Michele Maman
Biography
Michele Maman is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
Michele focuses her practice on bankruptcy, restructuring, and distressed work-outs and reorganizations, both in-court and out-of-court. She has represented secured/unsecured creditors, private lenders, investors, ad hoc groups, shareholders, funds, monoline insurers, and other market participants in complex restructurings (both foreign and domestic) and related litigation.
Additionally, Michele has experience relating to the intersection of structured finance and bankruptcy, including CLO bankruptcy issues.
Michele Maman is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
Michele focuses her practice on bankruptcy, restructuring, and distressed work-outs and reorganizations, both in-court and out-of-court. She has represented secured/unsecured creditors, private lenders, investors, ad hoc groups, shareholders, funds, monoline insurers, and other market participants in complex restructurings (both foreign and domestic) and related litigation.
Additionally, Michele has experience relating to the intersection of structured finance and bankruptcy, including CLO bankruptcy issues.
- Represented monoline MBIA in connection with the chapter 11 cases and related federal court and bankruptcy court litigation (including with Lynn Tilton and her affiliated entities) arising from its exposure to the distressed Zohar CLOs with over $4 billion in debt.
- Represented a joint venture in the Bankruptcy Code section 363 acquisition of aircraft manufacturer MD Helicopters.
- Represented TIAA on account of its claims under master repurchase agreement and related guaranty in the chapter 11 cases of Reverse Mortgage Funding.
- Represented Kingsland Holdings in its capacity as pre-petition lender, post-petition DIP lender, and shareholder in the chapter 11 cases of Avianca Holdings.
- Represented ad hoc secured lender committee comprised of 14 worldwide financial institutions that held approximately 95% of the secured debt in the chapter 11 cases of Toisa Ltd. (shipping fleet owned by Greek shipping magnate Gregory Callimanopulos),
- Represented Voya in its capacity as CLO manager in connection with its distressed loans and exposures in several major chapter 11 restructurings.
- Represented multiple financial institution and hedge fund derivative counterparties in connection with their exposures during periods of market dislocation and hedge fund liquidations/wind-downs.
- Represented numerous swap counterparties in connection with their exposures in multiple chapter 11 cases.
- Represented bank with strategic interest in reorganization of Diebold Nixdorf through proceedings both in the Netherlands (Dutch “WHOA”) and the U.S. chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases.
Some of these representations were handled by Michele prior to joining Haynes Boone.
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
- INSOL International
- Recognized as a leading practitioner in Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR 1000, 2024
- Recognized by Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers, 2020, 2024-2025
- Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S., Legalease Ltd., as a Key Corporate Restructuring Lawyer, 2021-2022
- Recognized as a leading restructuring lawyer in Legal Media Group’s “Women in Business Law” Expert Guides series, 2022
- Recognized as an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds & Workouts, 2017, 2020
- “‘Know Your Customer,’ or Agent, or Financial Institution, to Qualify for the Bankruptcy Code Safe Harbors,” co-author, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, June 2024.
- "Don't go chasing waterfalls: intercreditor agreements in the context of agency mortgage servicing rights," co-author, Reuters, June 14, 2023.
- "Quantifying Cryptocurrency Claims in Bankruptcy: Does the Dollar Still Reign Supreme?" co-author, Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable, January 24, 2023.
- "The Ongoing Solvent Debtor Debate: Divided Ninth Circuit Panel Holds that PG&E Creditors Are Entitled to Contract Rate of Interest," co-author, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, December 2022.
- "Seventh Circuit Provides Rare Guidance on 'Statutory Liens'," co-author, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, July 2022.
- "Turnover Provision Ruling Is Warning For Junior Creditors," co-author, Law360, June 14, 2022.
- "Stand Pat, Don’t Act: Supreme Court Holds That Mere Retention of Debtor Property Does Not Violate Section 362(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code’s Automatic Stay Provision," co-author, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, April 28, 2021.
- "The District Court in Tribune Circumscribes Merit and Maintains Section 546(e) Safe Harbor Protection for Shareholders in the Wake of a Failed LBO," co-author, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, October 1, 2019.
- "TCEH Bankruptcy: SDNY Transfers Delaware Trust Company v. Wilmington Trust N.A. Intercreditor Dispute to Delaware Bankruptcy Court, Reaffirming Broad View of Bankruptcy Jurisdiction," co-author, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, November 5, 2015.
- "Buyer (and its Creditors) Beware: SemCrude District Court Finds That Purchasers Took Oil and Gas Free and Clear of Producers’ Liens," co-author, BNA's Bankruptcy Law Reporter, October 8, 2015.
- "Trust Indenture Act of 1939: A Sleeping Statute Comes Back to Life," co-author, BNA's Bankruptcy Law Reporter, May 14, 2015.
Education
J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
B.A., Barnard College Columbia University, cum laude
Admissions
New York
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Restructuring Partners Ingrid Bagby and Michele Maman Join Haynes Boone’s Expanding New York Office
June 30, 2025