Katharine Scott is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. She advises creditors, ad hoc committees, trustees, companies, boards of directors, financial sponsors, and other stakeholders evaluating strategic transactions. Her practice spans chapter 11 cases, out-of-court corporate restructurings, debt exchanges, distressed investments, liability management transactions, insolvency matters, and other special situations.
She has advised clients across a wide range of industries, including technology, healthcare, aviation, shipping, media, retail, and consumer products. She has counseled many clients in proceedings before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and has experience with both public company reorganizations and sponsor-backed transactions.
Katharine is admitted to practice in New York, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She has been recognized for multiple consecutive years as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star.”
Representative Matters
- Represented an ad hoc group of DIP lenders and term loan lenders in the $1.1 billion new money debtor-in-possession financing and chapter 11 cases of First Brands Group LLC, a global automotive aftermarket parts supplier.
- Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders to RugsUSA in the negotiation and consummation of a $120 million acquisition and equitization transaction.
- Advised an ad hoc group of first lien lenders and noteholders to MultiPlan in the negotiation and consummation of an exchange transaction that extended appx. $4.5 billion of debt maturities by three years.
- Counseled an ad hoc group of term lenders and noteholders to Xplore, Inc. in a $1.7 billion CAD comprehensive recapitalization transaction.
- Represented Shoes For Crews in a sale to a group of its secured lenders through voluntary chapter 11 proceedings and in obtaining approximately $30 million in DIP financing from the secured lenders acquiring the business.*
- Represented Vesta Holdings, LLC and certain of its subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases and obtained 100% of secured lender and general unsecured creditor support on an all asset sale of the business.*
- Represented Revlon, Inc.’s BrandCo Debtors—thirteen entities holding IP for brands including Elizabeth Arden, Almay, Curve, and American Crew—in their chapter 11 cases.*
- Advised amici curiae law professors in their submission to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the Purdue Pharma chapter 11 cases.*
- Represented Vewd Software USA, LLC and affiliates in prepackaged chapter 11 proceedings restructuring over $100 million in debt and securing $45 million in exit financing.*
- Represented PlayMonster LLC in investment transactions with Adams Street Partners and H.I.G. Capital.*
- Counseled LATAM Airlines Group and affiliates in multi-jurisdictional debt reorganization under chapter 11.*
- Represented The McClatchy Company in its chapter 11 restructuring of $1.6 billion in debt.*
- Advised Trident Holding Company, LLC in restructuring approximately $700 million in liabilities.*
- Represented Aurora Commercial Corp. debtors in chapter 11, reducing claims from $343 million to $42,000 and confirming a fully consensual plan.*
- Counseled Toisa Limited in its chapter 11 proceedings involving $1 billion in liabilities and vessel sales exceeding $550 million.*
(Matters noted with an asterisk were completed prior to joining Gibson Dunn.)
Education
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 2018
Dean’s Merit Scholarship; Judicial Extern, Hon. Sean H. Lane, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York - B.A., Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 2013
Provost Honors
Admissions
- New York Bar
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Brooklyn Law School - 2018 Juris Doctor
- University of California, San Diego - 2013 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar