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Jeanne P. Darcey

Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    2010
  • Recognized in:
    Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
    Litigation - Bankruptcy
  • Website:
    http://www.sandw.com
  • Phone:
    (617) 338.2800
  • E-mail:
    jdarcey@sandw.com
  • Location:
    One Post Office Square
    Boston, MA 02109
Since beginning her practice in 1983, Ms. Darcey has had high-level and varied experience representing debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, and bondholders in out-of-court workouts, liquidations, creditor assignments and Chapter 11 proceedings. Ms. Darcey also advises clients acquiring assets out of bankruptcy, structuring transactions, litigation and other strategic alternatives involving high-yield or defaulted securities, and rights of licensors and licensees of intellectual property in bankruptcy. 

Ms. Darcey lectures often on bankruptcy issues – most recently in October 2009, at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges on "Employee Issues in Bankruptcy," and in February 2009, for the ABI, on claims trading in bankruptcy. Ms. Darcey has also lectured and moderated panels for the World Law Group, the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, The American Bankruptcy Institute/Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. 

Ms. Darcey served as the chair of the Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group of the World Law Group for 2008 and 2009 and currently serves as co-chair of the CLE committee for the Bankruptcy Section of the Boston Bar Association. She serves on the BBA"s Task Force on Financial Literacy, a joint undertaking by local area lawyers and bankruptcy judges to teach credit responsibility to high school students. 
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Since beginning her practice in 1983, Ms. Darcey has had high-level and varied experience representing debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, and bondholders in out-of-court workouts, liquidations, creditor assignments and Chapter 11 proceedings. Ms. Darcey also advises clients acquiring assets out of bankruptcy, structuring transactions, litigation and other strategic alternatives involving high-yield or defaulted securities, and rights of licensors and licensees of intellectual property in bankruptcy. 

Ms. Darcey lectures often on bankruptcy issues – most recently in October 2009, at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges on "Employee Issues in Bankruptcy," and in February 2009, for the ABI, on claims trading in bankruptcy. Ms. Darcey has also lectured and moderated panels for the World Law Group, the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, The American Bankruptcy Institute/Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. 

Ms. Darcey served as the chair of the Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group of the World Law Group for 2008 and 2009 and currently serves as co-chair of the CLE committee for the Bankruptcy Section of the Boston Bar Association. She serves on the BBA"s Task Force on Financial Literacy, a joint undertaking by local area lawyers and bankruptcy judges to teach credit responsibility to high school students. 
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Bar Admissions:

  • Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bar
  • New York, State of New York

Affiliations:

  • American Bar Association - Co-Chair
  • Boston Bar Association - Co-Chair

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Litigation - Bankruptcy
 

Awards:

  • Chambers USA, Ranked in Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Massachusetts) (2015, 2016)
  • Legal 500 U.S. (2013, 2015)
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2015

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Court Admissions
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Experience
     
     
    Representation of indenture trustee in Chapter 15 case involving Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. and Vitro Packaging, and their concurrent concurso mercantiles proceedings pending in Monterrey, Mexico, including successfully contesting enforcement of foreign plan at the Bankruptcy Court and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Representation of indenture trustees and/or collateral agents in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Lehman Brothers, Station Casinos, Merisant, Visteon, Movie Gallery, House2Home, Peregrine Systems, Service Merchandise, Pillowtex Fieldcrest Cannon, Fruit of the Loom, Ames Department Stores, Casual Male, Converse, Stage Stores, Sterling Chemicals, Homeland Stores, Bradlees, Acme Metals and Costilla Energy
  • Representation of debtors in Chapter 11 proceedings in Boston, including the representation of a large, multiple-location restaurant franchisee in Chapter 11; Representation of debtor entity in out-of-court wind-down and the argument for benefit of creditor
  • Representation of an international non-debtor subsidiary in Chapter 11 proceedings of ultimate corporate parent to protect rights of non-debtor subsidiary to intellectual property assets
  • Representation of secured creditors in leveraged lease financing transactions in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Heck's, Hechinger, Color Tile and Montgomery Ward, including defense of recharacterization litigation involving sale-leaseback transactions
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    Boston, MA 02109
    (617) 338.2800
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    Represent trustees in leveraged lease transactions of assembly line equipment leased to General Motors, or affiliates; represent indenture trustee with respect to bond issues issued or guarantied by General Motors

    Lehman Brothers

    Represent client in its capacities as indenture or pass through trustee of multiple financing transactions involving over $45 billion in debt as a member of the credtiors'''' committee of Lehman Brothers and affiliated debtors
     
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