Megan Adeyemo is a Partner in the Business Transactions, Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Creditors’ Rights, Real Estate, Directors & Officers and Shareholder Litigation and Banking & Finance practice groups. She is the co-chair of the firm’s national Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights practice group. Megan has substantial experience in the representation of debtors, creditors and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings throughout the United States. She has represented, debtors-in-possession, chapter 11 and 7 trustees, liquidating trustees, creditors’ committees and secured and unsecured creditors, in a variety of matters, including debtor-in-possession financing, section 363 sales, plan confirmation, and avoidance actions.
- Counsel to Creditors’ Committees in Large and Mid-Size Chapter 11 Cases: Counsel to creditors’ committee include a destination resort club in excess of $50 million in unsecured debt and a financial services company that offered subprime automobile loans with debt in excess of $109 million.
- Counsel to Debtors-in-Possession: Counsel to The Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego, a golf club and resort, high end furniture designer, a limited liability company that owns and operates retail coffee shops and drive-thru coffee facilities, the largest organic farm in Colorado, a real estate developer holding approximately 2,700 acres in Solano County, California, and a developer of single family homes in Colorado with real property valued at approximately $18 million.
- Counsel to Secured and Unsecured Creditors on Matters Involving Bankruptcy: Counsel to landlords and tenants, secured creditors secured by real and personal property, a lender secured by motor vehicles in several bankruptcies, entity that owns patent rights utilized by the debtor entity pursuant to an intellectual property license, and a number of creditors being pursued for avoidable transfers, such as preferences.
- Bankruptcy Litigation: Counsel to parties in litigation in bankruptcy court such as avoidable transfer cases, directors and officers liability, property ownership disputes, and dischargeability.
- Featured, San Diego Diocese ReEnters Ch. 11 Over Sex Abuse Claims, Law360, June 18, 2024
- Co-Author, Helping Those Who Have Borne the Battle: Working with Veterans, Servicemembers, and Their Families on Financial Issues, ABA Business Law Today, October 2021
- Contributing Author, The Bankruptcy Claims Handbook, 2nd Edition, October 2021
- Co-Author, Guide for In-House Counsel: Practical Resource to Cutting Edge Issues – Chapter 8, March 2019
- Author, Lawyers’ Professional Liability in Colorado: Preventing Legal Malpractice and Disciplinary Actions – Chapter 31, 2017-2019 Editions
- Co-Editor and Author, Reorganizing Failing Businesses, A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Financial Restructuring and Business Reorganization, third edition, April 2017
- Featured, California Proton Keeps Operator’s Priority in $32M DIP Order, Law360, March 29, 2017
- Author, How to Use Prepayments to Avoid Preference Liability Before a Bankruptcy Filing, Business Law Newsletter, Colorado Bar Association Business Law Section, November 29, 2011
- Author, Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court – Oil and Water?, Business Law Newsletter, Colorado Bar Association Business Law Section, November 20, 2010
Published Decisions
- Co-Moderator, With a Little Help from my Friends: The Nuts and Bolts of Amicus Briefs in Bankruptcy Cases, ABA Business Law Section Business Bankruptcy Committee Meeting, in conjunction with the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, September 18, 2025
- Speaker, What’s New in Bankruptcy Pro Bono, and Why it Matters – Now!, ABA/EJC Conference 2022
- Speaker, Getting Young Lawyers into Court, American Bar Association, Business Section Business Bankruptcy Committee Conference, October 6, 2021
- Speaker, Get a Fresh Perspective: Special-Purpose Entities and Single-Asset Real Estate Insolvencies, American Bankruptcy Institute’s Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference, January 24, 2020
- Speaker, Everything you Prefer to Avoid: What you Really Should Know About Transfers, Preferences and Avoidance Actions, American Bar Association, Business Section Business Bankruptcy Committee Conference, October 12, 2011
- Speaker, Commercial Lease Work-Outs and Litigation in the New Economy, BOMA 2010 International Conference, Long Beach, California, June 28, 2010
Admissions
- Colorado
- Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Tenth Circuits
Memberships
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, former Co-Chair of the Mountain/Desert Network
- Faculty of Federal Advocates
- Dallas Bar Association, Business Section
- Colorado Bar Association, Former Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy Sub-Section
- Colorado Bar Foundation
- Denver Bar Association, Business and Bankruptcy Subsections
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Turnaround Management Association
- Turnaround Management Association, Network of Women
- Attorneys Serving the Community
- ABA Business Section Bankruptcy Committee
- Director to the Content Board of the Business Law Section
- Co-Chair of the Publications Subcommittee
- Co-Chair of the Pro-Bono Services Subcommittee
Education
- J.D., University of Denver College of Law, 2005
- B.A., Political Science, Emphasis in Government and Policy, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
Externships
- Former Chief Judge Sidney B. Brooks, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado, Denver
Honors
- Top Lawyer, Southlake Style, 2025
- Best Lawyers in America® distinction in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2023-2026
- Executive Editor of Bankruptcy & Finance, Business Law Today from ABA
- Kathryn R. Heidt Memorial Award of the ABA’s Section of Business Law Business Bankruptcy Committee, 2021
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars® distinction in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, 2013-2015
- Colorado Bar Foundation Fellow
- Top 5 Semi-Finalist, Rising Star Award, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, 2011
- Up and Coming Star, Law Week Colorado, 2009