James Nygard advises private investment firms, corporations and financial institutions on a broad range of corporate matters, including corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and securities law compliance. Mr. Nygard regularly represents private investment firms, bondholder committees and official creditors’ committees in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings and has extensive experience in rights offerings.

Mr. Nygard’s recent transactions include representing:

Investors in their backstop of a $300 million term loan rights offering in the recapitalization of Tembec Inc.;

Investors in their backstop of a $250 million rights offering in the reorganization of Solutia Inc.;

Investors in their backstop of a $71 million rights offering in the reorganization of Global Power Equipment Group Inc.;

Investors in their backstop of a $637.5 million rights offering in the reorganization of Northwest Airlines Corporation;

An investor in connection with its backstop of a $180 million rights offering by Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.;

Investors in connection with their backstop of a $2 billion rights offering in the reorganization of Owens Corning;

etalk Corporation in a sale of its business to Autonomy Corporation;

Official and ad hoc committees in the following bankruptcy reorganizations: International Wire Group, Inc., Texas Petrochemicals LP, Advanced Glassfiber Yarns, Inc., General Chemical Group, Inc. and Bayou Steel Corporation; and

Noteholders in an out-of-court restructuring of Personnel Group of America.

Admitted to Practice

New Jersey, 1998

New York, 1999

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1998

B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1994