Jason L. Hufendick

JASON HUFENDICK’s practice involves representing debtors, creditors, and investors in large and complex domestic and cross-border restructurings, distressed financings, and distressed M&A transactions.

His experience includes advising clients in both out-of-court processes and in-court restructurings across a broad range of industries, including retail, energy, manufacturing, technology, media and telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services.

Jason’s work has earned him membership in Class XIV of the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Leadership Program for 2025. The International Insolvency Institute is a global network of leading professionals, scholars, and judges with extensive experience in international insolvency law.

Jason has played a significant role on a number of teams advising:

Debtor/Company-Side Experience:

• Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors, Inc., the largest independent food distributor in the United States, in its Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.
• CareMax, Inc., a U.S.–based healthcare company that operated 50 clinical centers and employed approximately 1,100 employees that served 260,000 patients annually, in connection with their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring that addressed over US$500 million in funded term loans.
• Mavenir, a Siris Capital portfolio company, in its comprehensive recapitalization with its lenders. Mavenir is a global telecommunications technology company that provides innovative network infrastructure solutions. Over US$1.3 billion of indebtedness was eliminated through the transaction and US$300 million of new senior financing was secured.
• U.S. TelePacific Holdings Corp. (TPx), a privately held national provider of managed communication services, in designing and implementing a bespoke transaction to provide an opportunity to raise new capital and fund the business for the long term.
• Reverse Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. (RMIT) in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. RMIT was a leading fully integrated financing company that focused on the reverse mortgage industry, with a servicing portfolio of approximately US$25.57 billion as of October 31, 2022. With over US$1.4 billion in funded debt obligations, RMIT’s Chapter 11 cases were among the largest filed in 2022. Two months later, the company’s fully consensual Chapter 11 plan was confirmed, and RMIT emerged from Chapter 11 one day later.
• Atento, one of the world’s largest providers of customer relationship management and business process outsourcing services in Latin America that implemented a comprehensive restructuring plan addressing US$760 million in debt pursuant to Part 26A of the UK Companies Act.
• iFIT Health & Fitness Inc., a global leader in connected fitness and interactive content with an extensive portfolio of iFIT and Sweat streaming platforms and iconic equipment brands such as NordicTrack, in connection with a US$355 million capital raise and restructuring of hundreds of millions of other company obligations.
• Healogics, Inc. (Healogics), a leading wound-care center operations provider, on a comprehensive restructuring of over US$860 million in funded debt through an out-of-court debt-for-equity exchange, resulting in a US$450 million deleveraging that obtained 100% participation from its lenders and provided Healogics with US$240 million in new equity financing. As part of the transaction, Healogics also secured a new US$30million revolving credit facility, in addition to a new US$370 million first lien term loan.
• Arcade Beauty, a leading global beauty company in connection with its out-of-court recapitalization that provided the company with a new capital infusion.
• UTEX Industries, Inc. (UTEX), the market-leading sealing component design and manufacturing firm, and its debtor-affiliates in their prepackaged restructuring addressing more than US$700 million of funded debt. UTEX’s restructuring involved, among other things, a first-in-kind resolution of highly complex tax arrangements between UTEX and certain non-debtor affiliates pursuant to a fast-tracked prepackaged Chapter 11 plan that was successfully confirmed by the bankruptcy court.
• Fieldwood Energy, a Gulf of Mexico offshore energy exploration and production company, in connection with their 2018 Chapter 11 cases and again in their 2020 Chapter 11 cases.
• Exide Holdings, Inc., a global lead-acid batteries manufacturing company, and its affiliated debtors in their Chapter 11 cases.
• Halcón Resources Corporation, an independent oil and gas E&P operator, and its affiliates in their 2019 prepackaged Chapter 11 cases.
• Kingfisher Midstream, LLC, 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, and its subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 cases.
• Doncasters Group, a leading international manufacturer of high-precision components for aero engines, industrial gas turbines, and other specialist high-performance applications, in its restructuring of US$1.6 billion of funded debt through an English scheme of arrangement and an ancillary Chapter 15 proceeding (Dundee Pikco Limited) in the United States.
• LBI Media Inc., one of the nation’s largest Spanish-speaking media companies with national and regional broadcasting capability across the United States in television and radio media, in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases.
• Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the formerly fourth-largest investment bank in the world, in a number of post-effective matters, including clawback litigation with its former U.K. subsidiaries.

Creditor/Other Party Experience:

• An ad hoc group of first lien lenders holding over US$2 billion of first lien obligations issued by Ligado Networks LLC (Ligado), a mobile communications company that operates a satellite network across North America, in connection with Ligado’s prearranged Chapter 11 cases.
• The Ligado DIP loan with a total principal amount of approximately US$1 billion is the largest DIP financing so far in 2025.
• An ad hoc group of holders of senior notes due 2025 of Finance of America Companies Inc. (FOA), in connection with a comprehensive support agreement, exchange offer, and consent solicitation by FOA.
• Cantor Fitzgerald in the restructuring of approximately US$360 million of indebtedness of View, Inc. in Chapter 11.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (Stonepeak) in connection with the restructuring of a US$350 million unsecured note issued by Akumin, Inc. (Akumin), a national leader in comprehensive outpatient radiology and oncology solutions for hospitals and health systems, pursuant to which Stonepeak’s unsecured note was equitized into 100% of Akumin’s common equity in connection with a Chapter 11 process in the Southern District of Texas.
• 100% of noteholders to Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited (Rockley) in connection with Rockley’s prepackaged plan of reorganization in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court and concurrent Cayman Islands restructuring officer regime proceeding.
• The Special Master for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in connection with enforcing judgments for billions, designing a plan for the court supervised sale of the shares of PDV Holding, Inc., the parent company of CITGO Holding, Inc. (CITGO). CITGO is one of the largest refiners, transporter, and marketers of motor fuels, petrochemicals, and other industrial products in the United States.
• Omega Healthcare Investors Inc., one of the largest real estate investment trusts focused on the long-term healthcare industry, in its capacity as landlord and DIP financing lender in connection with the bankruptcy proceeding of its longtime skilled nursing tenant Gulf Coast Healthcare, LLC.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.