Andrea C. Saavedra is a senior associate in the firm’s Business Finance & Restructuring Department.
Ms. Saavedra represents debtors, creditors, and equity holders in all areas of domestic and international restructurings and crisis management, both in and out-of-court. Currently, Ms. Saavedra is the lead associate representing Blockbuster Inc. and its domestic affiliates in their chapter 11 cases. Other noteworthy representations include: General Growth Properties (debtor); Lehman Commercial Paper (secured creditor in the Hawaiian Telcom chapter 11); Washington Mutual Inc. (debtor); Federación Nacional de Cafeteros and Valorem S.A. (equity in the Avianca chapter 11 cases); and The Sharper Image (debtor).
Ms. Saavedra also represents, on a pro bono basis, organizations that assist victims of domestic violence and their families. In 2009, Ms. Saavedra was the lead associate of a Weil team honored by Sanctuary for Families with its “Above & Beyond” award for successfully reuniting a mother and her two children across international borders.
Ms. Saavedra has served as a teacher’s assistant to Harvey Miller in his course on Corporate Reorganization at the Columbia Law School since 2007. She is a member of Women@Weil and Latinos@Weil, and a founding member of Mothers@Weil. She graduated magna cum laude, with honors in her major, from Wellesley College in 2001. A 2006 graduate of Columbia Law School, Ms. Saavedra was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, an articles editor for the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and was selected to serve as an extern for the Honorable Judge Sonia M. Sotomayor, then of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in her third year. Ms. Saavedra is fluent in Spanish.