Sarah Jones
Overview
Experience
Representative Matters
Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. — Representation of Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. (GCEH) and 14 of its subsidiaries (“Global Clean”) in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Global Clean is a vertically integrated renewable fuels innovator that produces ultra-low carbon renewable fuels. Global Clean entered Chapter 11 to facilitate a debt-for-equity exchange with certain of the company’s key stakeholders, including lenders holding 96% of the company’s funded secured debt, who are supporting the Chapter 11 through a restructuring support agreement and an agreement to provide the company with approximately $200 million in new money debtor-in-possession capital.
Ligado Networks LLC — Representation of an ad hoc group of crossholders of more than $4 billion in principal amount of debt and equity in Ligado Networks LLC (“Ligado”), a leading satellite communications company, in Ligado’s prearranged Chapter 11 case filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”). Ligado filed for bankruptcy with a restructuring support agreement (“RSA”) in place that is supported by holders of nearly 90% of the company’s $7.8 billion of aggregate funded indebtedness and a significant portion of its equity. The RSA provides for the conversion of existing debt into new preferred equity, the preservation of the existing interests in the capital structure below the new preferred equity, a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile Inc. in respect of spectrum usage rights, and the preservation of Ligado’s $39 billion takings claim against the U.S. government. In addition, the Bankruptcy Court approved a $940 million multi-draw debtor-in-possession credit facility funded in part by the ad hoc group of crossholders that provides Ligado with access to new money financing and will refinance certain of Ligado’s existing debt.
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Thought Leadership
Publications
Author, “Ameliorating Bankruptcy’s Forum Shopping Crisis Through Abstention and Venue Transfer,” Florida Law Review, 2024
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2024Illinois
Education
- University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of LawJ.D.2024
CALI Book Award in Bankruptcy, Criminal Procedure, Antitrust, and Appellate Law and Policy
Florida Moot Court Team
Florida Law Review
- Colgate UniversityB.A., History2018