Alexander B. Lees is a partner in the New York office of Milbank. He is a member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring and Litigation & Arbitration Groups.
Mr. Lees is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring-related litigation. He has represented creditors, debtors, private equity sponsors, official committees, ad hoc groups, collateral agents, and bidders in bankruptcy proceedings and other litigation matters arising out of insolvency scenarios and financial restructuring transactions.
Mr. Lees’s significant representations include:
- The Raymond Sackler family, equity holders in the Purdue Pharma chapter 11 case.
- Centre Partners Management and individual directors and officers in a fraudulent transfer and breach of fiduciary action brought by DSI Renal Holdings’ chapter 7 trustee.
- Mercuria Energy Trading as debtor-in-possession lender and successful bidder for the debtor’s assets in Aegean Marine Petroleum’s chapter 11 case.
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in First Energy Solutions’ chapter 11 case.
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in M&G USA’s chapter 11 case.
- Verizon, JPMorgan, and MUFG in fraudulent transfer and plan objection proceedings in GenOn Energy’s chapter 11 case.
- TP Management LLP, as collateral manager, in proceedings to dismiss an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against CDO Taberna Preferred Funding IV.
- Steering committee of lenders in Ocean Rig’s cross-border restructuring and chapter 15 proceeding.
- Ad hoc committee of secured creditors in Midstates Petroleum’s chapter 11 case.
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Breitburn Energy’s chapter 11 case.
- Education Management in lawsuit by bondholders to enjoin out-of-court restructuring based on the Trust Indenture Act.
Mr. Lees received his law degree from Stanford Law School in 2006, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his B.A. in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Lees served as law clerk for the Honorable Debra A. Livingston of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2007-2008), and for the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2006-2007).
Last updated July 2020
