AMERICAN APPAREL, LLC, et al.,1 Debtors.

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IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
:
In re: : Chapter 11
:
AMERICAN APPAREL, LLC, et al.,1 : Case No. 16-12551 (BLS)
:
Debtors. : (Jointly Administered)
:
AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE
I, Hassan Alli-Balogun, depose and say that I am employed by Prime Clerk LLC (“Prime
Clerk”), the claims and noticing agent for the Debtors in the above-captioned chapter 11 cases.
On January 10, 2017, at my direction and under my supervision, employees of Prime Clerk
caused the following document to be served via Email 1) on the Core/2002 Email Service List
attached hereto as Exhibit A; 2) on the Attorney Generals’ Email Parties Service List attached
hereto as Exhibit B; 3) on the Claimant Email Parties Service List attached hereto as
Exhibit C; 4) on the Sale Motion Email Parties Service List attached hereto as Exhibit D; and 5)
on Wilmington Trust, North America As Administrative Agent, 50 South Sixth St, Ste 1290,
Minneapolis, MN, 55402, ‘[email protected]’:
 Notice of (I) Successful Bidders and Backup Bidder and (II) Proposed Assumed and
Assigned Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases in Connection with Sale
[Docket No. 451]
On January 10, 2017, at my direction and under my supervision, employees of Prime
Clerk caused the following document to be served 1) via Overnight Mail on the IRS Parties
Service List attached hereto as Exhibit E; 2) on the Attorney Generals’ Parties Service List
attached hereto as Exhibit F; 3) on the Claimant Parties Service List attached hereto as Exhibit
G; 4) on Richard Peterson Law Offices, Richard Peterson, 2015 Montrose Ave, Montrose, CA,
91020; 5) on the Schedule D Parties Service List attached hereto as Exhibit H; and 6) on the
Schedule F Parties Service List attached hereto as Exhibit I:
 Notice of (I) Successful Bidders and Backup Bidder and (II) Proposed Assumed and
Assigned Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases in Connection with Sale, a copy of
which is attached hereto as Exhibit J.
On January 11, 2017, at my direction and under my supervision, employees of Prime Clerk
caused the following document to be served via Email on the Affected Parties Service List
attached hereto as Exhibit K;
1 The Debtors are the following six entities (the last four digits of their respective taxpayer identification numbers
follow in parentheses): American Apparel, LLC (0601); American Apparel (USA), LLC (8940); American Apparel
Retail, Inc. (7829); American Apparel Dyeing & Finishing, Inc. (0324); KCL Knitting, LLC (9518); and Fresh Air
Freight, Inc. (3870). The address of each of the Debtors is 747 Warehouse Street, Los Angeles, California 90021.
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Exhibit A
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Attn:  Thomas H. Kovach, Esq.
27 Crimson King
Counsel to 704 Broadway Realty, LLC A.M. Saccullo Legal, LLC Bear DE 19701 [email protected]
Attn:  Chelsea A. Grayson, Esq., CEO & Lance Miller, Esq., Vice President of Legal 
747 Warehouse Street [email protected]
Debtors American Apparel, LLC Los Angeles CA 90021 [email protected]
Attn:  Scott E. Shapiro, Esq.
15233 Ventura Blvd
Suite 420
Counsel to Hudson 6922 Hollywood, LLC Appell Shapiro, LLP Sherman Oaks CA 91403 [email protected]
Attn:   Gregory Taylor
500 Delaware Avenue
Counsel to the DIP Secured Parties Ashby & Geddes, P.A. Wilmington DE 19899 GTaylor@ashby‐geddes.com
Attn:  Gregory A. Taylor, Esq. & Benjamin W. Keenan, Esq.
500 Delaware Avenue, 8th Floor
PO Box 1150 GTaylor@ashby‐geddes.com
Counsel to Encina Business Credit, LLC Ashby & Geddes, PA Wilmington DE 19899‐1150 bkeenan@ashby‐geddes.com
Attn: Jacob Wood
450 Park Avenue jwood@atlas‐cap.com
4th Floor notices@atlas‐cap.com
Counsel to Alameda Square Owner, LLC Atlas Capital Group, LLC New York NY 10022 jgoldberger@atlas‐cap.com
Attn:  Leslie Heilman, Esquire; Matthew Summers, Esquire and Laurel D. Roglen, Esquire
919 Market Street [email protected]
Counsel to GGP Limited Partnership and The Trustees of the  11th Floor [email protected]
University of Pennsylvania Ballard Spahr ,LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  David L. Pollack, Esquire
51st Floor ‐ Mellon Bank Center
Counsel to GGP Limited Partnership and The Trustees of the  1735 Market Street
University of Pennsylvania Ballard Spahr, LLP Philadelphia PA 19103 [email protected]
Attn:  Dustin P. Branch
2029 Century Park East
Counsel to Starwood Retail Partners, LLC & Deutsche Asset &  Suite 800
Wealth Management Ballard Spahr, LLP Los Angeles CA 90067‐2909 [email protected]
Attn:  Leslie C. Heilman
919 North Market Street
Counsel to Starwood Retail Partners, LLC & Deutsche Asset &  11th Floor
Wealth Management Ballard Spahr, LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn: Justin R. Alberto, Evan T. Miller, Gregory J. Flasser
222 Delaware Avenue [email protected]
Suite 900 [email protected]
Counsel to the Committee of Unsecured Creditors Bayard, PA Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  S. Stewart Smith, Esq.
270 Madison Avenue
Counsel to The A.J.D. Building, LLC` Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, LLP New York NY 10016 [email protected]
Attn:  Ernie Zachary Park
13215 E. Penn Street
Suite 510
Counsel to The Irvine Company LLC Bewley, Lasselben & Miller, LLP Whittier CA 90602‐1797 [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Attn: Lawrence M. Schwab, Esq., Kenneth T. Law, Esq.
633 Menlo Ave.
Bialson, Bergen & Schwab, a Professional  Suite 100
Counsel to UPS Corporation Menlo Park CA 94025 [email protected]
Attn:  Michael W. Malter & Robert G. Harris
2775 Park Avenue [email protected]
Counsel to Color Image Apparel, Inc. Binder & Malter, LLP Santa Clara CA 95050 [email protected]
Attn:  John E. Lucian
One Logan Square
130 North 18th Street
Counsel to Liberty Property Limited Partnership Blank Rome, LLP Philadelphia PA 19103‐6998 [email protected]
Attn:  Victoria A. Guilfoyle
1201 Market Street 
Suite 800
Counsel to Liberty Property Limited Partnership Blank Rome, LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Jami B. Nimeroff, Esq.
901 N. Market St.
Suite 1300
Counsel to Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Licensing, GP Brown McGarry Nimeroff, LLC Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Shawn M. Christianson, Esq.
55 Second Street,
Buchalter Nemer, A Professional  17th Floor
Counsel to Oracle America, Inc. Corporation San Francisco CA 94105‐3493 [email protected]
Attn:  Jeffrey K. Garfinkle, Esq.
18400 Von Karman Avenue 
Counsel for Atalaya Asset Income Fund I LP and Consultants Group  Suite 800
Commercial Funding Corporation dba CG Commercial Finance Buchalter Nemer, PC Irvine CA 92612 [email protected]
Attn:  Kevin C. Calhoun
29828 Telegraph Road
Counsel to Oakland County Treasurer Calhoun & Di Ponio, PLC Southfield MI 48034‐1338 [email protected]
Attn:  Karen C. Bifferato & Kelly M. Conlan
1000 West Street
Suite 1400 [email protected]
Counsel to Greeen Valley ‐ Ross Partnership Connolly Gallagher, LLP Wilmingotn DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn: Cathy Hershcopf, Seth Van Aalten, Michael Klein [email protected]
1114 Avenue of the Americas [email protected]
Counsel to the Committee of Unsecured Creditors Cooley, LLP New York NY 10036 [email protected]
Counsel to Wilmington Trust, National Association, as  Attn:  Ronald Hewitt
administrative agent to the Debtors' prepetition secured lenders  620 Eighth Avenue
[and DIP lenders] Covington & Burling, LLP New York NY 10018 [email protected]
[email protected]
Attn:  M. Natasha Labovitz, Shannon Rose Selden, Craig A. Bruens, Erica S. Weisgerber [email protected]
919 Third Avenue [email protected]
Counsel to Standard General, LP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York NY 10022 [email protected]
Attn:  Zillah Frampton, Bankruptcy Administrator
Division of Revenue/Bankrupcty Services
Carvel State Office Building, 8th Floor
Delaware Division of Revenue Delaware Division of Revenue Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Division of Corporations
Franchise Tax Division
PO Box 898
Delaware Secretary of State Delaware Secretary of State Dover  DE 19903 [email protected]
