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Ingrid Bagby's practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring and related litigation. She regularly represents creditors, debtors, investors, market participants and other parties in chapter 9 and chapter 11 proceedings and complex business reorganizations, and has extensive experience with cross-border restructurings, including acting for foreign representatives and other parties in chapter 15 proceedings. Ingrid also advises clients on bankruptcy issues and claims resolution involving complex derivatives and structured products, and on the safe harbor provisions for financial contracts under multiple insolvency regimes.
Since its inaugural issue in 2020, Ingrid has been named among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers. She has also been recognized as a key individual in corporate restructuring by The Legal 500 U.S., recognized in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law and recognized as an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds & Workouts. Ingrid was included in the 2022 and 2023 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for her work in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Bankruptcy Litigation. In 2022, she was recognized among the “Best Mentors” as part of ALM Corporate Counsel’s annual “Women, Influence & Power in Law” awards.
Ingrid has advised clients in numerous high-profile U.S. and cross-border bankruptcies and restructurings, including those of the Zohar funds, Seadrill Limited, Roust Corporation, Peabody Energy Corporation, Linn Energy, LLC, BreitBurn Energy Partners LP, Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), Residential Capital, LLC, Lehman Re Ltd., Truvo USA LLC, Northwest Airlines, Tribune Company, TBS Shipping Inc., Marco Polo Seatrade SV, Tronox Incorporated, Heartland Automotive Holdings, Inc. and Mirant Americas Generation, among others.
Ingrid is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), INSOL International and the Bankruptcy Litigation Committee of the Federal Bar Council. She participated in UNCITRAL's working group on proposed additions to the Model Insolvency Law and was a member of the advisory committee on executory contracts and leases for the ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. She is a frequent speaker and author on bankruptcy and restructuring topics and is a recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, which recognizes exceptional legal writing.
Ingrid is the partner sponsor of Cadwalader’s Women’s Leadership Initiative and is a member of various firm committees, including the firm’s Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, the Taskforce for the Advancement of Women, the Opinions Committee and the Center for Diversity & Inclusion Oversight Committee.
Prior to joining Cadwalader, she served as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Conrad B. Duberstein, Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
Ingrid received her undergraduate degree, with honors, from Georgia State University and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an editor of the Journal of Law and Policy. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
