Amy A. Zuccarello

Practice Areas

Finance

Corporate

Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Real Estate Finance

Real Estate Workouts

Litigation

Real Estate, Alternative & Offshore Investment Funds

Aviation

Financial Services

Sports

Career

Amy, a member of the firm's management committee, represents borrower and creditor clients in all aspects of distressed transactions, complex bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. Amy’s practice includes a focus in the area of corporate trust, and she has experience representing indenture trustees, agents, collateral trustees, bondholders, lenders and investors in a wide range of complex asset-backed and unsecured financings and corporate debt restructurings, both inside and outside of Chapter 11. Amy has provided advice to clients across numerous industries, including retail, transportation, senior housing and hospital, recreation, real estate, insurance, clean and alternative energy, municipal distress, mining, military housing, financial services, medical devices and intellectual property.

Equally comfortable as both a bankruptcy lawyer and a transactional lawyer, Amy has specialized experience negotiating aircraft sales and leases, public and private asset securitizations, real estate project financings and other structured transactions. Amy regularly advises secured lenders on perfection and remedial issues under the UCC and provides non-consolidation opinions, true lease opinions and true sale opinions on behalf of bankruptcy-remote, special purpose entities. Amy is also a member of the firm's Hiring Committee and Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee.

Professional Memberships

American Bankruptcy Institute, Northeast Conference Advisory Board

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), 2021 Conference Education Committee

United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, Local Rules Committee

American Bar Association

Massachusetts Bar Association

International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation

Work Highlights

Chapter 11 and Related Work

Lead Counsel in representation of the First Lien Agent with respect to $900 million in secured loans in connection with the Chapter 11 filings of issuer Covia Holdings Corporation, including representation of Agent under exit facility

Representation of prepetition secured lender, DIP Lender and stalking horse bidder Digiatech, LLC, in section 363 purchase of substantially all assets of Knotel Inc. and its debtor subsidiaries out of chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

Representation of Escalante Golf and its designated affiliates, in the successful purchase of assets of Chapter 11 debtors The International Golf Club, Arklow Limited Partnership and Wealyn, LLC consummated under a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation of the three debtor entities

Represented the Term Loan Administrative Agent and Collateral Trustee with respect to nearly $1 billion in secured loans in connection with the Chapter 11 filings of issuer Foresight Energy, certain of its affiliates and its parent company, Murray Energy Corporation

Represented Administrative Agent with respect to $300 million in unsecured loans and as a member of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with Chapter 11 filings of issuer Nine West Holdings, et al.

Represented the successful purchaser of patent and intellectual property portfolio of drone company, Lily Robotics,in a Section 363 sale

Represented the bond trustee with respect to certain municipal development revenue bonds in connection with the Chapter 11 filing of Hebrew Hospital Senior Housing

Representation of Indenture Trustee with respect to public debt in the Chapter 15 case of Mexican glassmaker, Vitro SAB de CV, including representation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Represented a national banking association in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, Owner Trustee, and Collateral Trustee with respect to the Chapter 11 proceedings of American Airlines

Represented a national banking association in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, Owner Trustee, and Collateral Trustee with respect to the Chapter 11 proceedings of General Motors

Represented secured lender in Chapter 11 proceedings of sports complex owner and operator, Event Partners and Amesbury Sports Park and negotiated secured lender property purchase transaction

Represented national banking association in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, Owner Trustee, and Collateral Trustee with respect to the Chapter 11 proceedings of Northwest Airlines (now Delta Air Lines) and United Airlines; lead transactional counsel in restructuring of debt and leases of more than 400 aircraft transactions financed with a combination of public and privately-held debt

Out-of-Court Workout/Restructuring

Represented First Lien Agent and Collateral Trustee in restructuring of $20 million in defaulted loans of cannabis company borrower

Represented a real estate and energy company group in the workout of more than $300 million in defaulted loans secured by personal guarantees

Represented a national insurance company with respect to the forbearance and ultimate workout of a $17 million defaulted senior loan

Corporate Trust, Finance and Real Estate Work

Serves as regular counsel to institutional and corporate trustees in equipment finance transactions involving “healthy side” aircraft portfolios leased to Federal Express, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and others

Represented lender in financing of 15-acre mixed-use project on the Allston-Brighton border

Represented first lien agent and collateral agent in $2 billion securitization transaction

Represented national insurance company in disposition of railcar portfolio

Represented national insurance company in sale of 757 aircraft portfolio to United Airlines

Education