Stacy A. Lutkus

Stacy A. Lutkus is a partner in the Business Restructuring group of McDermott Will & Schulte LLP in New York, where she focuses her practice on all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border reorganization matters. She advises companies and foreign representatives preparing chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases for filing, as well as debtors, creditors, purchasers (including stalking-horse bidders) and lenders in connection with out-of-court restructuring transactions, distressed-asset sales, debtor-in-possession and exit financing. She also represents official committees of unsecured creditors, individual secured and unsecured creditors, equityholders and post-confirmation trusts in bankruptcy and related litigation. Ms. Lutkus has significant experience in crypto and crypto-adjacent domestic and cross-border insolvency proceedings, including work on FTX, Terraform Labs (including recognition of its chapter 11 case by the Singapore International Commercial Court), Voyager Digital, Compute North, and the Three Arrows Capital liquidation in the British Virgin Islands (and its parallel chapter 15 case). She maintains an active pro bono practice focused on representing the interests of children, previously served as a special agent with the U.S. Department of the Treasury IRS Criminal Investigation Division, and has been recognized by Lawdragon (2020) and selected for the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Leadership Program. Ms. Lutkus is a member of ABI, the Federal Bar Council’s Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, INSOL and IWIRC. She received her B.S. magna cum laude in 1997 from Drexel University and her J.D. in 2002 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.