Sandra E. Mayerson Partner

Sandra Mayerson has extensive experience in both debtor and creditor matters, and has represented creditors’ and bondholders’ committees, debtors in Chapter 11, banks and other secured creditors, unsecured creditors, investors in distressed situations and claims traders. Sandra’s background spans both bankruptcy and securities law and is informed by years of experience in private practice as well as involvement with public policy formation. She is often cited in legal opinions for her work in the area of fraudulent conveyances.
Sandra served as examiner in Interco’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy matters about which she wrote a report on fraudulent conveyance law. She also did groundbreaking work in the field of customer claims in security firm insolvencies as part of a New York-based financial services company’s Chapter 11. 

In 2001 Sandra was honored by The National Law Journal as one of the Top 50 Women Litigators in the United States and hailed by Working Woman magazine as one of the five Best in Bankruptcy in the country. Sandra is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for every issue of New York Super Lawyers since its inception. Her work with US clients in Latin America was noted in the 2010 edition of LatinLawyer 250. She also appears in The Best Lawyers in America 2012.

Sandra has completed the mediation training course offered by the Southern District of New York and has served as an arbitrator.

She has written and lectured internationally on bankruptcy topics, particularly on fraudulent conveyance law, trading claims, cross-border insolvencies and prepackaged bankruptcy plans. Sandra is the author of “The Zone of Insolvency: A Trap for the Unwary,” published in Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Newsletter in 2008 and Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes in December 2007, “Current Developments in Prepackaged Bankruptcy Plans,” published in Practising Law Inst., 21st Annual Current Developments in Bankruptcy and Reorganization (Vol. 1, 1999) and several articles published in The National Law Journal. Additionally she has been a bankruptcy columnist for The National Law Journal and a guest commentator on bankruptcy issues for CNN, NBC and FOX News.

In 2008 Sandra was a panelist and moderator at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges for a program entitled “You Are Entering the Zone…the Delaware Zone” and reprised the same panel at the ABA Autumn Business Section Meeting. She was a panelist and moderator at the ABA Spring Business Section Meeting in 2007 for the program “When Statutes Collide: BAPCA, Sarbanes Oxley and Reg FD”; keynote luncheon speaker at the program “Some Leaders are Born Women” at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in 2008, and spoke on executory contracts at the PLI “Understanding the Basics of Bankruptcy and Reorganization” program in 2007 and 2008. Sandra is frequently quoted in publications on bankruptcy and reorganization matters including, most recently, The New York Times.

Representative Experience

• Defending a US$500 million fraudulent conveyance claim in connection with a failed leveraged buyout and obtaining a favorable settlement.
• Serving as special counsel to several boards of directors of distressed companies.
• Representing a customer group in a financial services company’s insolvency, which successfully challenged the right of the debtor to file Chapter 11.
• Representing a startup research and development company in the solar energy field in a successful out-of-court restructuring of PIPE debt.
• Representing a Tier One auto parts manufacturer as debtor in Chapter 11.