Ismail Buffins

Ismail received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Outreach Coordinator for the Black Law Students Association. Prior to law school, he received his M.Div., magna cum laude, in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Harvard University, where he served as a representative on both the Harvard Graduate Council and the Harvard Divinity School Student Association. Ismail received his B.A. in Sociology, magna cum laude, from Purchase College, SUNY, where he was a founding member of the men’s swim team and taught yoga.

Ismail has been a member of teams representing various parties in a number of in-court restructurings and other matters, including:

Debtor/Company-Side Experience:

• Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based software developer in its chapter 11 cases, involving billions of dollars in claims asserted by the S.E.C. in ongoing litigation. Terraform Labs is a software development company that develops and supports (i) software used to create and run the Terra blockchain network, a unique decentralized digital ledger of peer-to-peer transactions involving digital assets, and (ii) an entire suite of tools, protocols, and applications that operate on the Terra blockchain.
• AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., the largest movie exhibition company in the United States and globally, in its successful out-of-court restructuring which included various capital raising efforts that yielded over $1.5 billion of cash and other liquidity improvements and the reduction of AMC’s debt load by more than $550 million.

Creditor/Acquiror/Other Experience:

• An ad hoc group of first lien lenders in connection with the out-of-court cross-border restructuring of Covis Pharma, a multinational specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in Switzerland.