Partner Andrew Troop to Receive Massachusetts Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award

In 2016, Troop successfully concluded two major pro bono matters in conjunction with Greater Boston Legal Services, a Boston-based non-profit committed to providing critical legal advice and representation to low-income individuals. The first case involved representation of 15 Chinese immigrants who had been deprived of their wages by their employer, with Troop successfully thwarting the employer’s attempt to discharge her financial obligations through bankruptcy. In the second, he advised a group of more than 20 subsidized housing tenants, helping to facilitate a chapter 11 sale of two apartment buildings to a non-profit that dedicated the properties to affordable housing for the next 50 years. By teaming up with these tenants, the non-profit won the auction for these properties even though its bid was not the highest cash offer for the properties. 

As East Coast Leader of Pillsbury’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice, Troop represents debtors, creditors, acquirers, landlords, and creditors’ and equity committees on business reorganizations and debtors’ and creditors’ rights issues. He has also helped private equity clients acquire, sell and reorganize U.S. and international portfolio companies and defend fraudulent transfer and breach of duty claims. He heads Pillsbury’s Distressed Energy Opportunity Task Force—which identifies and helps clients capitalize on opportunities across energy sources and disciplines—and has an established track record of advising on pioneering restructuring transactions including one of Financial Times’ most innovative matters of 2016.