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Hugh Murtagh

Murtagh_Hugh

Hugh Murtagh

Partner

  • Chair, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
New York + 1 212 295 6638

Hugh Murtagh, a partner and Chair of WilmerHale’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group, advises companies, creditors, sponsors, financing sources, purchasers and other stakeholders on complex corporate restructurings and related disputes. His practice spans consensual refinancings, out-of-court workouts, liability management transactions, Chapter 11 proceedings, cross-border insolvencies, creditor enforcement matters and alternative wind-downs.

Hugh has particular experience counseling clients with respect to disputes, risk management and litigation arising from financial distress. Hugh regularly counsels boards of directors and senior management of financially troubled companies on fiduciary duties, corporate governance and related matters and advises clients facing exposure to distressed counterparties.

Before joining WilmerHale, Hugh practiced at two other AmLaw 100 firms. He previously served as a law clerk to Judge P. Kevin Castel of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Hugh earned his JD, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law and his BA from Yale University.

Experience

Hugh’s representative matters include:

Chapter 11 Proceedings*

  • DocuData Solutions, L.C. (Exela) (debtors)
  • The Container Store (debtors)
  • Vroom, Inc. (debtors)
  • Robertshaw US Holding Corp. (debtors)
  • Enviva, Inc. (first-lien lender group)
  • FTX Trading, Ltd. (fraudulent transfer action defendant)
  • Mallinckrodt plc (2023) (debtors)
  • Bird Global (first-lien lender)
  • DeCurtis Holdings, LLC (key customer & finance party)
  • Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (debtors)
  • TPC Group, Inc. (sponsors)
  • GTT Communications, Inc. (second-lien noteholders)
  • Mallinckrodt plc (2021) (debtors)
  • Gulfport Energy Corporation (first-lien, DIP and exit facility agent)
  • Intelsat S.A. (equity holders)
  • Cosi, Inc. (DIP lender)
  • PRIDCO (Puerto Rico instrumentality) (lender)
  • MTE Holdings, LLC (first-lien lenders)
  • WorldStrides (DIP agent)
  • Novum Pharma, LLC (preference action defendant)
  • Superior Energy Services, Inc. (debtors)
  • Hi-Crush Inc. (debtors)
  • Emerge Energy Services LP (debtors)
  • Hexion Holdings, LLC (debtors)
  • Vanguard Natural Resources, Inc. (first-lien, DIP and exit facility agent)
  • Mattress Firm, Inc. (DIP-to-exit lender)
  • Cobalt International Energy, Inc. (secured creditor and strategic purchaser)
  • Nortel Networks (debtors)
  • Overseas Shipholding Group (debtors) (IFLR’s Restructuring of the Year 2013)

 

International/Sovereign*

  • Bibby Offshore Services in its Chapter 15 proceedings
  • Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico
  • Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq in its dispute with the Kurdistan Region

 

Out-of-Court Liability Management and Restructuring*

  • Numerous non-public amendment, exchange, liability management, ring-fencing, foreclosure, assignment for the benefit of creditors, wind-down and other out-of-court transactions for companies and creditors

*Includes experience prior to joining WilmerHale.

Insights & News

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, New York University School of Law, 2011

      magna cum laude

    • BA, Yale University, 1999

  • Admissions

    • New York

Credentials

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