Ingrid Bagby
Biography
Ingrid Bagby is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
Her practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring and related litigation. Ingrid advises creditors, investors, private credit providers, market participants and other parties in bankruptcy cases and complex business reorganizations, and has extensive experience with cross-border restructurings, including acting for foreign representatives and other parties in U.S. and foreign proceedings. Ingrid also advises clients on bankruptcy and claims resolution issues involving complex derivatives and structured products, and on the safe harbor provisions for financial contracts under multiple insolvency regimes.
Ingrid Bagby is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
Her practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring and related litigation. Ingrid advises creditors, investors, private credit providers, market participants and other parties in bankruptcy cases and complex business reorganizations, and has extensive experience with cross-border restructurings, including acting for foreign representatives and other parties in U.S. and foreign proceedings. Ingrid also advises clients on bankruptcy and claims resolution issues involving complex derivatives and structured products, and on the safe harbor provisions for financial contracts under multiple insolvency regimes.
- Represented a major financial institution as agent for the lenders to Mercon Coffee Corp. and its affiliates in their chapter 11 cases.
- Represented senior secured lender in the chapter 11 cases of the Margaritaville Hotel.
- Counsel to acquirors of assets in several recent Bankruptcy Code Section 363 asset sales.
- Represented multiple financial institution derivative counterparties in connection with their exposures during periods of market dislocation and hedge fund liquidations.
- Advised MBIA in connection with the chapter 11 cases and related federal court and bankruptcy court litigation arising from exposure to distressed CLOs with over $4.1 billion in debt.
- Represented a regional bank within the Federal Reserve System in connection with the creation, structuring and implementation of the Main Street Lending Program, a $600 billion facility to aid small and medium-sized businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Represented a joint venture in the Section 363 acquisition of aircraft manufacturer MD Helicopters.
- Represented the joint administrators of Lehman Re Ltd. In connection with their chapter 15 cases and the resolution of Lehman Re’s obligations of more than $1 billion.
- Represented creditors, lenders and swap counterparties in the chapter 11 cases of, among others, Toys R Us, Peabody Energy Corporation, Linn Energy, Breitburn Energy, Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC).
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- INSOL International
- Turnaround Management Association
- Recognized as a leading practitioner in Restructuring, IFLR 1000, 2024
- Recognized by Legal 500, Legalease Ltd., as a noted practitioner in Restructuring/Bankruptcy, 2024
- Recognized by Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers, 2020-2025
- Recognized in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, 2022
- Recognized as an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds & Workouts, 2008
- Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., 2022-2023
- Recognized among the “Best Mentors,” ALM Corporate Counsel’s annual “Women, Influence & Power in Law” awards, 2022
- Fraudulent Conveyance Exposure for Intercorporate Guaranties, Integrated Transactions, and Designated-Use Loans, presenter, Strafford Webinar, January 16, 2025.
- “Recapping” and Reconciling Merit Management and Nine West, the Second Circuit Holds That Boston Generating’s 2006 “Recapitalization” Was Safe-Harbored, author, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, January 2025.
- “Know Your Customer” or Agent, or Financial Institution, to Qualify for the Bankruptcy Code Safe Harbors, author, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, June 2024.
- Ongoing Solvent Debtor Debate: Divided Ninth Circuit Panel Holds that PG&E Creditors Are Entitled to Contract Rate of Interest, author, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, November/December 2022.
- Stand Pat, Don’t Act: U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Mere Retention of Debtor Property Does Not Violate Bankruptcy Code Section 363(a)(3), author, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, April/May 2021.
- The District Court in Tribune Circumscribes Merit and Maintains Section 546€ Safe Harbor Protection for Shareholders in the Wake of a Failed LBO, author, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, October 2019.
- Mandatory Subordination of Affiliate Securities Claims, author, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, March 2016.
Education
J.D., Brooklyn Law School
B.A., Georgia State University
Clerkships
Law Clerk to the Honorable Conrad B. Duberstein, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York
Admissions
New York
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
A Timeline of Ingrid Bagby
Restructuring Partners Ingrid Bagby and Michele Maman Join Haynes Boone’s Expanding New York Office
June 30, 2025