Article 04.08.24
Alana Lyman focuses her practice on insolvency, restructuring and related litigation matters.
Alana has experience assisting in all aspects of complex litigation and bankruptcy proceedings, including discovery, motions, mediation, trial and appeals. She represents debtors and creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, and her practice also includes the representation of foreign liquidators and representatives in chapter 15 cases.
During law school, Alana externed for the Hon. Elizabeth S. Stong in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Hon. William J. Giacomo in the New York State Supreme Court, Westchester County, and also served as a law clerk in various civil litigation firms. Additionally, Alana was an associate editor for the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal.
Representative Experience
- Serves as U.S. counsel to the joint official liquidators of two affiliated Cayman Islands investment funds in their Cayman liquidation proceedings and related chapter 15 proceedings in the United States. (In re IIG Global Trade Finance Fund Ltd., et al.).
- Represented Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited, a global leader in photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions, in connection with the negotiation and implementation of its prepackaged chapter 11 plan to go private and restructure its business through transactions that eliminated more than $120 million of secured debt and generated additional funding from existing secured noteholders of approximately $35 million.
- Represented independent director conducting investigation of claims against affiliates and third parties in Mariner Health Central skilled nursing facility bankruptcy case (In re Mariner Health Central, Inc.).
Professional Highlights
- American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), member
- International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), U.S. Programs Committee Member
- New York City Bar Association (NYCBA), member
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- Blog Posts
- “Is a By-the-Hour Motel a Single Asset Real Estate for Chapter 11 Purposes?” Pillsbury’s Gravel2Gavel, March 25, 2022
- External Publications
- Judicial Concerns in Allowing Late-Upset Bids, ABI Journal, Authors: Dania Slim, Alana Lyman, April 2024
- A 5th Circ. Lesson On Preserving Indemnification Rights, Law360, Authors: Dania Slim, Alana Lyman, March 29, 2024
Education
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J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2021
Associate Editor, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law JournalB.A., Economics, Fordham University, 2018
summa cum laude; Minor in English; Dean’s List (all years); Co-Founder and Vice President, Moot Court; Economics Society; Pre-Law Society
Admissions
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New York
Courts
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Clerkships
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Judicial Extern to the Honorable Elizabeth S. Stong, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York (2021)
Judicial Extern to the Honorable William J. Giacomo, New York State Supreme Court, Westchester County (2020)