Emily Steele is a partner in the firm's Finance practice. She focuses her
practice on the representation of secured and unsecured creditors in restructuring
and insolvency matters. Emily represents clients in a variety of contexts in
bankruptcy proceedings, including litigation involving the automatic stay, adequate
protection, use of cash collateral, assumptions and rejections of executory
contracts and unexpired leases, negotiation of trade agreements for critical vendor
treatment, chapter 11 plan confirmation and interpretation, section 363 asset sales,
and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. Emily also advises
creditors as to their rights and remedies both in and out of court. As a member of
the firm's finance practice group, Emily also works on corporate finance,
commercial lending, private equity and mezzanine financing transactions. Emily
regularly represents institutional investors, banks, private equity sponsors, and
other public and private corporations as lenders or borrowers in a broad range of
middle market debt finance transactions, as well as loan workouts, modifications,
restructurings and debtor-in-possession financings.
