Justin Imperato practices in all areas of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency-related matters and currently focuses on the representation of secured and unsecured creditors in out of court loan workouts, restructurings, liquidations, and litigations.
Experience
- Loan Core Capital, as secured lender in connection with various real-estate Chapter 11 cases, including the Chapter 11 cases of In re 203 W. 107 Street LLC in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Walton Improvement Group LLC, as secured lender in connection with the real estate Chapter 11 case of In re 975 Walton Bronx LLC in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.
- Ad Hoc Group of First Lien Lenders under a senior secured term and revolving credit facility with more than $1 billion in outstanding debt in the Chapter 11 cases of The Hertz Corporation and 29 of its subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Alter Domus (US) LLC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent in the Chapter 11 cases of Seadrill Partners LLC in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas for the debtors' restructuring of a multibillion dollar pre-petition credit facility.
- Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB, as Trustee and Collateral Trustee in the Chapter 11 cases of SAExploration Holdings Inc. in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas for the debtors' restructuring of $60 million in notes issued pre-petition pursuant to a senior secured convertible notes indenture.
- GLAS USA LLC and GLAS AMERICAS LLC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent in the Chapter 11 cases of JC Penney Company Inc. in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas for a $900 million senior secured debtor-in-possession term loan facility and as Administrative Agent for a $1.5 billion prepetition first lien term loan facility.
Perspectives
November/December 2021
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Partially Resuscitates Tribune Leveraged Buyout Litigation (pdf)
Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, Vol. 17, No. 8
September 23, 2021
The Second Circuit Again Addresses Issues in Connection With the Leveraged Buyout That Sparked the Tribune Chapter 11 Cases
Advisory
April 9, 2021
'Golden Shares' in US Bankruptcy Cases: Can the Right to Block a Bankruptcy Filing Be Enforced? (pdf)
International Corporate Rescue, Vol. 18, Issue 2
Credentials
Education
- LLM, New York University School of Law
- JD, University of Richmond School of Law, cum laude, The Order of Barristers; editor, University of Richmond Law Review
- BA, University of Richmond
Admissions
- New York
- Virginia
- US District Court, Southern District of New York
- US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York
- US Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York
- Supreme Court of Virginia
Clerkships
- United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York, The Honorable Robert D. Drain
- United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York, The Honorable Robert E. Grossman
- United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York, The Honorable Mary Kay Vyskocil
Activities
- Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, Federal Bar Council