Ms. Amy Edgy

Amy Edgy is a restructuring and insolvency partner with Linklaters in Washington, D.C., where her practice is focused on municipal bankruptcies, health care systems, cultural institutions, retail corporations, financial institutions and airlines. She regularly represents both debtors and creditors in connection with some of the country?s largest restructurings and reorganizations. Most recently, she advised the world?s largest private sector coal company, Peabody Energy Corp., and its subsidiaries in their chapter\n11 cases. In addition to her debtor-side representations, Ms. Edgy has also advised large creditor groups\nthroughout her career, including creditors in one of the country?s largest municipal bankruptcies in Jefferson County, Ala., as well as creditors in the Forum Health and Delta Air Lines bankruptcies. Her recent representative matters include advising a large multinational corporation on a potential acquisition of assets in a chapter 7 bankruptcy; advising Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. as the largest creditor and equityholder in the Mattress Firm chapter 11 case filed in October 2018 and representing Stripes US Holding Inc., the U.S. parent company through which Steinhoff indirectly owned Mattress Firm, in its petition for recognition of an English scheme of arrangement that implemented the restructuring of Stripes?s financial indebtedness, which was critical to the successful implementation of Mattress Firm?s\nchapter 11 plan; and representing Lehman Brothers International (Europe), the principal trading com-\npany in Europe within the Lehman Brothers group of entities, in its petition for recognition of an English\nscheme of arrangement as a foreign main proceeding under chapter 15. Ms. Edgy has received numerous honors throughout her career, including most recently being recognized in Chambers USA 2017 as a ?Leader in Field? and receiving DCA Live?s 2019 ?Emerging Women Leaders in Private Practice? award. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in politics in 1996 from Wake Forest University and her J.D. in 1999 from Emory University School of Law, where she was a James L. Colson Scholar.