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Melissa Y. Boey

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Melissa Y. Boey focuses her practice on domestic and cross-border insolvency processes and distressed debt disputes. Melissa advises large financial institutions, noteholder groups, indenture trustees, insurers, secured and unsecured creditors, and other key stakeholders in restructurings both in and out of court. Melissa also represents clients in bankruptcy litigation, bankruptcy appeals, and other commercial disputes.

Melissa worked in Morgan Lewis’s New York office for several years prior to moving to California. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Melissa served as a law clerk to Judge Christopher S. Sontchi in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Defended Hawaiian Telcom, as purchaser of substantially all of the assets of Paniolo Cable Company, in disputed sale litigation against the previous owner, including in the Ninth Circuit
  • Defended Deutsche Bank against 28 USC § 1782 discovery applications, including in the Second Circuit
  • Represented multiple secured creditors in the Central District of California in connection with rights enforcement, claims disputes, and other related issues
  • Represented multiple large financial institutions in fraudulent transfer litigation regarding the application of the Section 546(e) safe harbor and other related issues (Tribune, Sears, and Mallinckrodt)
  • Represented Deutsche Bank in litigation against Lehman Chapter 11 debtors, including in the Second Circuit
  • Represented two money center banks in their capacities as indenture trustee of certain mortgage-backed securities trusts in connection with the Chapter 11 case of Ditech Holding Corporation
  • Represented the Mexican affiliates of Mossi & Ghisolfi International in connection with Chapter 11 case of M&G USA Corp., et al.
  • Represented three former executives of SunEdison, Inc. as claimants in the bankruptcy case and in state and federal court
  • Represented the independent director of one of the victimized investment funds, and the investment advisor to numerous limited partners, in connection with the collapse and liquidation proceedings of Abraaj Holdings and Abraaj Investment Management Limited
  • Represented an ad hoc group of creditors of OAS, S.A., in connection with its Brazilian restructuring and attendant Chapter 15 US proceeding
  • Represented 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
  • Represented multiple buyers in connection with the acquisition of various solar projects and related assets through SunEdison, Inc.’s bankruptcy sales
  • Represented multiple nonprofit organizations in obtaining tax-exemption under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, converting jurisdictions while retaining tax-exempt status, and on related nonprofit governance issues (pro bono)
  • Represented multiple nonprofit organizations in liquidation and dissolution processes (pro bono)
  • University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, 2013, J.D.
  • London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012, LL.B.
  • California
  • New York
  • US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Clerkship to Judge Christopher S. Sontchi of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (2013 - 2014)
  • Judicial Intern to Judge John A. Kronstadt of the US District Court for the Central District of California (2013)

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Palo Alto (2025)

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, New York (2022–2024)