Richard Minott’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring, bankruptcy and related litigation.

He represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, ad hoc groups, counterparties, and other interested parties, in a wide range of in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Richard has a broad range of industry experience, including aviation, energy, retail, digital assets, and financial services, and regularly advises clients on domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.

Richard joined the firm in 2021.

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Notable Experience

  • Sofidel America Corp. as stalking horse bidder and purchaser of substantially all the assets of Royal Paper in its Chapter 11 proceedings.

  • An ad hoc cross-holder group of secured bondholders of Azul S.A. (Azul), comprised of more than 20 leading financial institutions and some of the largest U.S.-based hedge funds, in the in-court Chapter 11 prearranged capital solution and restructuring of Azul, which includes the equitization of all of the first-lien and second-lien debt of the company, approximately $1.6 billion in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing and a backstopped equity rights offering of $650 million.

  • Genesis Global Capital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, in its Chapter 11 restructuring proceeding and related corporate governance, regulatory, and investigative matters, including an investigation overseen by the Board’s Special Committee.

  • LATAM Airlines Group and its affiliates in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and the United States in the voluntary reorganization and restructuring of their debt under Chapter 11 protection in the United States.

  • The largest secured creditor in the Chapter 11 case of Kabbage, Inc. d/b/a KServicing, issuer of over $7 billion of loans in connection with the Paycheck Protection Program.

  • HSBC Bank and related entities in defending multibillion dollar actions related to the Madoff Ponzi scheme and the bankruptcy of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.

  • Alto Maipo SpA, a hydroelectric project in Chile, in its pre-arranged Chapter 11 proceedings in Delaware.

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Selected Activities

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Senior Development Editor, Northwestern University Law Review, Northwestern University School of Law

President, Student Bar Association, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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