbridge is the leading third-party hotel management company, managing over 1,000 hotels globally and employing approximately 47,000 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 flooring company Empire Today in a liability management and financing transaction that received the support of more than 99% of the company’s lenders and enabled the company to obtain significant incremental liquidity and extend its existing debt maturities.
- 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 Hearthside Foods and its affiliated debtors in their prearranged chapter 11 cases involving approximately $3.0 billion of funded debt. A leading contract manufacturer and producer of convenience foods, including baked, refrigerated, and frozen foods, sweet and salty snacks and nutrition bars, Hearthside serves as a full-service provider of food packaging services for many of the world’s premier brands and is the largest private bakery in the industry with a production network of 27 facilities powered by a skilled and dedicated workforce of approximately 12,000 employees. Hearthside’s prearranged chapter 11 plan eliminated approximately $2 billion of funded debt and provided $200 million of new money through an Equity Rights Offering and approximately $190 million of additional capital from a new asset backed loan facility. Hearthside emerged from chapter 11 with approximately $600 million of liquidity and rebranded as Maker’s Pride.
- Representing ReStore Capital, LLC as administrative and collateral agent to Express, LLC, a multi-brand fashion retailer with more than 550 retail stores, in connection with (i) a prepetition second lien asset-based term loan facility and (ii) a debtor in possession financing facility provided by funds and accounts managed by ReStore Capital, Gordon Brothers and First Eagle in the chapter 11 cases of Express, LLC and certain of its affiliates.