Emma Sanzotta
Associate
esanzotta@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Capital
Biography
- 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
- 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.
- Enviva: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Enviva, the world's largest wood-based biomass company, involving over $2 billion in liabilities.
- Mobileum: Counsel to an ad hoc group of crossover lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Mobileum, a leading provider of analytics solutions for the telecommunications industry, involving $625 million in liabilities.
- Yak Access: Counsel to the sponsor and lender in the out-of-court restructuring of Yak Access, the nation’s leading provider of temporary access roads and related services. The company reduced its funded debt obligations by over $500 million and the sponsor and lender funded the majority of a $121 million new money investment, retaining control of the company’s common equity.
- LATAM Airlines: Counsel to a Mexico-based cargo air carrier as a contract counterparty, in connection with issues arising in the chapter 11 cases of LATAM Airlines.
- AMP Capital Investors (US) Limited: Counsel to AMP Capital Investors (US) Limited, a global investment manager, in connection with the provision of a holding company financing to a major crude and petroleum products storage and marine terminal facility.
EducationJ.D., Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, 2020
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, 2020
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
New York
District of Columbia
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.
