Partner, Washington DC
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108

TEL: 202.496.7436
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: dcarrigan@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Daniel Carrigan is a partner in the Washington DC office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Since 1981, Mr. Carrigan has pursued a diversified bankruptcy/insolvency related practice throughout the United States. 

Related Cases

Below are examples of bankruptcy cases of national interest in which Mr. Carrigan served as counsel to one or more of the primary parties-in-interest:

• The seven (7) Landmark Land Company of Carolina, Inc. et al., cases in the District of South Carolina, on behalf of the Resolution Trust Corporation as Conservator/Receiver of Oak Tree Federal Savings Bank and, ultimately, the Debtors; this was one of the larger administratively consolidated Chapter 11 cases in the country, involving over $1 billion in claims and several of the best known golf resort facilities in the United States (for instance, PGA West, La Quinta, Mission Hills and Carmel Valley Ranch in California; Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida; the Oak Tree Clubs in Oklahoma; and the Kiawah Island Resort and the Ocean Course near Charleston, South Carolina).  The creditor group represented by the firm eventually ousted prior management, reorganized the country clubs under plans approved by most of the 7,500 club members, and sold the resorts in a highly-publicized auction sale in which many of the major investment bankers in the United States participated.
  
  
• The Brandermill-Oxford Limited Partnership and Casselberry-Oxford Limited Partnership cases in the District of Maryland, on behalf of the Committees of Equity Interest Holders; in these multifamily residential asset cases, plans of reorganization were negotiated and implemented, allowing the equity interest holders to retain their and avoid recapture, while restructuring the longer term debt of the secured creditors.
  
  
• The Belle Casino, Inc., et al. cases in the Southern District of Mississippi, on behalf of the Debtors’ insurer and a member of the Creditors Committee.
  
  
• The Allied Fidelity Corporation, et al. cases in the Southern District of Indiana, on behalf of the Statutory Liquidator for the State Board of Insurance of the State of Texas, and Permanent Receiver of the Texas Fire and Casualty Company.
  
  
• The Arizona Retirement Centers, Inc. case in the District of Arizona, on behalf of the Debtor’s senior secured noteholder; in this “prearranged” case, a plan of reorganization, disclosure statement and post-petition financing agreement were negotiated pre-petition, filed concurrently with the Chapter 11 petition and approved within approximately ninety days thereafter.
  
  
• The TeleAmerica Corporation, et al. cases in the District of Delaware, on behalf of the secured creditor and sole shareholder, in which the controlling contract servicer was removed from control, the profitability of the Debtors’ operations restored, and a plan of reorganization confirmed and implemented in less than a year.
  
  
• The Patriot’s Point Associates, Ltd. case in the District of South Carolina, on behalf of the holder of a majority of the defaulted revenue bonds issued by the Debtor to finance the construction of a ship museum, hotel and marina.
  
  
• The Fleming Companies case in the District of Delaware, initially on behalf of the Ad Hoc Committee of Reclamation Creditors, and subsequently on behalf of the Official Committee of Reclamation Creditors.

In addition, Mr. Carrigan has represented the joint boards of trustees of multiemployer pension funds, as major creditors and members of creditors’ committees, in the Wickes Companies, Inc. et al. (California) and Liberal Markets, Inc. et al. (Ohio) Chapter 11 proceedings, various national banks in Philadelphia and Boston in their capacities as indenture trustees for multiple defaulted bond issues in the North American Car Corporation, et al. (California) and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, et al. (Pennsylvania) reorganizations, and the Committee of Secured Creditors in the orderly liquidation, pursuant to a negotiated plan, of a public land development, sales, construction, property management, and brokerage company in the Unishelter, Inc. (Wisconsin) Chapter 11 case.  Together with Nathan Feinstein, he served as lead bankruptcy counsel for the Debtors in the reorganization of the Benjamin Coal Company and the Swatara Coal Company (Pennsylvania) reorganization.  For nearly three years, he was engaged, on an almost full-time basis, as counsel to statutory and court appointed receivers and rehabilitators in state and federal court proceedings arising from the insolvency of property and casualty, life and other insurance companies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas; he also served as counsel for the U.S. District Appointed Receiver in the Securities and Exchange Commission v. Paul A. Bilzerian SEC enforcement action.  For several years thereafter, he had the unique experience and privilege to be assigned, on-site and on an essentially exclusive basis, for approximately a year to assist in the internal restructuring and reinvigoration of a multi-dimensional public company.

            In December 2007, Washingtonian magazine named him to its list of Washington's top lawyers. He also an AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

            Mr. Carrigan is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1976) and Georgetown University (B.A., cum laude, 1971; Phi Beta Kappa). He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Henry D. Evans, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland (1980-1981); and served as a U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General Corps in Fort Devens, Massachusetts (1976-1980).