Andrew Minear is a partner in Ropes & Gray's business restructuring group. He advises debtors, creditors, sponsors and financing sources across the full restructuring spectrum, with a particular focus on representing ad hoc groups of secured lenders and noteholders. His work spans liability management transactions, out-of-court workouts, prepackaged and traditional bankruptcies, debtor-in-possession (DIP) and exit financings, asset sales, litigation, and cross-border matters. He is known for aligning commercial objectives with pragmatic restructuring execution.
Named a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500 in Finance: Restructuring, Andrew advises lender groups when highly leveraged borrowers face liquidity pressure, looming maturities or liability management transactions. His matters span industries including, energy and infrastructure, aerospace and defense, life sciences, real estate and hospitality, and insurance.
Andrew regularly publishes and speaks on distressed-market developments, and he co-authors the firm's Distressed Debt Legal Insights series on liability management and special situations finance.
Outside his practice, Andrew is committed to pro bono work. Through Lawyers Alliance for New York, he advises nonprofits on dissolutions and on transferring their assets to organizations with similar missions, work that earned him the Lawyers Alliance 2025 Cornerstone Award. He also represents asylum seekers before the USCIS Asylum Office and serves on the NextGen Committee of Tina's Wish.
Experience
- Representing an ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Wesco/Incora and its affiliates, and in connection with the appeal of the judgment relating to the liability management transaction of Wesco/Incora to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal.
- Represented an ad hoc group of second lien lenders and preferred equity holders in connection with an out of court liability management transaction that included over $250 million of new liquidity and recapitalization of a private company’s debt.*
- Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with the chapter 11 cases of PosiGen, PBC and its affiliates, including a sale of PosiGen’s assets pursuant to section 363 and preservation of claims against insiders in connection with the confirmed chapter 11 plan.*
- Represented Mubadala in connection with its acquisition of a substantial ownership of Anthropic pursuant to a section 363 bankruptcy sale in the chapter 11 cases of FTX.*
- Represented Transcendia Holdings, Inc. in connection with a comprehensive out-of-court restructuring with over $114 million of third-party new money investments and elimination of over $200 million of funded debt obligations.*
- Represented CX Reinsurance Company Limited in its chapter 15 recognition proceedings for its UK administration and scheme of arrangement.*
- Represented the RNN as DIP lender in connection with the chapter 11 cases of iMedia and its affiliates.*
- Represented Goldman Sachs in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of K&N Engineering that included restructuring of over $250 million of funded debt obligations.*
- Represented Goldman Sachs in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of PSS Industrial Group that included restructuring of over $300 million of funded debt obligations.*
- Represented Onex Partners and its portfolio company, SGS & Co, in connection with a comprehensive out of court recapitalization transaction.*
- Represented SPARC Group, a retail operator owned by Authentic Brands Group and Simon Property Group, in its going concern acquisition of the assets of Forever 21.*
- Represented Redbird Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of the XFL football league alongside Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Dany Garcia pursuant to a section 363 bankruptcy sale.*
- Represented Spanish Broadcasting System in its issuance of $310 million of senior secured notes and related out of court recapitalization transaction to repay its outstanding debt obligations, settle certain ongoing litigation claims and significantly reduced its outstanding preferred equity obligations.*
- Represented Centerbridge Partners in exit financing provided to iHeart Media as part of its chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.*
- Represented AEA Investors in connection with the chapter 11 cases of 24 Hour Fitness and its affiliates.*
- Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders of Phillips Pet Corporation in connection with a liability management transaction implement through a UCC strict foreclosure process.*
- Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Pioneer Energy and its affiliates.*
- Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with the chapter 11 cases of the Fuse Media and its affiliates, including equitization and reinstatement of certain prepetition debt obligations and funding of new debt obligations pursuant to a confirmed chapter 11 plan.*
- Represented Baupost Group and certain other stakeholders in connection with the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Garrett Motion and its affiliates.*
- Represented Goldman Sachs in connection with the restructuring of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.*
- Represented an ad hoc group of lenders in the chapter 9 bankruptcy proceedings of the City of Detroit.*
- Represented Spirit MTA as last out secured lenders in connection with the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of ShopKo and its affiliates.*
- Represented Centerbridge Partners in exit financing provided to Seadrill as part of its chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.*
- Represented the chapter 11 trustee in the administration of the chapter 11 cases of Liberty State Financial Holdings Corporations and its affiliates arising out of a Ponzi scheme that defrauded $520 million from nearly 2,000 investors.*
*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray