Maeghan J. McLoughlin

Partner

Location
New York
Phone number
(212) 808-7911

Maeghan McLoughlin is a skilled bankruptcy attorney whose practice centers on protecting clients’ interests in large, complex commercial bankruptcy cases. She has extensive experience representing both official and ad hoc committees in Chapter 11 reorganizations involving companies with sophisticated capital structures. Maeghan is known for crafting practical, strategic solutions that guide clients through high-stakes insolvency matters with clarity and confidence.

Maeghan’s work spans the full spectrum of the bankruptcy process. She has represented a diverse range of stakeholders, including debtors-in-possession, Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 trustees, receivers, secured lenders, and landlords. Her industry experience is equally broad, with successful engagements across sectors such as communications and media, consumer products and retail, energy, real estate, and restaurants.

Maeghan has been consistently recognized as among The Best Lawyers in America​’s ​“Ones to Watch” for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

While in law school, Maeghan served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Burton R. Lifland, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable Joanna Seybert, United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

“Advocating for my clients’ business interests while helping them solve complex problems is what inspires my practice.”

Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors

23andMe; American Blue Ribbon; American Signature; American Tire Distributors; Amerimark Interactive; Edwards Mail Service; Forma Brands; FTD Companies, Inc.; Hooters of America; Houlihan’s; Independent Pet Partners; Innovative Mattress Solutions, LLC; John Varvatos; Krystal Company; Mattress Pal Holding, LLC; MediaMath; NPC International (Pizza Hut and Wendy’s franchisee); Packable Holdings; Peabody Energy; Portrait Innovations; Rite Aid; RMH Holdings (Applebee’s Franchisee); Serta Simmons Bedding; Soft Surroundings; The Limited; BowFlex; Thrasio; Restoration Forest; West Marine

Retail

Diesel USA, Inc.; Gymboree I and Gymboree II; Ignite Restaurant Group (Joe’s Crab Shack); Payless I and Payless II; rue21, Inc.; Sears Holding Corporation; Shopko; Southern Foods Group, LLC; Toys ​“R” Us; WeWork

Indenture Trustees

Airplanes Group; iHeart Media

Select Matters

Represented an energy corporation and four affiliated debtors in their chapter 11 cases. The debtors were engaged primarily in the business of managing various oil and gas-related interests, as well as providing environmental remediation management services. The companies had significant environmental remediation obligations and litigation liabilities.

Represented the official committee of unsecured creditors of one of the largest privately owned coal producers, and 153 of its subsidiaries, which collectively held $10.1 billion in prepetition debt.

The Best Lawyers in America© ​“Ones to Watch” (Woodward/White, Inc.), Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2021-2025.

Selected as one of the Irish Legal 100 by Irish America Magazine, 2025.

International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, New York Chapter, board member

American Bankruptcy Institute