Leah Lopez
Associate
llopez@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Private Capital
Biography
- Focuses on debtors’ and creditors’ rights and corporate restructurings.
Leah focuses on representing creditors, including official and ad hoc committees, debtors and investors in complex domestic and cross-border restructuring matters. Her experience spans a broad range of industries, including energy, hospitality and transportation.
Prior to joining Akin, Leah was an associate in the New York office of another international law firm’s financial restructuring group.
Leah earned her J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she served as senior articles editor for the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy.
Representative Work
- Rite Aid: Counsel to the Official Committee of Tort Claimants in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Rite Aid Corporation, a Fortune 500 public company and one of America’s largest drugstore chains.
- Yellow Corporation: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Yellow Corporation, an American-based trucking and transportation services company that operated one of the largest less-than-truckload networks in North America, involving over $1.2 billion of liabilities.
- Alex Jones: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, on a pro bono basis, in the chapter 11 case of right-wing media personality Alex Jones, which was commenced following the entry of more than $1.5 billion in state court judgments against Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, as a result of Jones’s defamatory comments regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- Pipeline Health: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Pipeline Health and its affiliates, an independent healthcare network with hospitals in California, Texas, and Illinois, involving more than $603 million in liabilities
- Loyalty Ventures: Counsel to Loyalty Ventures and its affiliates, an operator of customer loyalty programs, in their chapter 11 cases involving over $656 million in liabilities.
EducationJ.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 2019
B.A., Barnard College, 2011
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 2019
B.A., Barnard College, 2011
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
