Sarah Schultz > Akin > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Akin Offices
2300 N. Field Street
Suite 1800
Dallas, TX 75201-2481
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United States
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Sarah Schultz
Work Department
Partner; Financial Restructuring
Position
Sarah Schultz handles large, complex restructuring cases and out-of-court corporate reorganizations for public and private companies, as well as for alternative investment funds. She routinely handles representations for both debtors and creditors and works across a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, shipping, retail and health care.
Sarah is dedicated to understanding the intricacies of her clients’ businesses and tailors legal strategy to meet those commercial objectives. Sarah regularly represents debtors, official and unofficial committees of creditors, secured lender groups, debtor-in-possession lenders and acquirers of assets.
Recent engagements include advising an international and domestic maritime transportation services company in its chapter 11 case; the official committee of unsecured creditors to a health care company; and an oil and gas exploration company in its chapter 11 case.
To learn more about Ms. Schultz, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/sarah-link-schultz.html
Career
For many years, Sarah has been recognized as a leading lawyer by various industry publications/directories, including Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, Texas Monthly and Turnarounds & Workouts.
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