Renee L. Freimuth

Associate

New York, (212) 336-4229

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Education

The George Washington University (B.A., 1998)
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St. John's University School of Law (J.D., 2004)

Practices

Business Restructuring + Insolvency

Bar Admissions

Connecticut
New York

Renee L. Freimuth is an associate in the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group of Morrison & Foerster's New York office. Ms. Freimuth's practice focuses on the representation of chapter 11 debtors, official committees, ad hoc committees and other parties in interest in chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations, as well as in out of court matters. Ms. Freimuth has also advised foreign representatives in chapter 15 recognition proceedings.

While attending St. John's University School of Law, Ms. Freimuth was the associate managing editor of The American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review.

Residential Capital, LLC

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Residential Capital, one of the largest residential real estate finance companies with assets and liabilities each in excess of $15 billion, whose business is comprised primarily of loan servicing and origination, and its subsidiary companies, in their pending chapter 11 cases. Residential Capital was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2012 and the case represents the first time ever that a mortgage servicer was able to successfully continue servicing and originating mortgages in bankruptcy and be sold as a going concern.

In re Ambac Financial Group, Inc.

Representing the official committee of unsecured creditors of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. in one of the largest Chapter 11 cases filed in 2010 currently pending in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (Chapter 11 Case No.10-15973).

In re Caribbean Petroleum Corp., et al.

Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors of Caribbean Petroleum Corp., one of the primary importers and distributors of petroleum products in Puerto Rico, filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Chapter 11 Case No. 10-12553). (2011)

In re Tricom, S.A.

Represented Tricom, S.A. and its affiliates, TCN Dominicana, S.A. and Tricom USA, Inc., in their Chapter 11 cases in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (Chapter 11 Case No. 08-10720), which involved the restructuring of more than $700 million in bond and other loan facility debt. Tricom, S.A. and its affiliates are, collectively, one of the preeminent full service providers of telecommunications services in the Dominican Republic. In October of 2009, the debtors confirmed a plan of reorganization with overwhelming creditor support. The cases represent the first effort to reorganize a public Dominican Republican corporation under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2010).

Landsbanki Islands hf.

Represented Landsbanki Islands hf. in Chapter 15 proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. (2009).

In re Paper International, Inc.

Represented Paper International, Inc. (“PII”), and Fiber Management of Texas, Inc. (“FMT”), in their Chapter 11 cases in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (Chapter 11 Case No. 08-13917). (2009).