Laura is a restructuring lawyer with substantial experience in cross-border insolvency and creditor-side chapter 11 disputes. She regularly represents distressed debt investors, ad hoc creditor groups, and large international companies seeking global insolvency resolutions.
Laura has extensive experience in high-value chapter 11 litigation concerning contested plans of reorganization, section 363 sales, debtor-in-possession financing, and the assumption or rejection of executory contracts, among others. She has represented debtors in highly publicized, landmark chapter 15 cases and helmed cross-firm coordination efforts to design and execute global restructuring strategies involving concurrent insolvency proceedings. She regularly advises international companies on insolvency considerations and litigation risk around joint ventures, long-term operating contracts, and other complex cross-border transactions.
Outside formal bankruptcy proceedings, Laura advises clients on a range of bankruptcy-adjacent matters, including insolvency-related state law disputes. Her thought leadership pieces have focused on constructive fraudulent transfer claims under state and bankruptcy law, and publications of her novel legal theories have garnered national awards.
Laura has worked as a writing consultant for some of the world’s top thinkers in law, economics, and applied statistics. Her consulting clients include national bestselling authors as well as law professors and economists at Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and M.I.T. Short films written, directed, and produced by Laura have won accolades across the United States and in Europe, and most recently she directed a Nobel Laureate in his 2024 Nobel Prize Lecture in Economic Sciences.