Robert D. Albergotti

Robert Albergotti has extensive experience in all aspects of bankruptcy, insolvency and creditor's rights matters. His experience includes:

Represented Centennial Beverage Group in its Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Texas.
Represented Bank of America as Administrative Agent and Lender in WCI Communications and Crown Village Farm Chapter 11 cases.
Represented Administrative Agent in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of the bank debt of a publicly traded homebuilder headquartered in California, including revolving debt and two tranches of term debt.
Represented Rise Energy as successor to Goldman Sachs in connection with $300 million in debt secured by offshore California oil production platforms.
Represented The Bombay Companies in their Chapter 11 proceedings. Bombay is a 400-unit chain selling retail home furnishings.
Represented Creditors' Committee in National Benevolent Association, a not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates senior living facilities and facilities for developmentally disabled adults and juveniles. NBA is one of the largest not-for-profit corporations ever to seek Chapter 11 relief.
Represented Schlotzsky's, an Austin, Texas based owner and franchise of more than 500 restaurants operating in the casual dining sector, in its Chapter 11 reorganization case.
Represented EOTT Energy Partners, LP in its prenegotiated Chapter 11 proceedings; EOTT is a $10 billion annual sales operator of crude oil pipelines serving 18 states.
Represented Bank of America as administrative agent for a $2.65 billion credit facility in the WorldCom bankruptcy.
Served as principal legal adviser to the California State Assembly in connection with efforts to resolve the California "electricity crisis."
Represented American Healthcare Management, an acute-care hospital holding company, and its 36 hospital subsidiaries in their reorganization proceedings. At the time, these were the largest healthcare companies ever to file for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code.
Represented Kitty Hawk, Inc. as debtor in possession in its Chapter 11 Proceedings. Kitty Hawk is a non-integrated FAA Certificated airline serving all major U.S. markets with air freight services that emerged from Chapter 11 proceedings in late 2002.
Represented the Unsecured Creditors' Committee of El Paso Electric Company in its Chapter 11 reorganization case and acted as lead counsel in drafting plan of reorganization for El Paso's emergence from bankruptcy through underwritten public offering of $1.2 billion of new secured mortgage notes.
Represented private equity and hedge funds in asset acquisitions from numerous Chapter 11 debtors, most recently completing acquisition of natural gas assets in the Enron case.
Represented Louisiana based gaming licensee in prenegotiated Chapter 11 sale of its casino property.
Counsel to SpectraVision as debtor in its Chapter 11. Worked closely with financial advisor in a controlled blind auction of the company that yielded a merger with its largest competitor. SpectraVision creditors received 30% of the combined companies having an equity value of $650 million.
Represented three different debtors in possession (two energy companies and one gaming company) in fast track pre-negotiated Chapter 11 cases in which the primary creditors were committed to support Chapter 11 restructuring before the cases were filed. Each case was successfully concluded in less than four months.

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Areas of Practice 1) Bankruptcy and Business Restructuring, 2) Restructuring, 3) Workouts, 4) and Recapitalizations, 5) Crisis Management, 6) Financial Crisis Advisory and Litigation, 7) Private Clients and Estate Planning, 8) Investment Funds and Private Equity and 9) Regulatory Compliance
Law School Tulane University Law School ( J.D., 1976)
Admitted Year 1976
Education University of South Carolina (B.A.,1969)
Bar Member / Association Texas State Bar Associations, North Carolina State Bar Associations
Most recent firm Haynes and Boone, LLP
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