Biography
Amanda Parra Criste is a partner in the Firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. She advises debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, ad hoc groups, and other parties in interest with respect to complex financial restructurings, both in and out of the bankruptcy court. She also has experience advising clients in connection with bankruptcy litigation, chapter 15 cases, and other cross-border insolvency matters.
Experience
Represent Telefónica del Perú (Perú), one of the largest telecommunications companies in Perú with over 13 million customers, with respect to the restructuring of over its $2 billion of debt in Perú and the United States.
Represent InterCement Participações S.A., one of Brazil's largest cement manufacturers and distributors, in connection with InterCement's financial restructuring, including US$750 million of New York-law governed notes in Brazil, Netherlands, Spain and the United States.
Represent an ad hoc group of securitization noteholders in the chapter 11 proceedings of Hooters of America, LLC in the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Represent Morgan Stanley, acting as lead arranger, along with a syndicate of six lenders on all aspects of a complex, comprehensive restructuring strategy with respect to 3.3 billion Brazilian reais (US$ 579.4 million) of debt against Seacrest Petroleo Cricare Bermuda (Seacrest), an upstream oil & gas company, and its subsidiaries.
Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Genesis Global Holdco, LLC.
Represented Crédito Real and its foreign representative in the Company's financial and operational restructuring of over US$2.5 billion of indebtedness, including defending against an involuntary chapter 11 proceeding filed by certain members of an ad hoc group of noteholders, seeking chapter 15 recognition in the U.S. of the Company's Mexican-based liquidation proceeding, successful sale of U.S. assets within the U.S. chapter 15 cases, negotiations with various funded debt creditors.
Represented AlphaCredit in its financial and operational restructuring, including preparation of a chapter 11 filing and negotiations with various funded debt creditors, most notably, an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders. As part of the Chapter 11, White & Case advised the debtors in the successful sale of their Colombian loan portfolio assets.
Represented Radial Power as DIP lender and stalking horse purchaser in the chapter 11 proceedings of leading US clean energy producer Oya Renewables Development LLC.
Represented Oi S.A., of one of Brazil's largest telecommunications companies, in its ongoing financial restructuring (US$6.7 billion of debt).
Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of ION Geophysical Corporation in the contested restructuring of over $138 million of funded debt.
Represented the Ad Hoc Group of Buenos Aires Bondholders in connection with the Province of Buenos Aires' restructuring of US$7.1 billion of external debt.
Represented the independent director in the chapter 11 cases of the Zohar Funds.
Represented Occidental Petroleum and its affiliates who are counterparties to various contracts with Sanchez Energy Corp. and its subsidiaries arising from Anadarko's (now owned by Occidental) 2017 sale of various exploration and production assets in the Comanche area of South Texas to Sanchez and several other oil and gas operators.
Represented Oaktree Capital Management and Canyon Capital Advisors in the comprehensive restructuring of CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., owner and manager of a national portfolio of market-dominant properties malls and shopping centers.
Represented Joerns WoundCo Holdings, Inc. and its affiliated debtors in their expedited prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization that resulted in a balance sheet deleveraging of more than $320 million through a conversion of prepetition debt to equity and a $40 million new money exit facility.
Represented ad hoc group of first lien lenders in connection with out-of-court debt to equity restructuring.*
Represented media and entertainment company with the out-of-court restructuring of its senior secured notes.*
Represented Nissan Motor Co., Ltd in connection with the global restructuring and chapter 11 cases of Takata Corporation.*
Represented equity holders in connection with bankruptcy litigation relating to CS Mining.*
Represented secured creditor and bidder in connection with the successful purchase of copper mine via section 363 sale.*
* Experience prior to joining White & Case
New Trend in Third-Party Releases in Delaware, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Journal, July 2025, (co-author with Loredana B. Miranda)