Alexander D. McCammon (Alex)

Associate

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Alex McCammon develops and executes creative solutions to clients' difficult legal and business problems arising in distressed and special situations. These solutions are implemented through complex chapter 11 proceedings, out-of-court reorganizations, liability management transactions, and other capital solutions. Alex advises companies, sponsors, creditors, acquirers, and a variety of other parties in these situations. Alex's practice has a significant cross-border component, including advising companies in parallel U.S. and foreign proceedings and in chapter 15 recognition of foreign law restructurings, and spans a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, power, information technology, data infrastructure, entertainment, cryptocurrency, oil and gas, business services, retail, pharmaceuticals, and marine transportation.

Prior to joining Jones Day in 2026, Alex represented auto suppliers, media companies, information technology providers, oceangoing petroleum and gas transportation companies, an oil refinery, power generators, retailers, a generic pharmaceuticals company, and precision manufacturers in many billions of dollars of restructurings and capital solutions. Alex also advised an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in acquiring one of the largest competitive power generation companies in North America through the restructuring of $4.5 billion of funded debt and raising $1.9 billion of new equity. Alex is experienced representing a variety of parties in high-stakes litigation and enforcement matters arising from distressed company situations.

Alex is a member of the UJA-Federation of New York Next Generation Restructuring group and serves on the Chicago Gathering Committee for The Honorable Tina Brozman Foundation ("Tina's Wish").

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The following represents experience acquired prior to joining Jones Day.

Represented Accuride Corporation and its debtor affiliates, a world-class manufacturer and supplier of wheels and wheel end components, in their chapter 11 restructuring, which refocused the business on Accuride's core North American wheels segment and strengthened its balance sheet via the equitization of more than $400 million of funded debt and restructuring of approximately $170 million of additional obligations.

Represented Form Technologies and its affiliates, a global leader in the production of precision-engineering components, in a comprehensive recapitalization transaction. Form significantly deleveraged its balance sheet and received approximately $304 million in new equity capital from Ares Management funds, the D.E. Shaw Group, Onex Credit, and Ripple Industries.

Represented 48forty Solutions and certain of its affiliates, the largest pallet management company in North America, in their out-of-court restructuring, which was supported by 100% of 48forty's lenders.

Represented SIRVA Worldwide and its affiliates, a global leader in corporate relocation and moving services in 77 locations servicing more than 190 countries, in their out-of-court restructuring, which was supported by 100% of SIRVA's lenders.

Represented an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of Talen Energy Supply and its affiliated debtors, which has an 18-facility, 13,000-megawatt generation portfolio. The ad hoc group backstopped the $1.9 billion equity financing that served as the keystone of Talen's restructuring of $4.5 billion of funded debt obligations.

Represented Riverbed Technology and three of its affiliates, a leading provider of IT optimization products and services, in their prepackaged chapter 11 restructuring that eliminated approximately $1.1 billion of Riverbed's funded debt and resulted in Riverbed receiving $100 million in new capital.

Represented one of the largest independently owned oceangoing petroleum barge companies operating within the Jones Act market in its chapter 11 cases and two simultaneous value-maximizing sale transactions for substantially all of their assets that allowed its state-of-the-art fleet to continue operating in the Jones Act market.

Defended Breccia Unlimited Company against adversary proceeding brought by individual chapter 11 debtor. The proceeding was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed in an opinion clarifying the U.S. constitutional limits of jurisdiction in chapter 11 cases. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Co. (In re Sheehan), 48 F. 4th 413 (7th Cir. 2022).

Represented Europcar Mobility Group, a Paris-based global leader in the mobility services industry, in its chapter 15 case as part of a comprehensive restructuring strategy to raise €480 million in new financing, equitize €1,100 million in corporate indebtedness, and refinance Europcar's €670 million revolving credit facility through an accelerated financial safeguard proceeding under French law.

Represented Technicolor, a Paris-based global leader in content creation to distribution for film, music producers, and video game and software developers, in its chapter 15 case as part of a comprehensive restructuring strategy to raise €420 million in new financing and refinance $477.8 million and €977 million of funded debt through an accelerated financial safeguard proceeding under French law.

Represented Gulfport Energy Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, an independent returns-oriented, gas-weighed exploration and development company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States, in their prearranged chapter 11 restructuring of approximately $1.25 billion of funded debt obligations and raising approximately $892.5 million in new capital.

Represented the largest and oldest oil refinery on the East Coast in its chapter 11 cases initiated following a catastrophic explosion at its refining complex that resulted in a permanent shutdown of its refining operations.

Represented Mood Media Corporation and its affiliates, in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases. Mood Media obtained confirmation of its plan of reorganization, which deleveraged its balance sheet by more than $400 million, within 24 hours of commencing chapter 11 and emerged from chapter 11 that same day.

Represented Longview Power and its affiliates in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases. Longview owns and operates a 710 net megawatt supercritical coal-fired generation facility located in Maidsville, West Virginia, which was the most efficient coal-fired plant in the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland Regional Transmission Organization at the time and one of the most environmentally compliant and cleanest coal plants globally.

Represented Bluestem Brands and certain of its affiliates, a direct-to-consumer retailer that provides a wide array of merchandise through multiple channels under the Orchard and Northstar brand portfolios, in their chapter 11 cases and ultimate sale as a going concern.

Represented Akorn and certain subsidiaries, a specialty generic pharmaceuticals company with approximately $861.7 million of funded indebtedness, in their chapter 11 cases, which Akorn was forced to file after a Delaware court found — for the first time ever — that Fresenius Kabi AG validly terminated its merger agreement with Akorn because of a "material adverse effect" on Akorn's business.

Represented Aegean Marine Petroleum Network and certain subsidiaries, a leading international marine fuel logistics company with approximately $900 million of funded indebtedness, in their chapter 11 cases. Aegean operated in more than 20 countries worldwide with headquarters in Athens, Greece and a corporate office in New York, New York.