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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.
Edelman handles Viking Holdings, the river and ocean luxury cruise line that plans to raise $1B via an IPO priced in the $21 to $25 per share range.
Teneo is handling the initial public offering of CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms with nearly $200B in assets under management.
Brunswick Group represents Endeavor Group Holdings as it agrees to go private via its acquisition by Silver Lake technology investment firm, which is handled by Edelman Smithfield.
Tod Donhauser, a nine-year veteran of Edelman, has joined H/Advisors Abernathy as managing director and head of its San Francisco office.
Intelligent Group Ltd, a Hong Kong-based financial PR firm, has priced its initial public offering of 1.9M shares at $4, which is the low end of the $4 to $5 range.
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