Emma Sanzotta
Associate
esanzotta@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Capital
Biography
Licensed to practice in New York only and under the supervision of the partners of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Application for admission to the District of Columbia Bar in process.
- Advises clients on financial restructuring matters.
Emma is an associate in the firm’s financial restructuring practice. She represents debtors, lenders, creditors, landlords and trustees under chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, as well as out-of-court restructurings.
Previously, Emma was an associate in the New York office of an international law firm and was a legal intern at the U.S. Social Security Administration Office of the General Counsel.
She earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she served as a Wormser competition editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board, as pre-moot editor of the Fordham Dispute Resolution Society and as a staff member of the Fordham Urban Law Journal.
Representative Work
- AMP Capital Investors (US) Limited in connection with the provision of a holding company financing to a major crude and petroleum products storage and marine terminal facility.
- The nation’s leading wagyu seedstock producer in chapter 11 cases precipitated by an adverse state court judgment contested on appeal, and which are currently pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
- Platinum Equity in its capacity as sponsor and lender in the out-of-court restructuring of Yak Access, LLC, the nation’s leading provider of temporary access roads and related services, whereby among other things, the company reduced its funded debt obligations by over $500 million and Platinum funded the majority of a $121 million new money investment, retaining control of the company’s common equity.
- Stronghold Digital in an out-of-court restructuring which significantly enhanced liquidity and financial flexibility by removing all material mandatory principal repayments through the middle of 2024 via an amendment of its credit facility, and the exchange of all outstanding note obligations for a newly issued series of convertible preferred stock.
- Aerotransportes Mas De Cargo, a Mexico based cargo air carrier, in connection with issues arising in chapter 11 case of LATAM Airlines Group.
- Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation that was valued at approximately $376 million, and included a registered exchange offer, consent solicitation and simultaneous registered solicitation of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion.
EducationJ.D., Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, 2020
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, 2020
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
Affiliations and Public Service
- Legal Intern, U.S. Social Security Administration Office of the General Counsel, 2018.
Speeches and Publications
- “District Court in Virginia Continues Questioning of Third-Party Releases - At Least in the Absence of Detailed Findings of Necessity,” Lexology, January 25, 2022.
