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Alex Babcock

Associate

Alex focuses on bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and related issues.
He represents a range of debtors, creditors, and other parties in interest in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. He works with U.S.-based and international clients in a wide array of industries, including media, energy networks, metals, and digital currencies.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • A large copper mine, and its debtor affiliates, as counsel in their chapter 11 cases involving over $250 million in secured debt obligations.
  • Vice Group Holding Inc., and its debtor affiliates, as counsel in their chapter 11 cases involving approximately $834 million in funded debt obligations.
  • Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc., historically a New York Bitcoin mining company, in the restructuring of its debt and business, including the transfer of a significant portion of its mining rigs to NYDIG, its equipment lender, in exchange for significant debt reduction, a new financing agreement, and 5-year hosting arrangements with NYDIG.
  • Stoneway Capital Ltd., and its debtor affiliates, in their chapter 11 cases involving approximately $834 million of secured debt. Stoneway Capital is an Argentine holding company whose interests include building and operating power plants in Argentina.

Pro bono

  • Advising clients through a partnership with a non-profit’s name change services for low-income transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people.
  • Conducting document review for an international charity in capital punishment cases in the United States.

Qualifications

Admissions

Attorney-at-law, State of New York, US, 2022

Courts

United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 2022

Academic

JD, Columbia Law School, 2021

BA, magna cum laude, International Relations & History, Boston University, 2015

Languages

English
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.