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Catherine Balido

Associate, Complex Litigation

catherinebalido@paulhastings.com

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 is an active member of the bar and was recently elected to join the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court as an associate.

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, Washington D.C. and Texas. 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.