Skip to Content

Michelle McMahon is a partner in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights department. She focuses her practice on representing clients in complex workouts,  restructurings and Chapter 7, 11, and 15 bankruptcies and related litigation. Her clients include secured and unsecured lenders, special servicers of securitized commercial mortgages, indenture trustees, creditors’ committees, patient care ombudsman, unsecured creditors, landlords, investors, and debtors.

Michelle works with her clients to create strategies tailored to meet their business needs and objectives. Her experience includes preparing and prosecuting pleadings and motions, negotiating out-of-court settlements and appearing at adversarial hearings related to first-day motions, DIP financings, automatic stays, asset sales, disclosure statements, reorganization plans, assumptions and assignments of leases and contracts, and objections to claims. She has also defended numerous clients in avoidance actions, and she advises buyers in acquisitions of distressed assets and other transactions involving troubled companies.

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights International Bankruptcy Banking and Financial Services Commercial Foreclosures/ Total Debt Restructuring Creditors’ Committees Distressed M & A Secured Creditors’ and Lenders Debtor Representations Loan Workout

Industries

Admissions

  • California
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • New York
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Delaware
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Central District of California
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern District of California
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of California
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern District of New York
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of New York
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of New York
  • S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Western District of New York

Education

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1999
  • B.B.A, Western Michigan University, 1996

Representative Experience

  • In re Cherry Hill Portfolio LLC, Case No. 25-43199 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 2025) (represent lender in single asset real estate bankruptcy case).
  • In re Sysorex Government Services, Inc., Case No. 25-10920 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2025) (represent debtor in possession in Chapter 11 case and sale of the Debtor’s business).
  • Represent creditor and contract counter party in numerous bankruptcy cases of fast food and fast casual restaurants pending in jurisdictions throughout the country.
  • In re New London Pharmacy Inc. and Eleni International Inc., Case No. 25-10107 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2025) (represent debtor in possession in Chapter 11 case).
  • In re Elements UES LLC, Case No. 25-10033 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2025) (represent Subchapter V small business debtor).
  • In re Midwestern Christian Villages, Inc., et als., Case No. 24-42473 (Bankr. E.D.M.O. 2024) (represent Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors).
  • In re Apex North Broad LLC, Case No. 23-16137 (Bankr. D. N.J. 2023) (represented lender in single asset real estate bankruptcy case).
  • Represented purchaser in sale of Debtor’s assets in multiple bankruptcy sale processes.
  • In re Aguila Inc., Case No. 21-11776 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2021) (represented Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors and, after conformation of the Plan, the Plan Administrator).
  • In re Cachet Financial Services v. The Bancorp Bank, et al., Case No. 21-01187 (Bankr. C.D.C.A. 2021 (defend bank in suit alleging RICO, conspiracy and aiding and abetting fraud).
  • In re Hunts Point Enterprises LLC, et. al., Case No. 20-42393 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 2020) (represented Subchapter V small business debtor).
  • In re Advanced Ready Mix Corp., Case No. 19-46274 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 2019) (represented Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors).
  • In re Hobbico, Inc. et al., Case No. 18-10055 (Bankr. D. Del.) (represented Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors).
  • In re Exelco North America, Inc., et al., Case No. 17-12029 (Bankr. D. Del.) (represented secured lender in successfully dismissing Chapter 11 case in favor of pending insolvency proceeding in Belgium).
  • In re Story Building LLC, Case No. 10-16614 (Bankr. C.D. Ca.) (represented special servicer in restructuring approximately $13 million of securitized debt).
  • In re General Growth, Inc., et al., Case No. 09-11977 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) (represented special servicers in restructuring approximately $3.8 billion of securitized debt as part of the largest operating real estate bankruptcy to date).

Professional and Community Activities

Publications

  • “Securitized Loans in Bankruptcy” (section co-author), Mortgage and Asset Backed Securities Litigation Handbook, West® Legalworks (2008).
  • “Whitehall:  A Debtor Cannot Sell What It May Not Own” (co-author), Law360 (October 31, 2008).

News & Insights