Richard Cooper’s practice focuses on domestic and international restructurings. He has advised clients involved in some of the most prominent and noteworthy restructurings in the United States and Latin America over the past two decades.
Rich is recognised as one of the leading restructuring lawyers in the United States and the ‘go-to’ person for cross-border restructurings. Rich was part of the Cleary team that represented the US Treasury in its financial assistance programme to US air carriers, and the Mexican government in the restructuring of the Mexico City Airport. He represented Garuda Airlines, the state-owned Indonesian airline, in its restructuring of over US$9.5 billion of debt and other obligations and has represented the governments of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Lebanon, Indonesia and Colombia in restructuring and liability management matters.
Among other recently completed matters, Rich represented LATAM Airlines as debtors, as well as advising Apollo Capital as DIP lender (and various creditors) to Grupo Aeroméxico, in their respective restructurings under Chapter 11. He also represented an ad hoc creditor committee in the out-of-court restructuring of Azul, the Brazilian airline, an ad hoc creditor committees in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Stoneway Capital and the DIP lenders and ad hoc creditor committee in Alphacredit. Rich represented Groupo Posados, one of the region’s largest hotel and resort companies, in its pre-packaged Chapter 11 proceeding and is currently representing, among others, ad hoc creditor committees in the SAS Airline Chapter 11 case, and two ongoing restructurings of companies involved in the petrochemicals and cement industries.
He received a JD from Columbia Law School, an MSc from the University of London and a BA from Duke University.
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