Melanie Ann Miller
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Melanie Miller focuses on bankruptcy and financial restructuring matters. Her experience extends across a variety of industries, including retail, energy and financial services.
Before joining the firm, Melanie was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert D. Drain in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and before that, a financial restructuring associate at an international law firm.
Melanie received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Florida.
- Sungard: Counsel to Sungard Availability Services and its affiliates, a global operator of colocation data and disaster recovery centers, in their chapter 11 cases involving more than $500 million in liabilities and the sale of substantially all of the company’s assets.
- 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.
- GTT: Counsel to GTT Communications and its affiliates, operator of one of the largest Tier 1 internet networks in the world, in their chapter 11 cases involving $4.5 billion in liabilities. Successful Restructurings of the Year (Turnarounds & Workouts)
- Ozon: Counsel to the ad hoc group of convertible noteholders of the $750 million restructuring of Ozon Holdings, Russia’s largest ecommerce platform.
- TV Azteca: Counsel to an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in the cases of TV Azteca and its affiliates, Mexico’s second-largest mass media company, involving $400 million in debt.
EducationJ.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2017
B.A., University of Florida, summa cum laude, 2014
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2017
B.A., University of Florida, summa cum laude, 2014
ClerkshipsU.S.B.C., Southern District of New York
U.S.B.C., Southern District of New York
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- Co-Chair of Recruitment Committee, UJA NextGen Restructuring
- Member, Tina’s Wish NextGen NYC Board