Overview
Catherine Balido is an associate in the firm's Litigation Department and is based in the Dallas office. Her practice focuses on a wide range of complex commercial disputes.
Catherine received her law degree, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 2023. During law school, she served as a student attorney in the Domestic Violence Clinic and Women's Prison Project. She also served as an intern for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in 2021. Catherine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with a minor in Management & Leadership from Boston College in 2020, where she was captain of the Division I volleyball team. Catherine is admitted to practice law in New York and Washington D.C., with admission to Texas pending. She was formerly a Restructuring associate at the New York office of another international law firm.
Education
- Tulane University Law School, J.D. 2023
- Boston College, B.A. 2020
Representations
- Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based software developer, in its Chapter 11 cases, involving billions of dollars in claims asserted by the SEC. Terraform Labs developed and supported (i) software used to create and run the Terra blockchain network, a unique decentralized digital ledger of peer-to-peer transactions, and (ii) a suite of tools, protocols and applications that operate on the Terra blockchain.
- Mobileum, Inc., a leading global provider of telecom analytics and network solutions, in its prepackaged Chapter 11 cases with approximately $628 million in debt obligations.
- Carestream Dental, a global leader in digital transformation for the oral healthcare industry, with over $800 million in debt obligations, in connection with an out-of-court recapitalization transaction resulting in $525 million of new capital.
- The Special Master for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in connection with enforcing judgments for billions, designing a plan for the court supervised sale of the shares of PDV Holding, Inc., the parent company of CITGO Holding, Inc. CITGO is one of the largest refiners, transporters and marketers of motor fuels, petrochemicals and other industrial products in the United States.