Ariella Mutchler is counsel in Ropes & Gray's tax practice. She focuses her practice on tax issues relating to high-yield debt issuances, syndicated credit facilities, capital financing structures, mezzanine and subordinated financings, and debt restructurings and workouts, both in the domestic and international context. Ariella also regularly advises investors and private fund managers on the formation and operation of private equity funds and credit funds, and investments therein, including advising fund of fund clients with respect to their investments in and alongside such funds.
Prior to joining the firm, Ariella interned for the Honorable George A. O’Toole Jr. in Boston, Massachusetts and, during law school, was a member of the Suffolk University Law Review.
Experience
- Representing Hooters of America, LLC, an iconic casual dining and sports entertainment chain, and its affiliated debtors in their pending chapter 11 cases involving the restructuring of approximately $380 million of funded debt. Hooters’ chapter 11 cases are the first whole business securitization filings of their kind and are supported by $40 million of debtor-in-possession financing and a Restructuring Support Agreement with near unanimous support from its key stakeholders.