Maria Sountas-Argiropoulos

Ms. Sountas-Argiropoulos concentrates her practice on finance and other corporate transactions with a focus on restructuring and insolvency matters, both in and out of court. Ms. Sountas-Argiropoulos has extensive experience on secured financings and Article 9 of the UCC, leveraged acquisitions, private placements, syndications, mezzanine debt, asset-based loans, subscription lines and debtor-in-possession financings. Ms. Sountas-Argiropoulos also has extensive experience on advising clients on the enforcement of remedies, change of control transactions, and the acquisition, disposition and restructuring of distressed assets. She also has substantial experience on cross-border transactions, traditional merger, sale and acquisition transactions, and corporate governance matters.

Ms. Sountas-Argiropoulos represents private equity sponsors, corporations, funds, issuers, investors, agents and senior and subordinated lenders across a wide variety of sectors and industries including retail; hospitality and food service; healthcare; technology; media, communications and streaming; sports and entertainment; agriculture; oil and gas; and manufacturing.

On the lender and investor side, Ms. Sountas-Argiropoulos has represented private equity firms such as Cerberus Capital Management, Caspar Capital, New Heritage Capital, FLC Credit Partners, Z Capital Partners, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, Callidus Capital, large and middle-market financial institutions, investment banks (domestic and foreign), the largest provider of credit to American agriculture, the largest single-profession pension fund in Canada and various small, middle and large capital investment managers specializing in credit-related investments. On the borrower and equity sponsor side, Ms. Sountas-Argiropoulos has represented, among others, BLST/Bluestem, APX/Apex Parks, MBI, LRN Corporation, Ferrandino & Son, Garden Fresh, RM Holdco/Real Mex Restaurants, Mrs. Fields/Famous Brands, PacSun, Guess?, Yahoo!, Western Digital, Microsemi Corporation.