Katie practices in the areas of banking, financial services, corporate and bankruptcy law. She has represented banks, bank holding companies and other financial institutions in connection with regulatory filings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures of bank branches and assets, lending transactions and general corporate matters. She has also served on teams representing clients in the biopharmaceutical, telecommunications and manufacturing industries in merger and acquisition transactions. Katie's bankruptcy experience has included the representation of creditors, debtors and purchasers of assets in business bankruptcy cases. She has extensive experience in the structuring of bankruptcy-remote special purpose entities and the issuance of nonconsolidation opinions in CMBS transactions. Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications · "Bankruptcy Court Denies Motions to Dismiss Cases of SPE Subsidiaries of General Growth Properties, Inc.," co-author, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Client Advisory, September 2009. · "Update on General Growth Properties Bankruptcy," co-author, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Client Advisory, June 2009. · "Recent First Circuit Developments and Persisting Problems Regarding Avoidance of Impairing Liens," co-authored, ABI Journal, Dec 1998/Jan 1999. News & Publications September 2009, Advisory - Bankruptcy Court Denies Motions to Dismiss Cases of SPE Subsidiaries of General Growth Properties, Inc.
Role of Independent Managers Addressed; Section 18-1101(c) of Delaware LLC Act Ignored June 2009, Client Advisory - Update on General Growth Properties Bankruptcy July 7, 2008, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Recognized in the American Lawyer April 10, 2008, EAPD Represents Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in $8.8 Billion Acquisition of Millennium Pharmaceuticals November 29, 2006, EAPD Serves as Lead Counsel for Mortgage Financing Secured by 2.6 Million Acres of Timberland and Timber, with Purchase Price of $3.16 Billion
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Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP Before Edwards Wildman Katie served as a staff attorney for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1998-99), law clerk to United States Bankruptcy Judge Joan N. Feeney (1995-97) and Special Assistant Attorney General with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (1993-95). Additionally, she has several years of experience working in the insurance industry. Besides Edwards Wildman Katie is a member of the Boards of Directors of Milton Hospital, Inc. and its parent company, Milton Hospital Foundation, Inc. She serves on the boards' Audit Committee and Executive Committee. Katie is also an elected Milton Town Meeting Member and a former Chairman of the Milton Warrant (Finance) Committee. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Milton-Fuller Housing Corporation, which oversees a senior living community. Industries · Banking & Financial Institutions · Healthcare Memberships · American Bankruptcy Institute · American Bar Association · Boston Bar Association |