Emily Steele is a partner in the firm's Finance practice. She focuses her practice on the representation of secured and unsecured creditors in restructuring and insolvency matters. Emily represents clients in a variety of contexts in bankruptcy proceedings, including litigation involving the automatic stay, adequate protection, use of cash collateral, assumptions and rejections of executory contracts and unexpired leases, chapter 11 plan confirmation and interpretation, section 363 asset sales, and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. Emily also advises creditors as to their rights and remedies both in and out of court. As a member of the firm's finance practice group, Emily also works on corporate finance, commercial lending, private equity and mezzanine financing transactions. Emily regularly represents institutional investors, banks, private equity sponsors, and other public and private corporations as lenders or borrowers in a broad range of middle market debt finance transactions, as well as loan workouts, modifications, restructurings and debtor-in-possession financings.