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SKDKnickerbocker is handling the Chapter 11 filing of California Pizza Kitchen, which is restructuring to reduce its debt and shutter money-losing restaurants.
The "unprecedented impact of COVID-19" on CPK's business also triggered the need to declare bankruptcy, according to CEO Jim Hyatt.
He views the financial reorganization as "a step towards a stronger future" for the chain of more than 200 restaurants.
Founded in 1985 in Beverly Hills, CPK is expected to emerge from Chapter 11 in three months.
Heather Wilson, who heads SKDK's west coast operations, is working the CPK filing.
Mark Penn's Stagwell Group owns SKDK.
The Blueshirt Group handles Lime as the San Francisco-based electric bike/scooter company has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, which will have an expected valuation in the $2B range.
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ICR handles Rare Earths Americas as the Manchester, Georgia-based company plans an initial public offering valued in the $370M range.
DGA Group handles takeover target Intertek as the London-based quality assurance testing company as it launches a strategic review of its operations.
