Sara Coelho is a partner in the Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practice and also spends some of her time working with the Finance practice on private credit, direct lending and specialty finance transactions.

Her FR&I practice focuses on restructuring and debtor-creditor rights. She represents debtors, creditors and creditor groups, acquirers, equity owners and other investors in a wide range of insolvency matters, including risk mitigation and planning, acquisitions of distressed or reorganized companies, liability management transactions, chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvencies, resolution planning, and other matters.

Her Finance experience includes acting for creditors and agents on a variety of private credit, direct lending and special situation financings, for both acquisition, capital refinancing and liquidity management-related purposes, across a range of sectors, as well as DIP financings and exit financings.

• PosiGen: Represent Brookfield on new debt financing facility for residential solar provider to support future asset growth and fuel nationwide expansion
• ClearPath Energy: Represent Brookfield on financing a portfolio of community solar projects developed by ClearPath, which will allow expansion of ClearPath’s existing pipeline and acceleration of late-stage development
• Greenidge Generation: Represent Greenidge, a bitcoin mining and power generation company, in the restructuring of its debt and business, including the transfer of a significant portion of its mining rigs to NYDIG, its equipment lender, in exchange for significant debt reduction, a new financing agreement, and 5-year hosting arrangements with NYDIG
• Weatherford International PLC: Represented Citibank N.A. as agent on a DIP loan for Weatherford, a global provider of energy services
• Inversora Eléctrica de Buenos Aires S.A.: Represented chapter 15 debtor in connection with its US insolvency proceeding, implemented in parallel with Acuerdo Preventivo Extrajudicial (APE) proceeding in Argentina
• Newmont Goldcorp: Represented ad hoc group of noteholders in consent solicitation and indenture amendment
• PG&E: Represented ad hoc group of creditors of power purchase agreement counterparty to PG&E in PG&E chapter 11 case
• Westinghouse Electric Company: Represented nuclear power plant construction contract counterparties in Westinghouse chapter 11 cases
• Puerto Rico: Represented major creditor in first phase of Puerto Rico restructuring, including first phase of PREPA restructuring
• Homer City: Represented GE Capital as plan sponsor in chapter 11 case of Homer City, a power plant in Pennsylvania, and in related asset purchase transactions
• Toys “R” Us: Represented Bank of America N.A. as administrative and collateral agent under a secured credit facility totaling over $1 billion in Toys “R” Us chapter 11 cases
• Acosta: Represented Ankura Trust Company as DIP agent in Acosta chapter 11 cases
• Joerns: Represented Ankura Trust Company as agent on prepetition, DIP and exit loans in connection with Joerns chapter 11 cases
• Advise Citibank on various credit and derivatives matters
• Advise Ankura Trust Company as agent on multiple finance transactions
• Stoneway Capital: Represented Stoneway, an indirect owner of Argentine power assets, in its cross-border restructuring
• Southland Royalty Company: Represented private-equity sponsored E&P oil and gas company with interests in over 8,000 wells throughout Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado
• Nuverra Environmental Solutions: Represented oilfield services company and its affiliates in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases
• Fallbrook Technologies: Represented technology development company in its pre-arranged chapter 11 case
• Sears Holding: Represented Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc., an entity spun off from Sears, in Sears chapter 11 cases
• Aleris International: Represented aluminum manufacturing company and affiliates in their chapter 11 cases
• International Bank of Azerbaijan: Represented ad hoc group of bondholders in Chapter 15 bankruptcy case of IBA
• Ditech Holding/Walter Investment: Represented mortgaged-backed securities contract counterparty in chapter 11 cases of both Ditech and Walter