Attn:  Officer, Managing Agent, or General Agent
820 Silver Lake Blvd.
Suite 100
Delaware State Treasury Delaware State Treasury Dover  DE 19904 [email protected]
Attn:  Jennifer R. Noel, Deputy Attorney General
Carvel State Office Building
820 N. French Street SLC C600
Department of Justice Department of Justice ‐ State of Delaware Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn: Steven K. Kortanek, Esq.
222 Delaware Avenue
Suite 1410
Counsel to FTI Consulting, Inc. Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Jeffrey M. Schlerf
919 North Market Street
Counsel to the Debtors' prepetition secured lenders [and DIP  Suite 300
lenders] Fox Rothschild, LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Kristen N. Pate
110 N. Wacker Drive
Counsel to GGP Limited Partnership GGP Limited Partnership Chicago IL 60606 [email protected]
Attn:  Robert D. Bass, Esq.
16000 Ventura Boulevard 
Suite 1000
Counsel to Westside Properties, LLC Greenberg & Bass, LLP Encino CA 91436 [email protected]
Attn: Jennifer C. Johnson
200 Page Mill Road
Suite 200
Counsel to Richard & Marie Moresco Hopkins & Carley Palo Alto CA 94306 [email protected]
Attn: Monique Jewett‐Brewster
70 South First Street
Counsel to Richard & Marie Moresco Hopkins & Carley San Jose CA 95113 [email protected]
Attn:  Monica S. Blacker
2323 Ross Avenue
Suite 600
Counsel to Klein Estate, Ltd. Jackson Walker ,LLP Dallas TX 75201 [email protected]
Attn:  Thad Armstrong
1401 McKinney Street
Suite 1900
Counsel to Klein Estate, Ltd. Jackson Walker, LLP Houston TX 77010 [email protected]
Attn:  Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Esq.
300 Garden City Plaza
Counsel to I&L Weiss, LLC Jaspan Schlesinger, LLP Garden City NY 11530 [email protected]
Attn:  Jeff Katofsky
Counsel to Anaya's Cutting, Inc., Liz Cutting Service, Inc., VK  4558 Sherman Oaks Avenue
Cutting, Inc., and Jalisco's Apparel, Inc. Jeff Katofsky, Esq. Sherman Oaks CA 91403 [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Attn:  Erin N. Brady, Esq.
555 South Flower Street
 50th Floor
Counsel to Debtor Jones Day Los Angeles CA 90071 [email protected]
Attn:  Scott J. Greenberg, Esq. & Michael J. Cohen, Esq.
250 Vesey Street [email protected]
Counsel to Debtor Jones Day New York NY 10281 [email protected]
Attn:  Steve Ahn
1751 E. Del Amo Blvd.
Interested Party JS Apparel Carson CA 90746 [email protected]
Attn:  David Posner, Esq.
The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
Counsel to the DIP Secured Parties & Litigation Trustee  Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP New York NY 10036‐7703 [email protected]
Attn:  Kenneth H. Eckstein, Esq. & Anupama Yerramalli, Esq.
1177 Avenue of the Americas  [email protected]
Counsel to FTI Consulting, Inc. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankell, LLP New York NY 10036 [email protected]
Attn:  Susan E. Kaufman, Esq.
919 North Market Street 
Suite 460
Counsel to The Taubman Landlords Law Office of Susan E. Kaufman, LLC Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Douglas T. Tabachnik, Esq.
63 West Main St.
Counsel to Williamsburg Retail SPE, LLC & RS JZ Bedford – N 6th,  Suite C
LLC Law Offices of Douglas T. Tabachnik, P.C. Freehold NJ 07728‐2141 [email protected]
Attn:  Andrew L. Cole
800 North King Street
Suit 303
Counsel to Westfield, LLC LeClairRyan Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Niclas A. Ferland, Esq., Ilan Markus, Esq.
