Stacy A. Lutkus

Stacy A. Lutkus is a partner in the Business Restructuring group of McDermott Will & Emery LLP in New York, where she focuses her practice on all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border reorganization matters. She advises companies and foreign representatives preparing chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases for filing, as well as debtors, creditors, purchasers (including stalking-horse bidders) and lenders in connection with out-of-court restructuring transactions, distressed-asset sales, DIP financing and exit financing. She also advises official committees of unsecured creditors, as well as individual secured and unsecured creditors, equityholders and post-confirmation trusts in bankruptcy and litigation matters. Ms. Lutkus maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on representing the interests of children. Prior to her legal career, she spent several years working as a special agent for the U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, where she gained experience conducting witness interviews, participating in enforcement operations, preparing special agent reports and testifying in court proceedings. Ms. Lutkus has been listed in Lawdragon as a 2020 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyer, and she was selected for the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Leadership Program, She is a member of ABI, the Federal Bar Council’s Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, INSOL and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). Ms. Lutkus received her B.S. magna cum laude in 1997 from Drexel University and her J.D. in 2002 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.