Biography
Catherine V. LoTempio is counsel in Seward & Kissel’s Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group.
She advises a wide range of parties— including lenders, bondholders, creditor committees and committee members, corporate trustees and agents, borrowers, equity holders, and investors— in complex chapter 11 reorganizations, chapter 15 cross-border cases, out‑of‑court restructurings, and structured finance transactions.
Catherine’s current representations span a diverse set of restructuring matters across the country. She is a member of the team representing the unsecured creditors’ committees in the Crosby Marine and Hudson 1701/1706 cases, the plan administrator in the Endo case, the reorganized debtors in the Hooters cases, and the post-confirmation trustees in the At Home and Ultra Safe Nuclear cases, and represents the DIP agent in the Saks and Spirit cases.
Her prior experience includes representing the debtors in the Times Square JV cases; independent managers in the Payless cases and numerous unsecured creditors’ committees, including in the Flipcause, Ultra Safe Nuclear, iM3NY, iSun, CoinCloud, NITROcrete, ABC Carpet, SC SJ Holdings (Fairmont San Jose), Furniture Factory, PQ New York (Le Pain Quotidien), SFP (Papyrus), Suniva, and Gracious Home cases. In addition, Catherine has represented indenture trustees, DIP agents, collateral agents, and committee members in major restructurings such as the Anthology, Village Roadshow, Ligado, At Home, SVB Financial, Pier 1, Mallinckrodt, Sears, Intelsat, McClatchy, Murray Energy, EXCO Resources, Toys “R” Us Property Company I, Ultra Petroleum, Mission Coal and Energy Future Holdings cases, among many others.
Catherine earned her B.A., cum laude, from the College of the Holy Cross and her J.D., cum laude, from Wake Forest University School of Law. Before joining Seward & Kissel, she clerked for the Honorable Burton R. Lifland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Capabilities
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Education
Wake Forest University School of Law
- J.D., 2012
- cum laude
College of the Holy Cross
- B.A., 2009
- cum laude
Bar Admissions
- New York
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Education
Wake Forest University School of Law
- J.D., 2012
- cum laude
College of the Holy Cross
- B.A., 2009
- cum laude
Bar Admissions
- New York