Samuel Khalil

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Khalil has worked on many of the largest, most complex and precedent-setting corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. His engagements have ranged across a wide array of industries, including energy, telecommunications, shipping, chemicals, airline, financial services, automotive, pharmaceuticals, satellite, retail and real estate.

Mr. Khalil ‘s representations have included, among others: Envision Healthcare Corp. (counsel to largest secured creditor); Ebix (counsel to Zinnia, an Eldridge company, in connection with the acquisition of Ebix’s life and annuity assets); J.Crew Group, Inc. (counsel to certain financial institutions holding secured term loans and senior secured notes); Incora/Wesco (counsel to debtor); Frontier Communications Corp. (counsel to ad hoc unsecured noteholders); Elevate Textiles (counsel to debtor); Pacific Gas & Electric (counsel to official committee of unsecured creditors); Yak Access (counsel to debtor); Voyager Aviation (counsel to debtor); Windstream Holdings, Inc. (ad hoc committee of secured noteholders); American Commercial Lines (counsel to debtor); Natural Resource Partners (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured creditors); Transworld Systems (counsel to debtor); Vanguard Natural Resources (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders); W&T Offshore (counsel to certain holders of debt in connection with out-of-court restructuring); Samson Resources (counsel to KKR as sponsor); Penn Virginia (counsel to unofficial committee of bondholders); Energy XXI (counsel to an ad hoc committee of second lien noteholders); Ultra Petroleum (counsel to an ad hoc committee of unsecured creditors); Midstates Petroleum (counsel to exchanging noteholders); Lyondell Chemical Company (counsel to an ad hoc committee of senior secured lenders); Momentive Performance Materials (counsel to an ad hoc group of second lien debtholders).

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Khalil is recognized by Chambers, IFLR1000 and Legal 500. He is currently ranked by Chambers USA for NY Bankruptcy/Restructuring, where clients have described him as “very accessible, creative in his approach and thoughtful." In 2024, Legal 500 named Mr. Khalil a Leading Lawyer after being named a Next Generation Partner from 2017-2023. In 2015, Mr. Khalil was named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer by Turnarounds & Workouts. He is also a co-author of the chapter on “Trends in DIP Financing in the Aftermath of the Credit Crisis of 2008-2009” in Collier Guide to Chapter 11 (2010).

Mr. Khalil received his J.D., cum laude, from Hofstra University, where he served as an associate editor of the Hofstra Law Review.