Kurt Ernest Ramlo

Practice Details

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  Payment & Cost Features

  Fixed hourly rates
  

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• Firm Information
  Position

  Senior Counsel

  Firm Name

  Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Golubchik, L.L.P.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  advised: the chapter 11 debtors in Delphi Corporation
  Refco
  Blue Bird Body Company
  Friedman's Jewelers
  Kmart Corporation
  ZiLOG, Inc.
  Stone & Webster
  Wilshire Center Marketplace (Ambassador Hotel)
  Washington Group
  
  Furr'sSupermarkets
  the foreign representatives in Flightlease Holdings
  SunCal
  the receiver in Private Equity Management Group
  the equity stockholders or plan sponsors in Charter Communications
  Crescent Jewelers
  Oregon Arena Corporation
  Old UGC
  
  Clift Holdings (The Clift Hotel)
  certain estate professionals in General Growth Properties
  Leap Wireless
  creditors in Contessa Premium Foods
  Phoenix Coyotes
  American Home Mortgage
  Trump Casinos
  Consolidated Freightways
  Loral Space & Communications
  Leap Wireless
  DirecTV Latin American
  Northwestern Corporation
  Airwalk
  Centis
  Regal Cinemas
  eToys
  Excite/At Home Corporation
  Paracelsus Healthcare
  
  the creditors' committee in Hamakua Sugar Company.

  Litigation matters include Lyondell Chemical (New York LBO fraudulent transfer action)
  Linens N Things (preference)
  One Pelican Hill North (California lender liability)
  satellite dish provider (piracy
  dischargeability)
  Spansion, Inc. (transfer pricing dispute)
  Delphi (Michigan state tax litigation
  vendor litigation)
  Refco (Swiss securities litigation)
  Old UGC ($3.7 billion breach of merger action)
  Airwalk (debt recharacterization trial)
  
  various action representing the United States (Medicare fraud
  dischargeability
  surety bond enforcement
  loan
  guaranty enforcement
  wrongful foreclosure litigation
  enforcement of criminal fines
  restitution orders). Published decisions include United States Pac. Ins. Co. v. United States Dep't of Interior, 70 F. Supp. 2d 1089 (C.D. Cal. 1999)
  Secretary of HUD v. Sky Meadow Assoc., 117 F. Supp. 2d 970 (C.D. Cal. 2000)
  Yunis v. United States, 118 F. Supp. 2d 1024 (C.D. Cal. 2000)
  
  United States Dep't of Educ. v. Wallace (In re Wallace), 259 B.R. 170 (C.D. Cal. 2000).

  Transactions

  Advised: purchaser of shoe designer Airwalk from receiver; purchaser of medical accounts receivable factor from federal receiver for Medical Capital Holdings; chapter 11 debtor Ace Gallery in exercise of purchase option and immediate sale of art gallery; chapter 11 debtor Refco in sale of controlling equity interest Swiss foreign exchange currency brokerage; advised chapter 11 debtor Nexprise in sale of substantially all assets to competitor; school bus manufacturer Blue Bird Body Company in 32-hour prepackaged plan of reorganization; controlling shareholder in pre-negotiated plan of reorganization of Charter Communications; chip manufacturer ZiLog, Inc. in prepackaged plan of reorganization.