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.

• 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
• Weatherford International PLC: Represented Citibank N.A. as agent on a DIP loan for Weatherford and its debtor and non-debtor affiliates
• Sears Holding: Represented Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc., an entity spun off from Sears, in Sears chapter 11 cases
• Newmont Goldcorp: Represented ad hoc group of noteholders in consent solicitation and indenture amendment
• Fallbrook Technologies: Represented technology development company in its pre-arranged chapter 11 case
• Nuverra Environmental Solutions: Represented oilfield services company and its affiliates in their prepackaged chapter 11 cases
• 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
• PG&E: Represented ad hoc group of creditors of power purchase agreement counterparty to PG&E in PG&E chapter 11 case
• 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
• Ditech Holding/Walter Investment: Represented mortgaged-backed securities contract counterparty in chapter 11 cases of both Ditech and Walter
• 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
• Westinghouse Electric Company: Represented nuclear power plant construction contract counterparties in Westinghouse chapter 11 cases
• International Bank of Azerbaijan: Represented ad hoc group of bondholders in Chapter 15 bankruptcy case of IBA
• Puerto Rico: Represented major creditor in first phase of Puerto Rico restructuring
• Homer City: Represented institutional investor as plan sponsor in Homer City chapter 11 case and in related asset purchase transactions
• Aleris International: Represented aluminum manufacturing company and affiliates in their chapter 11 cases
• Systemically Important Financial Institution: Represented institution in the drafting and submission of its inaugural resolution plan