Margot B. Schonholtz Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8258 F 212-728-9258

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Margot B. Schonholtz is a partner in the Business Reorganization and Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Ms. Schonholtz has more than 30 years of experience representing leading institutional creditors, agents to syndicated lending groups, large lender groups, official and unofficial creditors' committees and commercial lenders in out-of-court debt restructurings, loan workouts, asset sale transactions, and bankruptcy matters. She has represented lenders in state and federal court proceedings, including actions for enforcement and foreclosure upon collateral, insurance coverage disputes and lender liability, and aiding and abetting fraud litigations. She is known for her ability to find creative solutions for difficult credits and to harmonize diverse views held by lenders within a syndicate.

Ms. Schonholtz handles all aspects of bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigation, prepares and negotiates complex corporate documents, and organizes and manages large lender syndicates. She has particular knowledge of the structured products, financial services, merchant energy, retail, cable and broadcast, telecommunications, manufacturing, mining, and health care industries. She has led several engagements on behalf of financial institution clients involving distressed structured products (including SIVs, CDOs, market value swaps, and repurchase agreements).

Ms. Schonholtz’s representative clients include Bank of America, Angelo Gordon, and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Ms. Schonholtz has been recognized as a leading practitioner in Chambers Global since 2004 and Chambers USA since its inception in 2003. She has also been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2006 and in the Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, Best of the US Inc. and New York Magazine’s "The New York Area’s Best Lawyers."

Prior to joining Willkie in 2010, Ms. Schonholtz was a partner and Co-Chair of the Business Reorganization and Creditors' Rights practice group of Kaye Scholer LLP.

Ms. Schonholtz has served a critical role as lead counsel to major financial institutions in many complex Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Her recent representative matters include:

• Extended Stay Hotels (counsel for Bank of America and Merrill Lynch)
  
  
• Archstone (counsel to Bank of America)
  
  
• Fairpoint Communications (counsel for the administrative agent for prepetition and postpetition secured lenders)
  
  
• Lyondell Chemical Company (counsel for the largest prepetition secured creditor)
  
  
• SemGroup (counsel for the administrative agent for prepetition and postpetition secured lenders)
  
  
• Lehman (counsel for a co-lender and co-investor in a major real estate development company)
  
  
• American Home Mortgage (counsel for the administrative agent for prepetition second lenders)