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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Meredith A. Lahaie
Work Department
Partner; Financial Restructuring
Position
Meredith Lahaie advises on complex restructuring cases of all sizes, both in and out of court. She represents debtors, creditors, bondholders, debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders and acquirers of businesses and assets in large, complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Meredith advises clients from a wide variety of industries, including energy and energy services, shipping, entertainment, and retail. She is regarded as one of the industry’s leading young restructuring lawyers.
After receiving her degree, Meredith clerked for the Honorable Adlai S. Hardin, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, from 2005 to 2006.
To learn more about Meredith, please visit her profile here:
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/meredith-a-lahaie.html
Career
The Deal, Top Women Dealmakers – Restructuring (2021)
Euromoney Expert Guides: Rising Stars (2020) United States – Restructuring and insolvency (2020)
Euromoney, Americas Rising Stars (2019)
Turnarounds & Workouts – “Outstanding Young Bankruptcy Lawyer,” (2017)
Global Restructuring Review – “40 Under 40—World’s Leading Young Restructuring Lawyers,” (2016)
Memberships
Bar of New York
Education
B.A., Tufts University, magna cum laude (2002); J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law (2005)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization