Lauren C. Doyle

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Doyle regularly represents companies, creditors’ committees, lenders and other strategic parties in chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings in the US and globally. She has extensive experience representing clients across the capital structure, negotiating restructuring plans, sales, DIP financings, Exit Financing, and cross-border transactions. Her engagements have ranged across a wide array of industries, including energy, telecom, satellite, shipping, chemicals, paper, aviation, financial services, automotive, consumer goods and retail.

Her recent notable chapter 11 and chapter 15 engagements include: Reverse Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. (counsel to Nomura Securities as prepetition secured lender); Talen Energy (counsel to the official committee of unsecured creditors);  GTT Communication (counsel ad hoc group of secured lenders); Guitar Center Inc. (counsel to the debtors); OneWeb Global Ltd. (counsel to the debtors); Furie Alaska (counsel to prepetition and DIP lender) Stearns Lending (counsel to Nomura Securities as DIP and Exit lender); Usina de Acucar Santa Terezinha (counsel to company and chapter 15 debtors); Preferred Sands (counsel to secured lenders); Aegean Petroleum (counsel to Mercuria as prepetition and DIP  lender in its credit bid for the assets); QGOG Constellation S.A. (counsel to ad hoc committee of 2024 bondholders); M&G Chemicals (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors); Seadrill Partners (counsel to Agent and steering committee of senior secured lenders); Ultra Petroleum (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured creditors); Samson Resources (counsel to sponsor); PT Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk (BLT) (counsel to agent and syndicate of lenders); Molycorp Inc. (counsel to prepetition and DIP lender); Seacastle Ships (counsel to agent and secured lender); Overseas Shipholding Group (counsel to agent for revolving credit facility lenders); Cengage Learning, Inc. (counsel to ad hoc committee of secured lenders); Southern Air Holdings, Inc. (counsel to DIP agent); ATP, Inc. (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors); NewPage Corporation (counsel to debtors); Tubo de Pastejè (counsel to debtors); Calpine Corporation (counsel to indenture trustee); Ambac Financial Group (counsel to debtors); Extended Stay (counsel to agent); CCS Medical, Inc. (counsel to debtors); Value City Department Stores (counsel to debtors); Ampex Corporation (counsel to debtors); Werner Ladder (counsel to debtors); Dana Automotive (counsel to acquiror); Adelphia Communications Corporation (counsel to debtors); Dan River, LLC (counsel to sponsor); United Site Services, Inc. (counsel to company).

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Doyle has been a featured panelist at national conferences on topics involving distressed situations and is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee.  Ms. Doyle has been recognized by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers of 2023, and by Legal Media Group's 2022 Expert Guides as one of the Top Women in Business Law in the area of Restructuring & Insolvency. She has been on Benchmark Litigation’s “40 under 40 Hot List” for the last 3 years and recognized on the shortlist for Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Awards for “Best in Restructuring & Insolvency”.  In 2019, Ms. Doyle was named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer by Turnarounds & Workouts.

Ms. Doyle recently co-authored an article for the 2019/20 edition of the International Insolvency & Restructuring Report, titled “Cross-border restructuring in the US: Chapter 15 approval of third-party releases granted in foreign proceedings.”

In 2018, Ms. Doyle was named to The American Lawyer’s Young Lawyer Editorial Board.

In 2013, she was selected by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges to be part of their Next Generation program.