Melissa Coakley

MELISSA COAKLEY serves as the leader of Sidley’s European restructuring team. She advises in respect of a broad range of stress- or distress-adjacent situations, including recapitalizations, restructurings, distressed M&A, and all connected issues, including emergency capital injections, liability management exercises, technical insolvency aspects, and contentious scenarios.

Melissa’s commercialism, high level of technical knowledge and strategic thinking has seen her acting across sectors (including infrastructure, retail, transport, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services, and commodities), across geographies, engaging with differing regulatory environments and legal systems (including five years spent on secondment in the Middle East), and for a wide variety of stakeholders: corporate borrowers, funds, banks, insolvency officeholders, governments, private equity sponsors, and material trade creditors.