Heesoo Park

Heesoo’s experience includes representing:

• Hooters of America, LLC, an iconic casual dining and sports entertainment chain, and its affiliated debtors in their chapter 11 cases involving the restructuring of approximately US$380 million of funded debt. Hooters’ chapter 11 cases are the first whole business securitization filings of their kind and are supported by US$40 million of debtor-in-possession financing and a Restructuring Support Agreement with near unanimous support from its key stakeholders*
• Hearthside Foods and its affiliated debtors on prearranged chapter 11 cases involving approximately US$3 billion of funded debt; the company successfully emerged from chapter 11 and rebranded as Maker’s Pride, with approximately US$600 million of liquidity*
• Exactech, Inc., a leading manufacturer and developer of orthopedic implant devices, and its affiliated debtors in a successful asset sale to an entity affiliated with a group of secured lenders through voluntary chapter 11 proceedings, involving the restructuring of more than US$350 million of prepetition debt and liabilities, securing approximately US$160 million in debtor in possession credit financing, and addressing billions in alleged tort liabilities*
• Ad hoc group of second lien lenders of Petmate, a supplier and manufacturer of pet products, in connection with its out-of-court restructuring of approximately US$600 million of funded debt*
• Trinseo Materials Operating SCA, and certain of its affiliates, in connection with a US$1.1 billion innovative financing transaction addressing the company’s 2024 senior secured term loans and US$385 million of its 2025 unsecured bonds. Funds managed and advised by Oaktree, Angelo Gordon, and Apollo provided the financing*
• Juice Plus+ in the negotiation and consummation of an out-of-court restructuring transaction with the unanimous participation of the company’s lenders that reduced the company’s funded debt and preferred equity obligations by over US$300 million and extended the company’s remaining debt maturities to 2027*
• SK Inc.’s US$1.3 billion renewable energy platform with KKR*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham