Présentation
Ameneh Bordi focuses her practice on complex, high pressure bankruptcy and restructuring representations.
Ameneh has represented creditors in the protection of their interests in the Chapter 11 process through negotiation and litigation. She also served assisted in-house counsel of distressed companies to help navigate one of the most challenging periods in their life cycle and work with personnel and outside advisors to drive an optimal outcome in a sub-optimal situation.
Ameneh is also active in various pro bono matters. She represents an immigrant victim of domestic violence in seeking permanent resident status in the US from the initial application process for deferred action status, through the interview stage, yearly applications for work-permit renewals, and continued attempts to seek approval permanent resident status. She has also served as a volunteer lawyer in housing court and SDNY district court, and has assisted low-income residents of New York in preparing bankruptcy petitions.
While in law school, Ameneh served as a staff editor for Annual Survey of American Law.
Results
- Represented a telecommunications satellite organization and certain of its affiliates in connection with their Chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.*
- Represented an oil industry company and its affiliates, in its Chapter 11 restructuring in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.*
- Represented a multinational full-service sales, marketing, and retail merchandising agency with 30,000 employees, serving 1,200 blue chip companies across the globe, in its prepackaged restructuring of $3 billion of indebtedness. The company Chapter 11 plan was confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware just 15 days after the bankruptcy filing.*
- Represented oil and natural gas exploration, exploitation, acquisition, development and production company in its Chapter 11 restructuring in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The company listed approximately $1.4 billion of funded debt obligations at the time of filing.*
- Represented an ad hoc group of lenders that include the petitioning creditors in the involuntary Chapter 11 case of EB Holdings II, Inc., which is currently pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Las Vegas, Nevada. EB Holdings II, Inc. is the immediate parent of Eco-Bat Technologies, Inc., which together with its various operating subsidiaries is the largest producer and recycler of lead in Europe and the third-largest lead producer in the United States.*
- Represented holders of DRH notes in Ocean Rig’s pending restructuring proceedings in the Cayman Islands and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.*
- Represented an ad hoc committee of senior secured lenders to CGG S.A. and its subsidiaries in connection with a prearranged restructuring through concurrent French sauvegarde, Chapter 15, and Chapter 11 proceedings. CGG is based in France and globally operates a geoscience services and equipment company supporting commercial oil and gas exploration and production. CGG’s prearranged restructuring will address it’s over $2 billion in funded debt obligations, including three tranches of secured loans across its capital structure.*
- Represented leading multinational technology company that specializes in telephony, wireless data communications, customer relationship management software, and networking in their Chapter 11 cases. The company and its debtor-affiliates had more than $6 billion in funded debt obligations as of the commencement of their Chapter 11 cases, with annual revenues in excess of $3 billion.*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Credentials
Education
New York University School of Law, JD, magna cum laude, 2016
Columbia University, BA, magna cum laude, 2010
Admissions
New York
Courts/Agencies
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
Languages
English
Farsi
French
