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Morgan’s practice focuses on corporate bankruptcy and creditor’s rights in complex chapter 11 proceedings. Morgan primarily practices in the bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware. She has broad experience representing debtors, creditors’ committees, lenders, bondholders, secured and unsecured creditors, liquidation trustees, landlords, asset-purchasers, and other interested entities in various bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation proceedings.

Her bankruptcy work includes all matters of litigation and transactions, including involuntary petitions, avoidance actions, relief-from-stay proceedings, trustee motions, sale and purchase of assets, executory contracts and lease issues, post-petition financing, disclosure statements, plan confirmation, and representing liquidating trustees and plan administrators in the wind-down of estates. Morgan also has expertise with cross-border insolvency proceedings, specifically with respect to the consummation of large cross-border asset sales.

Morgan received her JD, magna cum laude, from the Widener University School of Law in 2009.

Cate has written extensively about Puerto Rico's debt since March 2012 when she predicted a future insolvency for the Commonwealth. She holds two U.S. patents and has extensive experience lobbying Congress and advocating at the SEC. She created and led an open source project for the staff of the U.S. House and Senate as they researched and wrote Dodd Frank.