Mendy Fox

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Fox’s practice is primarily focused on advising debtors, creditors, equity holders and potential investors on tax matters related to all aspects of in-court and out-of-court restructurings, special situations and financing transactions (including, liability management transactions).

Additionally, Mr. Fox has experience handling tax issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions, fund formations, sovereign wealth fund investments, fund secondary transactions and REITs.

Mr. Fox’s recent transactions include:

Select company representations

• Oregon Tool in connection with a $150 million new money financing and a $1.3 billion recapitalization of its credit facilities and senior notes.
• Aventiv Technologies in multiple new money and uptier refinancing transactions involving more than $1.6 billion of first and second lien liabilities.
• Petmate in an out-of-court restructuring of over $800 million of liabilities.
• Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings.
• 99 Cents Only Stores LLC in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings.

Select creditor representations

• Elliott Investment Management as the anchor lender to Magenta Buyer in drop-down liability management transactions that raised $400 million of new money and refinanced over $4 billion of 1L and 2L liabilities.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to Tosca Services in connection with a $100 million super-priority new money and $600 million uptier refinancing transaction.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to SI Group in connection with a $1.8 billion uptier recapitalization transaction.
• An ad hoc group of noteholders to a REIT in connection with a notes exchange.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to Hornblower Group in connection with the company’s chapter 11 proceedings.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to Careismatic Brands LLC in connection with the company’s chapter 11 proceedings.
• An ad hoc group of term lenders to an analytics and networks solutions company in connection with the company’s chapter 11 proceedings.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Fox earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School and served as a member of the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. Mr. Fox also received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law and his B.A. from Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary.