Represented Mi Pueblo, a portfolio company of Victory Park Capital, in its sale to an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. Mi Pueblo is Northern California’s leading Hispanic grocery retailer.

Counsel to Gilbert Hospital, a general acute-care hospital based in Gilbert, Arizona in its merger with Florence Hospital at Anthem pursuant to a confirmed Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. We advised on all aspects of a sophisticated merger transaction, including transition of the two hospitals under joint ownership and operation, coordinating employment and equity compensation documents for employees, and identifying and resolving health care regulatory aspects of the foregoing.

Counsel to Regional Care Services Corporation, the parent company of Casa Grande Regional Medical Center based in Casa Grande, Arizona, in negotiating the sale of the hospital assets to Banner Health pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement and related transactions. Representation encompassed all aspects of this sophisticated sale transaction, including the sale process and APA, coordinating interim financing arrangements and reorganization under Chapter 11, and identifying and resolving all health care regulatory aspects of the foregoing.

Counsel to PAS Technologies Inc. in a squeeze-out merger of PAS Tech Holdings, Inc. and recapitalization by KRG Capital Partners, AlpInvest and Pennant Park, with simultaneous restructure of syndicated senior credit facility, conversion of subordinated debt to equity and equity capital infusion.

Counsel to Big Sandy Holding Co., Inc., a bank holding company, as seller and debtor in its Chapter 11 case in a Section 363 sale of its stock in Mile High Banks and concurrent recapitalization by Strategic Growth Bancorp, Inc. for a total of approximately $100 million. During the 363 process, Big Sandy received a competing bid from a third party, so the transaction involved the first-ever competitive auction of a bank in a Section 363 sale.

Counsel to the purchaser in the $90 million purchase of a portfolio of four apartment complexes in the Denver - Colorado Springs metro areas. Brownstein was Colorado counsel on the acquisition agreement, title and survey review and curative work, water rights due diligence and opinion letters for financing by FHLMC (Freddie Mac).

Counsel to a major national bank in a workout of a $10 million loan secured by Western Slope hospitals.

Counsel to a junior mortgage lender in the $15.5 million acquisition of a senior lender's distressed debt for Lumiere Telluride Hotel, followed by the completion of a deed-in-lieu transaction.

Counsel to Western Athletic Clubs in the reorganization of its corporate structure through internal corporate mergers.

Represented Global Employment Holdings, Inc. in a $120 million recapitalization and public shell merger.