Counseled Murray Energy Holdings Co. through Chapter 11

Client: Murray Energy Holdings Co.

Travis represented Murray Energy Holdings Co. and certain of its subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  Murray was the largest privately owned coal company in the United States, headquartered in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and had operations primarily in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois, Utah, and Colombia, South America.  Murray employed nearly 5,500 people, including approximately 2,400 active union members. Murray entered Chapter 11 with approximately $2.7 billion in prepetition funded debt and more than $8 billion in actual or potential pension and employee benefit obligations.