Alison Bauer is a Co-Chair of Foley Hoag's Bankruptcy & Restructuring practice, where she focuses on U.S. and international business reorganizations, creditors’ rights, distressed acquisitions and financing in court proceedings and out-of-court workouts. Alison represents debtors and creditors in chapter 7, 11 and 15 cases.

Alison regularly advises pension funds, private equity groups and other financial services institutions in distressed investments across a variety of industries including life sciences, retail, energy, oil and gas, cannabis, manufacturing, automotive, shipping, mining, , real estate, financial services, technology, hospitality, video gaming and entertainment. She also advises traditional and non-traditional lenders including debtor-in-possession lenders, asset-based lenders, other institutional lenders, and agents of lenders. Alison negotiates on behalf of strategic purchasers and sellers in distressed mergers and acquisitions in and out of bankruptcy. She has acted for official committees of creditors and general unsecured creditors in an array of matters, including landlords, vendors, and defendants to preference and fraudulent conveyance actions.

Alison counsels clients on how to mitigate bankruptcy related risks in vendor agreements and intellectual property transactions. She also opines on non-consolidation and true sales.

HONORS

• Turnaround Atlas Awards’ Corporate Turnaround of the Year (Small Mid Market) for Mill Road Capital, L.P., Rubio’s Restaurants prepackaged restructuring (2021)

• Turnaround Atlas Awards’ Cross Border Turnaround of the Year (Large Mid Market) for Fairfax Financial’s acquisition of the Canadian assets of Torys “R” US (2019)

• Turnaround Management Association’s Pro Bono Transaction Award for The Big Apple Circus Ltd. (2018)

• M&A Advisor’s Consumer Discretionary Deal Of The Year ($10mm To $25mm) Award for the restructuring of The Big Apple Circus Ltd.

INVOLVEMENT

• Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors

• American Bankruptcy Institute

• Turnaround Management Association

• International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

• The Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys

• NY State Bar Association

• NYC Bar Association

Speaking Engagements

• "Distressed M&A: Recent Trends & Issues," Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors 38th Annual Bankruptcy & Restructuring Conference (June 2022)

• “Managing Credit in a Downturn,” SBIA: Lunch & Learn Webinar Series (September 2020)

• “Getting Real,” Foley Hoag Video Podcast Series (May 2020)

• “Distressed M&A in 2020,” New England M&A Forum (February 2020)

• "Managing Credits through a Down Cycle,” SBIC Hot Topics (January 2020)

EDUCATION

• New York University School of Law, J.D., 1995

• Brown University, B.A., 1992

BAR ADMISSIONS

• New York

COURT ADMISSIONS

• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York