Alex concentrates her practice on restructuring, bankruptcy, and workout matters, representing a diverse range of clients across all phases of restructuring matters. She regularly represents administrative agents and lenders in syndicated and bilateral facilities in both in-court and out-of-court restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financing and exercising remedies under Article 9 of the UCC. Alex’s client roster also includes global healthcare companies, energy companies, other contract counterparties, and liquidating trustees.
Her experience spans a variety of industries, including commercial real estate, healthcare, senior living, retail, and consumer products, providing her with a broad perspective and deep understanding of diverse financial and operational challenges.
Experience
- Representation of one of the largest managed care and health insurance companies in the U.S. as outside commercial bankruptcy counsel in hundreds of commercial bankruptcy filings around the country.
- Representation of administrative agent for secured lenders in connection with workout and restructuring of over $630 million and €173 million credit facilities to an international household products company. Completed out-of-court comprehensive restructuring of the credit facilities, including equity to lenders.
- Representation of a major diversified financial institution as administrative agent under $120 million pre-bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession and exit lending facilities in the bankruptcy case of a national automotive supplier.
- Representation of a major diversified financial institution in the par recovery (at the height of the COVID pandemic) of a loan to a leading global hospitality and tour operator.
- Representation of major diversified financial institution in the workout and restructuring of a $50 letter-of-credit facility to a non-profit skilled nursing facility.
- Representation of a major diversified financial institution as administrative agent under an $85 million debtor-in-possession lending facility in the bankruptcy cases of the owners of a national portfolio of long-term acute care hospitals.
- Representation of a national transportation and logistics company as creditor in numerous complex chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
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The University of Oklahoma College of LawJD
with Highest Honors, Order of the Coif, Assistant Managing Editor, Oklahoma Law Review
2015 -
Indiana UniversityBSBallet with a minor in Spanish
with High Distinction
2011
Board Member, Chicago Network of International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- Panelist, "Senior Living," American Bankruptcy Institute Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop, 2022
- Illinois
- Oklahoma
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Author, Potential Benefits of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy for Retailers Facing Higher Interest Rates and High Inflation, One-Stop Shop, September 9, 2024
- Editor, Strategic Alternatives For and Against Distressed Businesses, Thomson Reuters, 2024 Edition
- Author, More Courts Reject FERC’s Jurisdictional Claims in Battle Over Rejection of Filed-Rate Contracts in Bankruptcy, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 19, 2022
- Author, Delaware Bankruptcy Court Enforces Stay, Compels Certain CMS Payments, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 12, 2019
- Author, Bankruptcy and Trademark Licenses — Are Yours Safe?, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, October 2, 2018