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Daniel Guyder

Partner

With over twenty years of experience, Daniel has represented debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees, and ad hoc bondholder committees in numerous out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy cases, and cross-border insolvency proceedings throughout the United States. 

Daniel also has advised hedge funds and other entities on buying and selling distressed debt securities and has experience representing parties in a wide range of financing and capital markets transactions, including loan originations.

Daniel served as a member of the “EU Cross-Border Insolvency Court-to-Court Cooperation Principles and Guidelines” project, sponsored by the European Commission and International Insolvency Institute (III) and a member of the LSTA Bankruptcy Reform Working Group.

Experience

Representative matters

International pipeline services company in its non-judicial restructuring of approximately USD150m in secured debt, including through an equity investment and a new secured credit facility.

Published Work

  • Putting it in Reverse: A Possible Path to Chapter 15 Recognition of RVOs and Cannabis Filings,” Annual Review of Insolvency Law, March 2023
  • "Celsius ruling "should be helpful" to FTX customers, ex-CEO faces fraud suit" Global Restructuring Review, January 6, 2023
  • "Crypto-tunities: Transaction strategies in the challenging crypto markets", Allen & Overy update, July 13, 2022
  • "Oh no, where's my crypto? What happens to crypto assets when a custodian fails", Allen & Overy update, June 23, 2022
  • "Corporate Bankruptcies: Trends in Asset Sales and Liquidations", New York City Bar Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization, March 2010
  • "Breaking New Ground in Fraudulent Transfer Law", New York Law Journal, March 2010, with John Kibler
  • "Extinguishing a Secured Creditor's Right to Credit Bid in a Chapter 11 Cram Down", Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, January 2010, with Dan Morse
  • "The Importance of In Re Philadelphia Newspapers", Law360, December 2009, with John Kibler and Daniel Morse
  • "United States-Canadian restructurings: finding COMI with a sense of comity", published in the September 2008 issue of the IBA's Insolvency and Restructuring International, Ken Coleman and Dan Guyder

Qualifications

Admissions

Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2024

Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 1999

Admitted:  United States District Courts

Admitted:  Southern District of New York, 2000

Admitted:  Eastern District of New York, 2000

Admitted: Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2003

Academic

J.D., cum laude, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, 1998

B.B.A., magna cum laude, Siena College, 1993

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.