Amanda Darwin represents indenture trustees, issuers and bondholders in structured financing arrangements and corporate and municipal debt. She focuses her practice on financial restructuring, liquidations and redemptions to assist fiduciaries in maximizing recoveries for stakeholders.
I practice in banking and finance, focusing on financial institutions acting as fiduciaries in the capital markets. My experience includes corporate debt, municipal debt and complex structured financing arrangements, including CDO, CLO, ABS, RMBS and hedge transactions.
In the area of distressed corporate and municipal debt, I have represented indenture trustees, administrative agents and bondholders in some of the largest bankruptcy cases of the last 20 years, actively participating on creditors committees and ad hoc committees of secured creditors.
In the area of structured defaults, I represent indenture trustees and hedge counterparties in the wind-down of complex financing arrangements, whether through redemption or liquidation, to maximize recoveries for noteholders.
In the area of mortgage-backed securities, I assist trustees in managing risk by offering a broad range of services to monitor claims and litigation and to respond to civil and governmental subpoenas.
I also actively participate in firm management as one of its Loss Prevention partners. I am also active in the firm’s diversity initiative and its pro bono practice.
As the threat COVID-19 continues to paralyzes our communities and add uncertainty to the economic outlook, we return to the fundamentals of the health and safety of our family and friends. As corporate revenues and the markets remain volatile in these difficult times, I am focused on helping clients navigate through this changed environment, while mitigating the risks that these challenging conditions bring.
Have counseled and advised indenture trustees in over 75 bankruptcy cases acting on behalf of holders of both unsecured and secured indebtedness, including in the largest bankruptcy cases filed in the United States.
The Deal | July 15, 2021
In two separate articles, the publication highlighted the firm for advising American International Group, Inc. in the pending sale of a $5.1 billion affordable housing portfolio to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. Washington, DC Community Development Finance partner Liz Young is noted in one of the stories for leading the NP deal team.
In addition to Liz, the NP team includes Affordable Housing & Real Estate partner Dara Histed, Project Finance & Public Finance partner Carla Young, Community Development Finance senior counsel Jeff Lesk, and Corporate partner John Partigan, all of Washington, DC; Global Finance partner Amanda Darwin, Affordable Housing & Real Estate associates Julie Stande and Ali Walendziak, and Community Development Finance associate Nury Aguasvivas, all of Boston; Affordable Housing & Real Estate associate Emily Schwebke and Project Finance & Public Finance resident attorney Jacalyn Smith, both of Chicago; Manchester Affordable Housing & Real Estate associate Talia Burghard; Long Island Affordable Housing & Real Estate paralegal Lori Esposito; and Los Angeles Corporate paralegal Mina Gonzaque-Taylor.
Reuters Legal | August 11, 2020
This article, covering the Second Circuit’s rejection of Lehman Brothers’ effort to claw back $1 billion, mentions NP for the work of Global Finance partner Amanda Darwin (Boston), and Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy partner Rick Pedone (Boston) and counsel Chris Desiderio (New York) in representing the noteholders.
Law360 | August 11, 2020
This article, covering the Second Circuit’s rejection of Lehman Brothers’ effort to claw back $1 billion, mentions NP for the work of Global Finance partner Amanda Darwin (Boston), and Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy partner Rick Pedone (Boston) and counsel Chris Desiderio (New York) in representing the noteholders.
Boston University School of Law, J.D.
Duke University, B.A., cum laude
Massachusetts
New York
Tennessee
Amanda was selected, through a peer-review survey, for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 in the field of Banking and Finance Law. Amanda has been listed in Best Lawyers since 2019.
Amanda has received an AV Preeminent® Peer Review RatingTM from Martindale Hubbell®, the highest possible rating for ethics and legal ability, and is listed in Martindale-Hubbell’s 2012 Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™, a list of women attorneys who have achieved this rating. She was also ranked first place on the list of the most active lawyers to bondholders of bankrupt companies by The Deal in December 2005.