Melissa Y. Boey

• Counsel to the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds in numerous coal operator bankruptcies and related litigation, including Peabody Energy Corporation (E.D. Mo.), Arch Coal, Inc. (E.D. Mo.), Walter Energy Company (N.D. Ala.) and Patriot Coal Company (E.D. Va.)
• Counsel to an ad hoc group of creditors of OAS, S.A., in connection with its Brazilian restructuring and attendant Chapter 15 U.S. proceeding (S.D.N.Y.)
• Counsel to the indenture trustee for the Senior Secured Bonds of Avaya, Inc. in connection with the Chapter 11 restructuring (S.D.N.Y.) of this global provider of contact center, unified communicating and networking products and services.
• Counsel to the joint official liquidators of two Cayman Islands-based funds in connection with Chapter 15 proceedings as well as litigation against managers of funds brought by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Counsel to multiple buyers in connection with the acquisition of various solar projects and related assets through SunEdison, Inc.’s bankruptcy sales (D. Del.)
• Counsel to international bondholders in connection with a Japanese civil rehabilitation process, including registering claims, performing diligence, and asserting and protecting bondholder rights.

Melissa previously served on the Southern California Law Review and as the first editor-in-chief of the Business Law Advisor, a student-run publication of advisory articles relevant to the intersection of business and law. More recently, she has co-authored two articles in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal discussing the parallels between German insolvency legislation and US law.