Mette has experience in numerous industries, including retail, restaurants, health care, real estate, gaming, manufacturing and distribution, imports, fitness, financial services, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, and multi-level marketing. Some representative matters are listed below.

• Contessa Premium Foods, Inc. Represented the official creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case of this California-based fine frozen food producer and retailer; successfully opposed an initial quick sale process and instead secured an auction process that resulted in the approval of the highest and best bidder for the debtor’s assets, resulting in 100% recoveries for unsecured creditors.
• Little Tokyo Partners, L.P. Represented the official creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case for the New Otani Hotel and the adjacent retail center in downtown Los Angeles, again successfully achieving 100% recoveries for unsecured creditors.
• McGrath’s Publick Fish House, Inc. Represented the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case of this $17 million restaurant chain based in Salem, Oregon. The committee was formed when the debtor proposed to pay unsecured creditors only from the debtor’s future available cash, if any, while leaving all of the equity in the hands of the original owners. Within a few months, we successfully obtained an additional $1.5 million cash payment for unsecured creditors.
• Right Start Acquisition Company and Baby Style, Inc. Represented the creditors’ committee for Right Start, one of the largest national specialty retailers of juvenile products, and Baby Style, an on-line retailer of maternity and baby clothes and products, in their liquidating Chapter 11 case, which resulted in the orderly wind-down of the business through a series of going-out-of-business sales and a bankruptcy-court auction as well as the creation of a creditors’ trust to pursue litigation assets for the benefit of unsecured creditors.
• Norman J. Salter. Represented the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case for Norman J. Salter (the 50% owner of the West Millennium Group, a developer of multi-family for sale and mixed use development in Southern California), with large number of interests in various real property LLCs and “single purpose entities” and personal guaranty liability in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The representation included a significant investigation of Mr. Salter and several of the West Millennium entities in order to ascertain whether any assets had been fraudulently transferred away from unsecured creditors and the resolution of various tax related matters to ensure a distribution to trade creditors.
• Crew Creative Advertising, LLC. Represented the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case of this $10 million advertising company catering to Southern California’s movie and entertainment industry.
• Robert Henry Bisno. Represented the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case of this Southern California real estate investor.
• Karawia Industries, Inc. Represented the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case of this Southern California security and janitorial company.
• Bodies in Motion. Represented the official creditors’ committee of a regional fitness club in connection with the debtor’s efforts to sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor’s proposal to sell the company to an insider, and instead secured the approval of the highest and best bidder for the debtor’s assets, as selected by the committee, resulting in significant additional recoveries to unsecured creditors.
• The Walking Company. Co-counsel to the Creditors Committee for this $83-million revenue retailer of specialty footwear. Successfully opposed the debtor’s sale efforts and insider-sponsored plan, which ultimately resulted in the sale of the company to a third-party and significantly enhanced unsecured creditor recoveries.

• Turnaround Management Association
  National Board of Directors (2009-Present)
  National Committee Member, Various Committees (2008-Present)
  President, Officer & Board Member, Southern California chapter (2004-2008)
• Turnaround Management Associations’ Western Regional Conference
  Co-Chairman (2009)
• California Bankruptcy Forum, Conference
  Co-Chairman (2009)
• Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
  Officer & Member of the Board of Directors (2005-2008)
• Financial Lawyers Conference
  Board of Governors (2005-2007)
• Member of various bar organizations, including the American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

• 20th Annual ABI Southwest Bankruptcy Conference, Fundamental Skills Track (September 2012)
• Rossberg Group Webinar, Mastering Series on Bankruptcy (September 2011)
• Pincus Professional Education Webinar, Business Bankruptcy Boot Camp: Chapter 11 Demystified (September 2010)
• Association of Insolvency & Restructuring 26th Annual Bankruptcy and Restructuring Conference, Seeking “Safe Harbor” During an Economic Storm (June 2010)
• Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors Webinar, Strategies for Distressed Retailers and Restaurants (May 2010)
• Strafford Teleconference, Prepackaged and Prenegotiated Chapter 11 Reorganizations (June 2009)
• Association for Corporate Growth Los Angeles Restructuring Panel, Strategic Options in Today’s Difficult Economy (April 2009)
• Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, Valcon 2009: Risk, Restructurings, Real Estate and Retail (February 2009)
• Webinar, Structuring & Completing Distressed Transactions in California: What Investors and Lenders Need to Know (November 2006)
• American Bar Association, Whose Case is it Anyway? Taking Control Through a Creditor Plan of Reorganization (2006 Spring Meeting)