Ruiqiao approaches all bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues with innovative solutions tailored to each client.
Overview
Ruiqiao's problem-solving and attention to detail pairs seamlessly with her experience in institutional securities and intellectual property protection. She is skilled at keeping clients' interests at the forefront and is a key legal resource in helping clients reach their ultimate goals.
She advises financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, debtors, trustees and receivers in complex bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency matters. Her practice focuses on Chapter 11 proceedings, bankruptcy-related litigation, out-of-court restructurings, and state court insolvency and receivership matters.
She has experience representing clients in all phases of insolvency-related disputes, including preference and fraudulent transfer litigation, contested matters, and issues involving the automatic stay. Her work includes strategic counseling, motion practice, discovery, negotiations, and courtroom advocacy, as well as advising clients in connection with Section 363 sales, plan confirmation, and other restructuring transactions.
Ruiqiao is fluent in Mandarin and has experience with international copyright applications overseas.
Experience
Represented a national telecommunications provider in Chapter 11 cases of its customers, defending against preference actions through ordinary course of business and new value analyses and achieving negotiated resolutions of disputed claims
Represented a multifamily property developer in Chapter 11 proceedings, drafting a joint disclosure statement and joint plan of reorganization
Represented the successful bidder in a Chapter 11 § 363 sale, including securing emergency relief through a temporary restraining order that preserved the transaction and protected the client’s acquisition rights
Represented a Chapter 11 trustee in ten jointly administered single-asset real estate cases, assisting with the § 363 sale process and confirmation of a joint Chapter 11 plan of reorganization
Assisted in representing a Chinese EB-5 agency seeking payment from a regional center in a mediation and helped the client reached a satisfactory settlement.
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- New York
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2020
- Georgetown Law Technology Review, Staff Editor
New York University, M.S., 2016
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, B.A., 2014
Languages
- Mandarin Chinese