Iheartmedia Taps Kirkland, Jackson Walker As Debtor's Counsel

SERVING BUSINESS LAWYERS IN TEXAS iHeartMedia Taps Kirkland, Jackson Walker as Debtor’s Counsel

By Mark Curriden – (March 16, 2018) – Tomasco, a South Texas iHeartMedia General Counsel Robert Walls College of Law alumni, has chose Kirkland & Ellis and Jackson Walker to represented several high- guide the San Antonio-based radio giant through profile Texas companies corporate restructuring. in bankruptcy, including Linn Energy, Midstates iHeartMedia filed Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Petroleum and El Paso Court in Houston for protection under Children’s Hospital. Chapter 11. Patricia B. Tomasco Jackson Walker partner Filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Matthew D. Cavenaugh, Commission show that iHeart Associate who offices in Houston, and associate Jennifer F. General Counsel and Assistant Secretary Lauren Wertz, who practices in Austin, are also advising E. Dean is also playing a significant role in iHeart. Cavenaugh clerked for U.S. Bankruptcy the reorganization. Judge Marvin Isgur, who has been assigned to iHeart disclosed last year that it had hired handle the iHeart case. Chicago-based Kirkland and Dallas-based A handful of other law firms, including Jones Jackson Walker to be its lead legal advisors in Day, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Arnold & Porter the restructuring. and Weil, Gotshal & Manges are representing an None of the Houston-based lawyers for Kirkland array of creditors and interested parties. are actively participating in the bankruptcy Please visit www.texaslawbook.net for more articles proceedings. The Kirkland team is largely out of on business law in Texas. the firm’s Chicago and New York offices.

For Jackson Walker, Houston partner Patricia B. Tomasco is leading the team.