Kaila M. Zaharis, Associate, Financial Restructuring

Kaila M. Zaharis

Associate

Areas of Focus

Kaila M. Zaharis, Associate, Financial Restructuring

Kaila M. Zaharis

Associate

kzaharis@akingump.com

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  • Advises clients on financial restructuring and bankruptcy matters.

Kaila is an associate in the firm’s financial restructuring practice. She advises debtors, creditors and other stakeholders in chapter 11 proceedings and complex restructuring transactions.

Before joining the firm, Kaila was a legal intern for the Boston Celtics. Prior to that, she was a paralegal for a litigation firm in New York and a judicial intern for the Honorable Matthew Hughes of the Suffolk County Family Court.

Kaila earned her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she was the managing editor of the Review of Banking and Finance Law.  During law school, Kaila was the vice president of Professional Development Business Law Society and a member of the Women’s Law Association and Sports Law Student Association. Kaila earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Loyola University.

Representative Work
  • SVB: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 case of SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, involving more than $3.4 billion in liabilities.
  • Purdue Pharma: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, the privately held pharmaceutical company and maker of OxyContin, involving over a trillion dollars of asserted claims.
  • Nanostring Technologies: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 cases of NanoString Technologies, a publicly held biotechnology company, involving over $280 million in liabilities.
  • Revlon: Counsel to an ad hoc group of secured term loan lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Revlon and its affiliates, a personal care and cosmetics company that sells its products in approximately 150 countries, involving $3.5 billion in liabilities.
  • 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)
  • Mallinckrodt: Counsel to the Official Committee of Opioid Related Claimants in the chapter 11 cases of Mallinckrodt and its affiliates, an American-Irish pharmaceuticals company, involving hundreds of billions of dollars of asserted claims. Restructuring of the Year (The Deal)

Education
  • J.D., Boston University School of Law, 2021

  • Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Loyola University of Maryland, magna cum laude, 2017

Bar Admissions
  • New York

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