Overview
Allison Weiss represents debtors, financial guarantors, indenture trustees, creditors, and shareholders in Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Allison works with clients in a variety of industries including automotive, energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. She regularly advises boards of directors in distressed situations and provides counsel to parties to credit default swap transactions.
Allison previously served as counsel at three large international law firms, and advised on numerous bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Her practice covered all aspects of domestic and international business reorganizations and debt restructurings, as well as crisis management, corporate governance and the acquisition and sale of assets and troubled companies in Chapter 11.
- New York
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York
- US District Court, Southern District of New York
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1994
- B.A., University of Michigan, 1991
Representative Matters
- Represented Acquiom Agency Services LLC and Seaport Loan Products LLC as Co-Administrative Agents under the $1.78 billion prepetition secured term loan facility and as DIP Agents under the $250 million DIP Facility in the Chapter 11 cases of Mallinckrodt plc and its affiliates.
- Represented Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as Agent under the $50 million prepetition Bridge Facility and DIP Agent under the $200 million DIP Facility in the Chapter 11 cases of Cyxtera Holdings and its affiliates.
- Represented Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as DIP Agent under the $275 million DIP Facility in the Chapter 11 cases of Venator Materials PLC and its affiliates.
- Represented the independent director of Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc. in the Chapter 11 cases of Voyager.
- Represented CN Borrower LLC and its subsidiaries in the Chapter 11 case of Compute North LLC.
- Represented CQS (UK) LLC in the Chapter 11 cases of Talen Energy and its subsidiaries.
- Represented UMB Bank as agent under Quorum Health’s Chapter 11 exit facility.
- Represented Newmark Group, Inc. in its acquisition of Knotel, Inc. as part of Knotel’s Chapter 11 case.
- Represented Purdue Pharma L.P. and its subsidiaries as special conflicts counsel in their Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented CQS (US) LLC in the Chapter 11 cases of Windstream Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
- Represented EY Bermuda as the Joint Provisional Liquidator in the George’s Bay Limited Chapter 15 case pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Represented 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries as post effective date bankruptcy counsel in their Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented large US-based hedge fund in connection with its out-of-court restructuring.
- Represented GT Advanced Technologies, Inc., as special litigation counsel, in its Chapter 11 case.
- Represented GPB Capital Holdings in the Insightra Medical, Inc. Chapter 11 case.
- Represented official creditors' committee of Garden of Eden Enterprises.
- Represented official creditors' committee of Yosi Samra, Inc.
- Represented Ambac Financial Group, Inc., in its Chapter 11 case.
- Represented Ambac Assurance Corporation in its rehabilitation in Wisconsin of its Segregated Account.
- Represented Ambac Assurance Corporation in connection with its global commutation of its outstanding obligations under numerous credit default swaps and related CDOs.
- Advised monoline insurers and their affiliates on reorganization and restructuring options under federal and state insolvency laws.
- Represented US Bank, as indenture trustee, in the Grubb & Ellis Co. Chapter 11 case.
- Represented Deutsche Bank, as indenture trustee and member of the Statutory Committee of Unsecured Creditors, in the Bank United Financial Corporation and the Colonial BancGroup, Inc. Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented Deutsche Bank, as indenture trustee and member of the Statutory Committee of Unsecured Creditors, in the Asarco Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented several creditors in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s Chapter 11 cases.
- Advised General Motors prior to the commencement of its Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented US Bank, as indenture trustee, in the Northwest Airlines, Delta Airlines and US Airways Chapter 11 cases.
- Represented RSL Com USA, Inc. and its subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 cases.
- Advised Enron and other energy companies in various bankruptcy disputes.
- Represented the trustee in the Securities Investor Protection Act liquidations of securities brokers Duke & Co., Inc. and Cressida Capital Inc.
- Represented New York retailer Barneys, Inc. in its Chapter 11 case and complex Chapter 11 lien avoidance and turnover litigation.
Professional Affiliations
- Member, International Restructuring and Insolvency Confederation
- Lifetime Member, University of Michigan Alumni Association