Samuel Khalil

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Samuel A. Khalil is a partner in the New York office of Milbank and co-head of the firm’s Financial Restructuring Group.

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Khalil has worked on many of the largest, most complex and precedent-setting corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. His engagements have ranged across a wide array of industries, including energy, telecommunications, shipping, chemicals, airline, financial services, automotive, pharmaceuticals, satellite, retail and real estate.

Mr. Khalil ‘s representations have included, among others: Envision Healthcare Corp. (counsel to largest secured creditor); Ebix (counsel to Zinnia, an Eldridge company, in connection with the acquisition of Ebix’s life and annuity assets); J.Crew Group, Inc. (counsel to certain financial institutions holding secured term loans and senior secured notes); Incora/Wesco (counsel to debtor); Frontier Communications Corp. (counsel to ad hoc unsecured noteholders); Elevate Textiles (counsel to debtor); Pacific Gas & Electric (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors); Yak Access (counsel to debtor); Voyager Aviation (counsel to debtor); Windstream Holdings, Inc. (ad hoc committee of secured noteholders); American Commercial Lines (counsel to debtor); Natural Resource Partners (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured creditors); Transworld Systems (counsel to debtor); Vanguard Natural Resources (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders); W&T Offshore (counsel to certain holders of debt in connection with out-of-court restructuring); Samson Resources (counsel to KKR as sponsor); Penn Virginia (counsel to unofficial committee of bondholders); Energy XXI (counsel to an ad hoc committee of second lien noteholders); Ultra Petroleum (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured creditors); Midstates Petroleum (counsel to exchanging noteholders); Lyondell Chemical Company (counsel to an ad hoc committee of senior secured lenders); Momentive Performance Materials (counsel to an ad hoc group of second lien debtholders).

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Khalil is recognized by Chambers, IFLR1000 and Legal 500. He is currently ranked by Chambers USA for NY Bankruptcy/Restructuring, where clients have described him as “very accessible, creative in his approach and thoughtful." In 2024, Legal 500 named Mr. Khalil a Leading Lawyer after being named a Next Generation Partner from 2017-2023. In 2015, Mr. Khalil was named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer by Turnarounds & Workouts. He is also a co-author of the chapter on “Trends in DIP Financing in the Aftermath of the Credit Crisis of 2008-2009” in Collier Guide to Chapter 11 (2010).

Mr. Khalil received his J.D., cum laude, from Hofstra University, where he served as an associate editor of the Hofstra Law Review.

Additional Details
Education
  • Hofstra Law, J.D.
  • Hofstra University, B.A.
Admissions
  • New York
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • US District Court for the Southern District of New York