Overview
Courina leverages her litigation, transactional, and regulatory compliance experience to represent debtors, creditors, potential bidders, and other third parties in complex bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Courina’s prior restructuring work includes representing landlords in WeWork’s chapter 11 cases, payment processors in various airline bankruptcies, and an indenture trustee in the iMedia Brands chapter 11 cases.
In her finance practice, Courina regularly represents corporate trust and banking institutions as indenture trustees and agents in connection with domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions, Courina has represented Wilmington Trust and U.S. Bank in relation to project financing transactions.
Courina’s regulatory and compliance practice includes advising start-up and Fortune 500 companies on consumer financial and credit products. She provides representation on earned wage access products and helps companies navigate through the evolving regulatory space.
Courina previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Elizabeth S. Stong, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York. She has frequently appeared in the bankruptcy courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.
Education & Admissions
Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 2008)
University of California, Berkeley (Dual B.A. in Rhetoric and German, 2004)
Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Languages
- English, Indonesian, German, Malay
Clerkships
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York, Honorable Elizabeth S. Stong, 2019-2020
News & Resources
Articles
Events & Speaking Engagements
Select Presentations
- Covid-19 and Global Financial Distress: Where Do We Go from Here? AABANY Fall Conference 2020, September 26, 2020
Industries & Practices
Banking & Financial Institutions
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- Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
- Commercial Litigation
- Consumer Financial Services
- Corporate Trust Services
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
Professional & Civic
Professional Achievements
- 2023-2024 Sources of Success Cohort, Minority Corporate Counsel Association
- Member and former Co-Chair, Bankruptcy and Restructuring Committee, Asian American Bar Association of New York
- Chair, Network of Women (NOW) Committee, Turnaround Management Association
- Member, Bankruptcy Committee, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation