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Overview
Natasha is a finance and restructuring attorney who advises various clients on a wide range of finance, insolvency, and restructuring matters.
Natasha advises a variety of clients on a wide range of corporate finance and restructuring matters, including syndicated and bilateral financings, structured finance, private debt, private placements, corporate trust, defaults and workouts, out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy disputes and merchant card processing matters.
Education & Admissions
University of Memphis (J.D.),
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Problems in Bankruptcy
- American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence
- Honorable David S. Kennedy Bankruptcy Achievement Award
Vanderbilt University (B.S.)
Admissions
- Minnesota
- Tennessee
- U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Clerkships
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota, United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit, Honorable Robert J. Kressel, 2015-2016
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota, Honorable Michael E. Ridgway, 2013-2015
Experience
Representative Experience
Syndicated and Bilateral Financings
- Represent bank in various syndicated credit facilities, including expedited legal reviews
- Represent lenders and borrowers in various cross-border financings
- Represented administrative agent in renewal amendment of $225,000,000 syndicated credit facility
- Represented administrative agent in $10,600,000 credit facility
- Represented borrower in $2,800,000,000 syndicated revolving credit facility
- Represented borrower in $1,200,000,000 senior unsecured delayed-draw term loan facility
- Represented borrower in $100,000,000 revolving credit facility
- Represented borrower in $30,000,000 revolving credit facility
Private Placements
- Represented seller of $150,000,000 senior notes
- Represented seller of $375,000,000 senior notes
- Represented seller of $175,000,000 senior unsecured notes
- Represented seller of $230,000,000 senior unsecured notes
- Represented issuer of $100,000,000 senior secured notes
Bankruptcy and Out-of-Court Restructurings
- Advised secured lender in commercial loan workouts of distressed debt
- Advised landlords, equipment lessors, and vendors in complex Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 commercial bankruptcy cases, involving plan confirmation, claim, automatic stay, and contract/lease rejection and assumption matters
- Advised various parties in adversary proceedings involving preferential transfers, lien priority disputes, and non-dischargeability actions
- Represented purchaser in $26,000,000 11 U.S.C. § 363 sale
Structured Finance
- Advised sellers in various structured finance transactions requiring bankruptcy legal opinions such as true sale, non-consolidation, and authority to file opinions
Corporate Trust and Agency
- Advise collateral agents, administrative agents, intercreditor agents, and paying agents in various project finance matters
- Advised trustee in corporate debt transaction of $600,000,000 senior notes
- Advised trustee in note redemption
- Advised trustee in bond defaults
Card Processing Transactions
- Advise merchant card processor in card processing transactions
News & Resources
News & Press Mentions
December 21, 2018
Legal Writings
- CHAPTER 21, The Basics of Representing Creditors in Bankruptcy Cases, Debtor-Creditor Handbook with eFormbook, 12th Edition (Rev.2024), Minnesota CLE
- Bankruptcy Bulletin, Minnesota State Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section
Select Presentations
- “2018 Case Law Update,” Minnesota CLE, 2018 Bankruptcy Institute (October 2018)
- “Recent Bankruptcy Supreme Court Cases: What You Need To Know,” Minnesota State Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section (September 2017)
- “Mock Hearings – Examples of What to Do and Not to Do in Trial,” Minnesota CLE 2014 Bankruptcy Institute (October 2014)
Industries & Practices
Securities & Financial Services Litigation & Enforcement
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- Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
- Capital Markets
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Trust Services
- Lending Transactions
- Mortgage Banking
- Securities & Financial Services Litigation & Enforcement
- Securitization
