Jason L. Hufendick

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

Debtor/Company-Side Experience:

• 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 $355 million capital raise and restructuring of hundreds of millions of other company obligations.
• Healogics, Inc., the nation’s leading wound-care center operations provider, on a comprehensive restructuring of over $860 million in funded debt through an out-of-court debt-for-equity exchange, resulting in a $450m deleveraging that obtained 100% participation from its lenders and provided Healogics with $240 million in new equity financing. As part of the transaction, the Company also secured a new $30M revolving credit facility, in addition to a new $370 million first lien term loan.
• A global manufacturer and distributer of beauty and personal care products in its out-of-court restructuring efforts.
• UTEX Industries, Inc., the market-leading sealing component design and manufacturing firm, and its debtor-affiliates in their prepackaged restructuring addressing more than $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 its second chapter 11 case.
• Exide Holdings, Inc., and its affiliated debtors, a global lead-acid batteries manufacturing company, in their chapter 11 cases.
• Halcón Resources Corporation and its affiliates, an independent oil and gas E&P operator, in their 2019 prepackaged chapter 11 cases.
• Kingfisher Midstream, LLC, and its subsidiaries, 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, 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 $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.
• Fieldwood Energy, a Gulf of Mexico offshore energy exploration and production company, in connection with its chapter 11 cases, through which Fieldwood purchased Gulf of Mexico assets of Noble Energy.
• 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.

Creditor/Other Party Experience:

• 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.
• Lenders to a global agricultural product developer in such company’s out-of-court recapitalization.

*The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.