Courina Yulisa
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Courina Yulisa

Associate
yulisa.courina@dorsey.com

Overview

Courina effectively represents clients in a myriad of restructuring, consumer, and project financing matters and transactions.

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

CFPB's Earned Wage Access Rule Marks Regulatory Shift
All That Glitters is Not Gold: Gold Mines, Refineries, and the Law of Bailment
The Name Lives On: the eCommerce Rebirth of Brick and Mortar Brands, 41 Licensing J. 26
The Name Lives On: the eCommerce Rebirth of Brick and Mortar Brands

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
  • 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

Accolades

  • 2023 Cohort of Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Sources of Success Program

Diversity Inclusion Recognition 2023 Diversity & