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Morrison Foerster to Represent the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Fisker

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Morrison Foerster was selected to represent the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Fisker and its affiliated debtors....

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Morrison Foerster was selected to represent the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Fisker and its affiliated debtors. Fisker is a U.S.-based electric vehicle company that developed eco-friendly cars. Fisker and its affiliated debtors, filed voluntary bankruptcy petitions commencing chapter 11 proceedings in Delaware.The team leading this matter includes New York restructuring partners Lorenzo Marinuzzi, Doug Mannal, Oksana Lashko, and Benjamin Butterfield, and litigation partner Alex Lawrence.

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Lorenzo is global co-chair of the firm wide Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group. Lorenzo represents debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, and litigation. His cases have spanned the United States as well as countless industries, such as airline and cargo transportation, mortgage origination and servicing, retail, banking and finance, energy, oil and gas, and telecommunications.Lorenzo has represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in numerous recent chapter 11 cases, including Peer Street, Incora/Wesco, Clovis Oncology, Valaris, Windstream Holdings, Inc., Cloud Peak Energy, Westmoreland Coal Company, Inc., The NORDAM Group, Inc., Avaya Inc., Armstrong Energy, Inc., 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., Peabody Energy, Inc., Energy Future Holdings, Corp., and UCI International, Inc.Lorenzo’s deep experience and capabilities advising on precedent-setting bankruptcy and restructuring matters have not gone unnoticed. He is listed as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA and has also been recommended by The Legal 500 US. He was also designated by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine as an Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer for his accomplishments in 2016 and 2017.

Lorenzo Marinuzzi

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Doug is a partner in the Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group, based in the New York office.Doug’s practice focuses on representing clients in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, and other distressed situations. His clients include official creditors’ committees, ad hoc creditor groups, and individual asset managers, as well as corporate borrowers.On behalf of creditors, Doug implements strategies focused on maximizing creditor recoveries and he has significant experience proposing and confirming plans of reorganization; investigating and prosecuting various estate causes of action; negotiating intercreditor disputes; crafting cash collateral orders, debtor-in-possession/exit financing packages, and creditor-sponsored equity rights offerings; challenging confirmation of nonconsensual chapter 11 plans; terminating exclusivity; participating in 363 sales; and implementing and defending against coercive liability management transactions. On the company side, Doug counsels borrowers navigating the complex legal, financial, and operational issues that arise in distressed situations, implementing both in- and out-of-court restructurings aimed at preserving value.Doug has been recognized for over a decade in Chambers USA, where he is acclaimed as a “force of nature” and an “adept architect of the restructuring process.”  Turnarounds & Workouts recognized him as an Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer in 2020 and 2017 and he is recognized as a Leading Global Restructuring Lawyer by Lawdragon 500.Doug has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a B.A. in government and law from Lafayette College.

Doug Mannal

Oksana Lashko is a partner in the Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group based in the New York office.Oksana represents debtors/borrowers, secured and unsecured creditors, official and ad hoc committees, and other significant parties‑in-interest in Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvency matters, and various bankruptcy-related transactions and investments, including section 363 sales, financings, liability management transactions, as well as complex litigation matters. Over the course of her career, Oksana has built a successful creditors’ committee practice. Her experience spans diverse industries, including media, real estate, energy, consumer and retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, sports, and financial services, showcasing her expertise in handling high stakes, contentious, and complex restructurings. She also advises clients on navigating complex debt capitalization structures, intercreditor arrangements, and syndicated leveraged transactions.Oksana has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights and Insolvency (2023-2025) and by The Legal 500 US in the area of Corporate Restructuring (2021).Prior to joining the firm, Oksana was a partner at another international law firm, contributing to her background in corporate restructuring and bankruptcy.Oksana holds a J.D., summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Law Review and a B.A. from Colgate University.

Oksana Lashko

Ben Butterfield is a partner in the Business Restructuring + Insolvency Group in the New York office of Morrison Foerster.Ben has represented debtors, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, official creditors’ committees, and directors and officers in complex restructuring transactions, including both out-of-court financial restructurings and chapter 11 proceedings. Ben has also represented clients in connection with international insolvency-related matters, including litigation-oriented matters as well as transactional work. He is also a member of our global ESG + Sustainability steering committee.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Ben was an associate in the New York office of another large law firm. He earned his J.D. from the New York University School of Law.Ben is admitted to practice in New York.

Benjamin Butterfield

Alex advises on all aspects of complex commercial litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts and in arbitration. He has represented U.S. and international clients in actions involving a wide array of complex commercial disputes.Alex regularly advises clients on e–discovery issues and best practices as co–chair of our E–Discovery Task Force. He also serves as co–chair of our Commercial Litigation Group’s Technology Transactions Working Group and has been a member of the Standing Committee on the Judiciary of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Alex was named in the National Law Journal’s 2015 and 2017 Pro Bono Hot List for his work protecting reproductive rights, and appeared again in 2018 for his work protecting individuals who were jailed for their inability to pay court fees and fines. In 2023, Alex was recognized with the American Lawyer Corporate Purpose award and at the Financial Times Lawyers Awards for the firm’s Post-Dobbs reproductive rights work. Alex was further named among Law360's Legal Lions of the Week on multiple occasions for his work.He also has won the JD Supra Readers’ Choice Award for 2016 as the top author in the area of e–discovery. He has written extensively on legal issues in publications such as Law360, Intellectual Property Strategist, IP Litigator, Licensing Journal, Bloomberg BNA, ACC Docket, San Francisco Daily Journal, Financier Worldwide, Mealey’s Litigation Report, and Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update. He also has been featured or quoted in articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Austin American–Statesman, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Forbes, Huffington Post, Law360, Elle, American Lawyer, and National Law Journal.

J. Alexander Lawrence

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Business Restructuring + Insolvency