Sunny Singh

Sunny Singh is a Partner in the Firm’s Restructuring Practice and leads the Firm’s U.S. company-side restructuring team. He has deep experience leading all aspects of highly complex domestic and international restructuring matters. He advises debtors, boards of directors, sponsors, investors and other interested parties on some of the world’s most significant chapter 11 cases, pre-packaged bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings. 

Lauded by clients in Chambers USA for his ability to tackle “the most complicated situations with calm and steady advice,” Sunny routinely advises on matters spanning a wide range of industries, such as energy, technology, retail, infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate and financial services. Sunny has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by several organizations and publications, including The American Bankruptcy Institute, Chambers USA, Law360, International Financial Law Review and others.

Sunny's experience includes the representation of:

• CWT Travel Holdings, Inc., a global business travel and meetings solutions provider with operations all over the world, in connection with its out-of-court recapitalization and restructuring transactions that resulted in equitizing $625 million of CWT’s senior notes and obtaining $150 million incremental liquidity to support the Company’s operations.
• Anagram Holdings, LLC, a leading manufacturer of foil balloons and inflated décor, in connection with its chapter 11 cases and the sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets.
• Carrier Corporation in connection with the chapter 11 case of its subsidiary, Kidde-Fenwal Inc.
• FR BR Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of First Reserve and a 50% JV Partner in Blue Racer Midstream, in connection with a comprehensive recapitalization transaction that strengthened and deleveraged FR BR’s balance sheet.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes representing:  

• Ruby Pipeline, LLC, a developer and operator of an interstate natural gas pipeline, in connection with its chapter 11 cases.
• Basic Energy Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest oilfield services companies, in connection with its chapter 11 cases and sale of substantially all of its assets.
• Exide Holdings, Inc. and its affiliated debtors in their chapter 11 cases involving two going concern sale and separation transactions for its U.S. and European / Rest of World businesses and a first of its kind global settlement to resolve hundreds of millions of dollars of historical environmental liabilities.
• Fairway Group Holdings Corporation and its affiliated debtors in their chapter 11 cases.
• Fusion Connect, Inc., and its domestic subsidiaries, in their chapter 11 cases with liabilities in excess of $650 million.
• Sears Holdings Corporation and its affiliated debtors in one of the largest retail chapter 11 cases in history involving $6 billion of debt.
• Ditech Holding Corporation and its affiliated debtors, one of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, in their pre-arranged chapter 11 cases involving more than $2 billion in debt.
• Tops Supermarkets in its successful chapter 11 restructuring.
• Southeastern Grocers LLC in its prepackaged chapter 11 reorganization involving more than $1 billion in debt.
• Walter Investment Management, Inc. in its restructuring efforts related to more than $2 billion in funded debt obligations.
• J.Crew Group, Inc. in its groundbreaking out-of-court exchange, which won the Financial Times North America Innovative Lawyers Report 2017 award for “Accessing New Markets and Capital.”
• The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) and its subsidiaries, in their chapter 11 cases commenced in 2015.
• American Airlines, Inc. and its US affiliates in their chapter 11 restructuring and merger with US Airways.
• Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its affiliates in their historic bankruptcy cases.
• The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with the chapter 11 cases of CineworldGroup PLC with approximately $5.35 billion in total funded debt obligations.
• HPS Investment Partners, acting as existing term lender to Envision Healthcare Corporation, and new first- and second-lien lender to Amsurg, the ambulatory surgery division of Envision, in connection with Envision’s out-of-court recapitalization transactions.
• Ad hoc group of RigCo Lenders of Seadrill Limited, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors that owns or leases more than 7% of the world’s fleet and has operations in 15 countries, in Seadrill Limited’s chapter 11 cases.
• General Electric Company and its affiliates, as sponsor, in the prepackaged chapter 11 case of Homer City Generation L.P.

Sunny received his J.D., summa cum laude, from Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law in 2006. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from University at Albany, SUNY in 2003. Previously, he clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Drain at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. He is admitted to practice in New York, the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of New York.