Samantha Martin

Associate

New York, (212) 336-4128

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Education

University of Florida (B.A., 2004)
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Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University (J.D., 2007)

Practices

Banking + Financial Services

Business Restructuring + Insolvency

Capital Markets

Bar Admissions

New York

Samantha Martin is an associate in the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group of the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. Ms. Martin’s practice focuses on the representation of Chapter 11 debtors, official committees, and other parties in interest in complex Chapter 11 proceedings. Ms. Martin has also advised foreign representatives in Chapter 15 recognition proceedings.

Ms. Martin received her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she received a Jacob Burns Medal and served as Managing Editor of the Cardozo Law Review. Ms. Martin is admitted to practice in the state of New York.

Residential Capital, LLC

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Residential Capital, one of the largest residential real estate finance companies with assets and liabilities each in excess of $15 billion, whose business is comprised primarily of loan servicing and origination, and its subsidiary companies, in their pending chapter 11 cases. Residential Capital was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2012 and the case represents the first time ever that a mortgage servicer was able to successfully continue servicing and originating mortgages in bankruptcy and be sold as a going concern.

In re Fairfield Residential LLC, et al.

(Bankr. D. Del.) Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Fairfield Residential LLC, a large multi-family and low income housing developer and property manager, in its Chapter 11 reorganization. Currently represent the FFR Trust, the liquidating trust that was formed post-petition to liquidate the debtors’ remaining assets, resolve claims, and facilitate distributions to creditors.

In re Extended Stay Inc., et al.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Representation of mezzanine lenders owed $3.3 billion by the Debtors in Extended Stay Inc.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Extended Stay is the largest bankruptcy filing in the history of the hospitality industry with nearly $8 billion in debt.

Electroglas, Inc.

(Bankr. D. Del.) Representation of Electroglas, a provider of automated probing technologies, in Chapter 11 proceedings involving the successful sale of its business and liquidation of foreign subsidiaries.

Qimonda AG

(Bankr. E.D. Va.) Representation of semiconductor company Qimonda AG in its Chapter 15 bankruptcy case.