Sarah A. Schultz

Sarah L. Schultz is a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Financial Restructuring group in Dallas and handles large, complex restructuring cases and out-of-court corporate reorganizations for public and private companies, as well as for alternative investment funds. She routinely handles representations for debtors, official and unofficial committees of creditors, secured lender groups, debtor-in-possession lenders and acquirers of assets. Ms. Schultz focuses on the energy market, particularly oil and gas, with substantial work across a broad range of industries, including shipping, retail and healthcare. Her energy representations include the restructurings of Tapstone Energy, Elevation Midstream,SAExploration, Petro Quest Energy, EMAS CHIYODA Subsea Limited, Quicksilver Resources, Brazos Electric Power Cooperative and Just Energy, among others. Ms. Schultz was recently included in TheAmerican Lawyer’s Trailblazers: South list and named one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” by D Magazine. She received her B.A. summa cum laude in 1998 from the University of North Dakota and her J.D.cum laude in 2001 from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a member of the Minnesota Law Review in 2000 and 2001.