545 Long Wharf Drive
9th Floor [email protected]
Counsel to Westfield, LLC LeClairRyan New Haven CT 06511 [email protected]
Attn:  Tom Lallas
815 Moraga Drive
Counsel to American Commercial Equities Three, LLC, Levy, Small & Lallas Los Angeles CA 90049‐1633 tlallas@lsl‐la.com
Attn: Don Stecker
711 Navarro Street
Ste. 300
Counsel to Bexar County Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP San Antonio TX 78205 [email protected]
Attn: Elizabeth Weller
2777 N. Stemmons Freeway
Suite 1000
Counsel to Dallas County Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP Dallas TX 75207 [email protected]
Attn: John P. Dillman
PO Box 3064
Counsel to Harris County Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP Houston TX 77253‐3064 [email protected]
Attn Robbin L. Itkin, Esq., Alexandra S. Kelly, Esq.
1100 Glendon Avenue
14th Floor [email protected]
Counsel to Alameda Square Owner, LLC Liner, LLP Los Angeles CA 90024 [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Attn:  Daniel B. Besikof
345 Park Avenue
Counsel to 1841 Broadway Associates Loeb & Loeb, LLP New York NY 10154 [email protected]
Attn:  Amish R. Doshi, Esq.
23 Green Street, Suite 302
Counsel to Oracle America, Inc. Magnozzi & Kye, LLP Huntington NY 11743 [email protected]
Attn:  Joseph A. Malfitano, PLLC
747 Third Avenue
Counsel to Hilco Merchant Resources, LLC and Gordon Brothers  2nd Floor
Retail Partners, LLC Malfitano Partners New York NY 10017 [email protected]
Attn:  Gerard Uzzi
Counsel to the Debtors' prepetition secured lenders [and DIP  28 Liberty Street
lenders] Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP New York NY 10005 [email protected]
Attn:  Steven A. Ginther
Missouri Department of Revenue,  PO Box 475
Counsel to Missouri Department of Revenue Bankruptcy Unit Jefferson City MO 65105‐0475 [email protected]
Attn:  Brett D. Fallon, Brenna A. Dolphin
500 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1500
P.O. Box 2306 [email protected]
Counsel to Hudson 6922 Hollywood, LLC Morris James LLP Wilmington DE 19899‐2306 [email protected]
Attn:  Louis J. Testa, Esq.
Civil Recoveries Bureau
Office of the New York State Attorney  Bankruptcy Litigation Unit
Counsel to New York State Department of Taxation and Finance General Albany NY 12224‐0341 [email protected]
Attn:  Jane M. Leamy, Esquire 
844 King Street, Suite 2207
Lockbox #35
United States Trustee District of Delaware Office of the United States Trustee Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Michael S. Fox, Esq.
1325 Avenue of the Americas
Counsel to 704 Broadway Realty, LLC Olshan Frome Wolosky, LLP New York NY 10019 [email protected]
Attn:  Laura Davis Jones, Esq., James E. O'Neill, Esq. &  Joseph M. Mulvihill, Esq.
919 N. Market Street, [email protected]
17th Floor [email protected]
Counsel to Debtor Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, LLP Wilmington DE 19899‐8705 [email protected]
Attn:  David M. Fournier, Esq.
Hercules Plaza, Suite 5100
1313 N. Market Street
Counsel to Wilmington Trust, National Association Pepper Hamilton, LLP Wilmington DE 19899‐1709 [email protected]
Attn:  Anthony F . Giuliano, Esq.
675 Old Country Road
Counsel to Safety Facility Services Pryor & Mandelup, LLP Westbury NY 11590 [email protected]
Attn: Joseph E. Shickich, Jr.
1001 ‐ 4th Avenue
Suite 4500
Counsel to Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Licensing, GP Riddell Williams, PS Seattle WA 98154 [email protected]
Attn:  Donald E. Rothman, Esq. & Alexander G. Rheaume, Esq.
Three Center Plaza 
Suite 600 [email protected]
Counsel to Encina Business Credit, LLC & DIP Secured Parties Riemer & Braunstein, LLP Boston MA 02108‐ [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Attn:  Steven E. Fox, Esq. & Lon M. Singer, Esq.
Times Square Tower, Suite 2506
Seven Times Square [email protected]
Counsel to Encina Business Credit, LLC & DIP Secured Parties Riemer & Braunstein, LLP New York NY 10036 [email protected]
Attn:  Stuart I. Gordon, Matthew V. Spero
926 RXR Plaza [email protected]
Counsel to Lincoln Centurion Retail, LLC Rivkin Radler, LLP Uniondale NY 11556‐0926 [email protected]
Attn:  Secretary of the Treasury
100 F Street, NE
Securities and Exchange Commission ‐ Headquarters Securities & Exchange Commission Washington DC 20549 [email protected]
Attn:  Andrew Calamari, Regional Director
Brookfield Place
Securities & Exchange Commission ‐ NY  200 Vesey Street
Securities and Exchange Commission ‐ Regional Office Office New York NY 10281‐1022 [email protected]
Attn:  Bankruptcy Dept
One Penn Center
Securities & Exchange Commission ‐  1617 JFK Blvd Ste 520
Securities and Exchange Commission ‐ Regional Office Philadelphia Office Philadelphia PA 19103 [email protected]
Attn:  Ronald M. Tucker, Esq.
225 West Washington Street
Counsel to Simon Property Group, Inc. Simon Property Group, Inc. Indianapolis IN 46204 [email protected]
Attn:  Craig S. Sternberg
520 Pike Street
Ste. 2250
Counsel to Bienes Racies Daniel, SA Sternberg Thomson Okrent & Scher, PLLC Seattle  WA 98101 [email protected]
Attn:  Michael H. Torkin, Brian E. Hamilton, Miaoting Wu [email protected]
125 Broad Street [email protected]
Counsel to the Stalking Horse and Gildan Activewear, Srl Sullivan & Cromwell ,LLP New York NY 10004 [email protected]
Attn:  Frederick B. Rosner Esq.
824 Market Street
Counsel to Williamsburg Retail SPE, LLC & RS JZ Bedford – N 6th,  Suite 810
LLC The Rosner Law Group, LLC Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Frederick B. Rosner, Esq., Scott J. Leonhardt, Esq., Jason A. Gibson, Esq.
824 N. Market Street [email protected]
Suite 810 [email protected]
Counsel to The A.J.D. Building, LLC The Rosner Law Group, LLC Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn:  Andrew S. Conway, Esq.
200 East Long Lake Road
Suite 300
Counsel to The Taubman Landlords The Taubman Company Bloomfield Hills MI 48304 [email protected]
Attn:  Kay D. Brock
PO Box 1748
Counsel to Travis County Travis County Attorney Austin TX 78767 [email protected]
Attn:  David Weiss/Ellen Slights
1007 Orange St., Suite 700
PO Box 2046
US Attorney for the District of Delaware US Attorney for Delaware Wilmington DE 19899‐2046 [email protected]
Attn: Duane D. Werb, Matthew P. Austria
300 Delaware Avenue
Suite 1300 [email protected]
Counsel to Richard & Marie Moresco Werb & Sullivan Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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Exhibit A
Core/2002 Email Service List
Served via Email
DESCRIPTION NAME ADDRESS EMAIL
Attn:  William A. Van Roo
13863 Quarterhouse Drive
Counsel to Greeen Valley ‐ Ross Partnership William A. Van Roo, PC Grass Valley CA 95949‐7816 [email protected]
Attn:  Meghan McCauley
50 South Sixth Street
Suite 1290
Counsel to Wilmington Trust, National Association Wilmington Trust, National Association Minneapolis MN 55402 [email protected]
Attn:  Matthew P. Ward, Esq.
222 Delaware Avenue 
Suite 1501
Counsel to Gildan Activewear, Srl Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
Attn: Edmon L. Morton & Joseph M. Barry
Rodney Square
1000 North King St. [email protected]
Counsel to Standard General ,LP Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP Wilmington DE 19801 [email protected]
In re American Apparel, LLC, et al.
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