Margot Schonholtz

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Margot heads Linklaters' U.S. restructuring & insolvency practice and is a widely acknowledged market-leading restructuring and bankruptcy lawyer.

Margot advises on all aspects of bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigation. She also prepares and negotiates complex corporate documents and organizes and manages large lender syndicates. She has particular knowledge of structured products, financial services, energy, online marketing, retail, cable and broadcast, telecommunications, manufacturing, mining and health care industries. She has considerable experience representing financial institutions in cases involving oil and gas, merchant and midstream energy, coal, chemical and solar energy businesses. Margot has served a critical role as lead counsel to major financial institutions in many complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings.

Margot has been recognized as a leading practitioner in Chambers Global since 2004 and Chambers USA since its inception in 2003. She is ranked in Euromoney’s 2022 Women in Business Law Expert Guide under Restructuring and Insolvency, which recognizes individuals considered by peers and clients to be the best in their respective fields in the legal industry. Margot has also been listed in Expert Guides, Best Lawyers in America since 2006, the Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, and New York Magazine’s “The New York Area’s Best Lawyers.” In 2013, she was named “Best in Insolvency & Restructuring” at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards.