Bio

Nathan Coco is a seasoned bankruptcy attorney with extensive experience across the restructuring and insolvency arena, including with distressed finance and creditor rights matters, mergers and acquisitions transactions, and bankruptcy litigation. He has a strong track record of successfully representing institutional investors, indenture trustees, public debt holders, strategic and financial buyers, and asset-based lenders in distressed debt transactions involving corporations, public projects, and defaulted municipal securities. Nathan works with clients in a wide variety of industries, including health care, senior living, derivative financial products, retail, energy, manufacturing, and financial services. Nathan has represented clients in cases connected with Chapter 7, Chapter 9, and Chapter 11 filings across the country, including Lehman Brothers Holdings, W.R. Grace & Co., United Airlines, Sentinel Management Group, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, City of Detroit, City of San Bernardino, Verity Health System of California, Fairmont General Hospital, Casa Grande Regional Medical Center, Forum Health, The Clare at Water Tower, Sears Methodist Retirement System, Deerfield Retirement Community, Peterson Health Care, Mirador, AMERCO Real Estate Company, and Enron Corp. In addition to his restructuring work, Nathan assists clients with the preservation of collateral and creditor rights and remedies upon a counterparty default or bankruptcy. He also counsels clients on the Bankruptcy Code “safe harbor” treatment of derivative financial product transactions. Prior to joining Mintz, Nathan was a partner at an international law firm, where he represented clients in a broad spectrum of debt restructuring matters, bankruptcy cases, and transactions involving distressed assets. He was previously an associate with a Chicago-based law firm that focuses on municipal finance. Before attending law school, Nathan worked for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association as a documentation policy analyst. He has also previously served as an adjunct faculty member at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.