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Justin Rawlins
Vice Chair and Managing Director of the Restructuring Group
justinrawlins@paulhastings.com
Overview
Justin Rawlins is Vice Chair and Managing Director of the Financial Restructuring group and a member of the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Century City office. Mr. Rawlins has extensive experience and is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in top legal directories. He principally represents asset managers and lenders investing in private businesses with an emphasis on complex financings, special situations and restructurings.
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2025
- Honored with a Client Choice Award, recognizing excellent client service with a focus on the ability to add real value to clients’ businesses above and beyond other players in the market, by Lexology and ILO, 2017 and 2018.
- Ranked in Chambers USA (2014-2023)
- Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S.
- Recognized in Best Lawyers
- Recognized by Super Lawyers
Education
- Loyola Law School. J.D. cum laude, 2000 (National Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu; Order of the Coif)
- University of Southern California, B.A., 1997
Representations
Select Lender Representations
- A leading cyber security company (counsel to agent and lender)
- Resorts World Casino New York City (counsel to agent and lender)
- Avianca (counsel to DIP lender and exit facility lender)
Select Loan Workouts and Restructurings
- Ruby Tuesday (counsel to prepetition lender, DIP lender and exit facility lender)
- A tier 1 automotive supplier (counsel to agent and lender)
- Steak house chain (counsel to agent and lender)
- A multi-state logistics company specializing in the transportation of asphalt, chemicals and dry bulk (counsel to agent and lender)
- U.S. Well Services (counsel to ad hoc group of lenders)
- A chain of beauty salons and med spas (counsel to agent)
- A leading shoes, clothing and apparel line (counsel to agent)
- Proserv (counsel to ancillary facility lenders)
- 360 (counsel to agent for term loan lender)
- Macaroni Grill (counsel to DIP lender and exit facility lender)
- A hospitality distribution systems company (counsel to agent)
- A logistics provider (counsel to agent)
- BreitBurn Energy Partners LP (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- A New York-based jewelry manufacturer and retailer (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- A national restaurant chain (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- A leading provider of hydraulic fracking services (counsel to steering committee of second lien lenders)
- TXCO Resources, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company (counsel to steering committee of second lien lenders and DIP lender)
- Storm Cat USA, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company (counsel to agent of second lien lenders, DIP lenders, and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- Z2, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company (counsel to agent)
- Select Staffing (counsel to steering committee of second lien lenders)
- Advanced Molecular Imaging and Gamma Medica, molecular breast imaging companies (counsel to second lien lender and purchaser of assets under 363 sale)
- Consolidated Freightways Corporation (counsel to agent, multi-lender syndicate)
- Custom Foods Products, Inc. (counsel to lender, DIP lender, and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- MMFX Steel (counsel to unsecured “deficiency claim” creditor and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- Phillips Cattle Company, Inc. (counsel to agent)
- Douglas Furniture (counsel to agent)
- A leading baby safety/car seat company (counsel to agent)
- A hospice provider (counsel to agent)
- Scotia Development LLC (counsel to prepetition lender, DIP lender, and successful chapter 11 plan proponent)
- Westcliff Medical Laboratories, Inc. (counsel to agent)
- Ghana Airways (counsel to aircraft lessor)
Select Company/Trustee Representations (In and Out-of-Court)
- Relativity Media (counsel to company)
- United Road Towing (counsel to company)
- Condor Systems, Inc. and CEI Systems, Inc., defense contractors (counsel to company)
- SK Foods, an agribusiness and tomato processor (counsel to company and chapter 11 trustee)
- A California-based insurance company (counsel to company)
- A leading designer and manufacturer of products for optical communications networks and other optics solutions (counsel to company)
- A Los Angeles-based clothing manufacturer and retailer in workout of loan by US Bank (counsel to company)
- A natural gas production company (counsel to sponsor)
- Destination Films, an independent film company (counsel to chapter 7 trustee)
- American Pacific Financial Corporation, an asset management firm (counsel to chapter 7 trustee)
- A significant paint retailer (counsel to company)
- A global specialty steel company (counsel to company and sponsor)
- A Washington-based wine bottle manufacturer (counsel to company and sponsor)
- A clothing manufacturer and retailer (counsel to company and sponsor)
Select 363 Sale/Buyer Representations
- Auto Masters, LLC (represented acquirer of substantially all auto loans)
- Los Angeles Dodgers (represented acquirer of substantially all assets)
- Los Angeles Sparks (represented acquirer of substantially all assets)
- Kreiss, Inc., a furniture designer and retailer (represented acquirer of substantially all assets )
- Jumio, Inc., an identity management and credentials company (represented acquirer of substantially all assets)
- RealD, Inc., a visual technology company (represented investor in connection with take private)
- Haggen, Inc. (counsel to bidder on substantially all core assets)
- Qimonda, a leading global memory supplier (counsel to bidder)
- Rhythm and Hues, a post-production company (counsel to bidder)
Creditors' Committee Representations
- Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
- Cable & Wireless USA, Inc.
- Citation Corporation
- Meridian Automotive, Inc.
- Merisant
news
- Paul Hastings Advises Tree Line Capital Partners In Sale of 40% Stake to Aflac Global Investments - June 3rd, 2024
- U.S. Well Services To Be Acquired by ProFrac Holding Corp. - June 22nd, 2022
- Paul Hastings Ranked as Top Three Firm for New Rankings and Recognized for Numerous Practice Strength and Growth in Chambers USA 2021 - May 21st, 2021
- Paul Hastings Continues Lateral Growth Hot Streak, Adding Restructuring Partner James Grogan in Houston - April 16th, 2020
- Paul Hastings’ Finance and Restructuring Rise Progresses with Bi-Coastal Partner Team - February 20th, 2020
Recognitions
Engagement & Publications
- Panelist, “Chapter 11 Plan Strategy: Do It Right the First Time,” American Bankruptcy Institute Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference, Denver, CO, January 2020
- Panelist, “New Developments in Rights Offerings and Backstop Purchaser Incentives,” American Bankruptcy Institute, November 2018
- Panelist, “Hot Topics in Chapter 11,” American Bankruptcy Institute Southwest Conference, Las Vegas, NV, September 2015
- Co-author, California Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors Desk Guide, The Insolvency Law Standing Committee of the Business Law Section, 2014