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 creditors’ committees, debtors-in-possession, chapter 11 and 7 trustees, liquidating trustees, and secured and unsecured creditors. She has negotiated settlements and debtor-in-possession financing, and drafted asset purchase agreements and other asset transfer documents, including the transfer of intellectual property rights.
Representative Experience
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Counsel to Creditors’ Committees in Large and Mid-Size Chapter 11 Cases: Selective representations as counsel to creditors’ committee include a destination resort club with 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.
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Counsel to Debtors-in-Possession: Counsel to 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.
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Counsel to Secured and Unsecured Creditors on Matters Involving Bankruptcy: Counsel to landlords and tenants, 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.
- 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
- 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 Edition
- Co-Editor, Reorganizing Failing Businesses, A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Financial Restructuring and Business Reorganization, third edition, April 2017
Published Decisions
- 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
Admissions
- Colorado
- Texas
- U.S. District Court, Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit
Memberships
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, former Co-Chair of the Mountain/Desert Network
- Faculty of Federal Advocates
- Colorado Bar Association, Former Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy Sub-Section
- Colorado Bar Foundation
- Denver Bar Association, Business and Bankruptcy Subsections
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- 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
- Best Lawyers in America® distinction in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2023-2025)
- 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
- Rising Stars® in the field of Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights (2013-2015, Law & Politics)
- Top 5 Semi-Finalist, Rising Star Award, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (2011)
- Up and Coming Star (2009, Law Week Colorado)