Schuyler G. Carroll
Leading clients through complex bankruptcy proceedings and acting as a trusted adviser across various transactions and litigation-related matters, Schuyler Carroll helps develop strategic solutions for clients’ most pressing restructuring needs.
Schuyler provides innovative solutions and litigation support to clients on bankruptcy, restructuring and transactional matters, focusing primarily on Chapter 11, 15 and 7 proceedings, in addition to distressed acquisitions and creditors’ rights enforcement. He represents a wide range of clients—such as debtors, creditor committees, trade creditors, claims traders, indenture trustees, bondholders and secured and unsecured creditors—across the industries in which Manatt focuses, ranging from health care to real estate. He also regularly counsels on potential bankruptcy issues relating to other strategic transactions like investments, loans and mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Schuyler has extensive experience in state and federal courts litigating for creditors’ rights as well as navigating a wide range of related enforcement actions and fraud claims.
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Schuyler G. Carroll
Leading clients through complex bankruptcy proceedings and acting as a trusted adviser across various transactions and litigation-related matters, Schuyler Carroll helps develop strategic solutions for clients’ most pressing restructuring needs.
Schuyler provides innovative solutions and litigation support to clients on bankruptcy, restructuring and transactional matters, focusing primarily on Chapter 11, 15 and 7 proceedings, in addition to distressed acquisitions and creditors’ rights enforcement. He represents a wide range of clients—such as debtors, creditor committees, trade creditors, claims traders, indenture trustees, bondholders and secured and unsecured creditors—across the industries in which Manatt focuses, ranging from health care to real estate. He also regularly counsels on potential bankruptcy issues relating to other strategic transactions like investments, loans and mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Schuyler has extensive experience in state and federal courts litigating for creditors’ rights as well as navigating a wide range of related enforcement actions and fraud claims.
Education
St. John’s University School of Law, J.D., 1992
Binghamton University, B.A., 1989
Experience
Representing Skilled Nursing Facility in chapter 11 case, filed to facilitate 363 sale and transition of facility via appointment of Receiver, in Southern District of New York
Represented Owner of numerous Manhattan properties in Chapter 11 Cases, resulting in consensual plan confirmation and global settlement of multi-party disputes
Representing media company in connection with restructuring, necessitated by mass tort claims
Representing Lender in investigation and litigation seeking recovery of funds misappropriated by founder, resulting in settlement with directors and officers
Representing founder and former officer and director in connection with bankruptcy and defense of D&O litigation
Representing defendant in avoidance and fraud actions pursued by seeking recovery of crypto
Represented Owner & Operator of Skilled Nursing Facilities in Chapter 11 Cases, resulting in approved 363 sales and confirmed chapter 11 plan, in Eastern District of New York
Representing acquiror of distressed hotel
Representing company in connection with Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors
Represented owners of NY Real Estate in connection with mortgage loan restructurings
Representing Lender in connection with receivership of borrower
Represented acquiror of food service business from Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors
Representing Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors in connection with sale and wind down of
3d printing company
Represented Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors in connection with sale and wind down of developer and manufacturer of EV charging stations
Represented defendants in avoidance actions in various crypto related bankruptcies
Represented health insurer in connection with acquisition of chain of healthcare providers through 363 sale in bankruptcy court in Southern District of Florida
Represented health insurer in defending various litigation claims asserted by insolvency trustee
Representing vendors in numerous chapter 11 cases, including various media, power, pharma, hospitals and other healthcare provider debtors
Representing receiver in Canadian insolvency in connection with U.S. enforcement actions
Represented large public hospital network in connection with restructuring, resulting in turnaround and completion of significant acquisition
Representing public hospital in connection with potential restructuring
Representing liquidating trustee in chapter 11 wind down of former plant-based food companies, Ittella International, New Mexico Food Distributors and Tattooed Chef, in Central District of California
Representing liquidating trustee in chapter 11 wind down of former radio station operators, Rocking M Media, in District of Kansas, including in numerous appeals to the District Court and Tenth Circuit
Represented liquidating trustee in chapter 11 wind down in Central District of California
Representing litigation trustee in connection with numerous claims, including appeals pending in the Second Circuit
Represented lender in connection with workout of loan to power plant operator
Represented acquirors in several chapter 11 cases, including real estate, retail and life sciences companies
Represented foreign insolvency trustee in connection with chapter 15 proceedings arising from multi-national litigation over ownership of assets
Accomplishments
Speaker, “Creditor-on-Creditor Conflict Series - The Various Angles of Electronic Art's LBO and Associated Discounted Bond Tenders,” February, 2026.
Speaker, “First Brands Bankruptcy, Discussing the Legal Considerations Associated With the Credit Agreements and Restructuring,” October, 2025.
Speaker, “Chapter 22 and 33, Understanding Multiple Bankruptcy Filings,” October, 2025.
Speaker, “Double Dips & Triple Dips in Liability Management: Risks and Strategies,” September, 2025.
Speaker, “Intro to Liability Management Transactions,” July, 2025.
Speaker, “Serta Simmons Liability Management Transaction: Impacts of Recent Court Ruling,” February, 2025.
Speaker, “Structural Subordination and Overcollateralization,” December, 2024.
Speaker, “Liability Management Transactions - Covenant Risks,” October, 2024.
Speaker, “Creditor-on-Creditor Conflict Series: Assessing the Fight Over Robertshaw,” August 2024.
Speaker, “Bausch Health: The Allegedly Fraudulent Transfer Case, Patent Litigation and Securities Litigation,” August 2024.
Speaker, “Creditor-on-Creditor Conflict Series, ConvergeOne: Discussing the Implications of Its Bankruptcy Plan,” July 2024.
Speaker, “Steward Health Care Bankruptcy Update – Part Two: Continuing the Conversation,” Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, July 2024.
Speaker, “Steward Health Care and Hospital Bankruptcies,” May, 2024.
Speaker, “Retail Bankruptcy Cases: Assessing Recent Filings From Rue21, Sam Ash, JOANN, and Others,” May 2024.
Speaker, “PLI Commercial Real Estate Financing 2024: Distress and Defaults - Remember Bankruptcy in Commercial Real Estate Matters?” March 2024.
Speaker, “Spirit Airlines: Reviewing the Capital Structure and Credit Agreement Protections in Light of a Terminated Merger Agreement,” March 2024.
Speaker, “Purdue Pharma Third-Party Release Supreme Court Ruling: Assessing Its Legal Precedent Implications for the Loan Market,” December 2023.
Speaker, “AMC Entertainment: Assessing Credit Agreement Holes and Repurchase Rationales Within the Debt Capital Structure,” November 2023.
Speaker, “Creditor-on-Creditor Conflict Series: Assessing DQ Lists and Considerations for Secondary Trading and Priming Transactions,” October 2023.
Speaker, “Creditor-on-Creditor Conflict Series: Implications of the Serta Simmons Lawsuit and Bankruptcy Court Rulings,” July 2023.
Speaker, “Creditor-on-Creditor Conflict: Diebold Nixdorf Indenture - Complexities Between Consenting and Non-Consenting Bondholders and Lenders,” April 2023.
Speaker, “The Future of Real Estate,’ Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review (FESLR),” February 2022.
Speaker, “PLI Commercial Real Estate Financing – ‘Bankruptcy for Real Estate Finance Lawyers’,” 2020.
AV Preeminent Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
New York’s Top Rated Lawyers, The American Lawyer, 2013
Admitted to practice in the state of New York
Member, Enhance Diversity in the Profession Committee – New York City Bar Association
Member, Turnaround Management Association
Member, Diversity Champion Award Selection Committee – New York City Bar Association
Member, New York County Civil Court Independent Judicial Screening Panel
Member, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
Member, Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee
Member, Real Estate and Business Reorganization Committee
Quoted, “NY Nursing Home Gets Ch. 11 Sale OK, Averting Closure,” Law360, March 20, 2025
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Co-author, “,” New York Law Journal, June 7, 2024.
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