York, Cindy

Rick Wynne's practice focuses on complex restructuring matters, representing debtors, official creditors committees, ad hoc committees, purchasers, and lenders in US and international chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, sports, real estate (commercial, residential, and hotels), transportation, insurance and financial services, retail, food distribution, manufacturing, natural gas, oil and ethanol, as well as the entertainment industry.

Rick's committee representations include the Ad Hoc Bondholders Committee in Chemtura and the Non-Agent Secured Lenders Committee in the Adelphia chapter 11 cases.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Rick's debtor cases included Conseco, then the third largest chapter 11 case; Fleming, the largest US wholesale food distributor; the Chevy's chain of restaurants; the Wendy's of San Diego franchise group; and the Hollywood Roosevelt, Westwood Marquis, and Sir Francis Drake hotels. His prior committee representations included the official creditors committees in Williams Communications; Carolco Pictures; Maruko, the first major reorganization case to take place simultaneously in the United States and Japan, involving $3.5 billion in worldwide real estate holdings; and the Reed Slatkin investment club, the largest chapter 11 case up to that time involving a Ponzi scheme.

Rick is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a board member of the American Board of Certification (Business Bankruptcy). He has been highlighted in Chambers USA, the guide to leading lawyers, in the past several years.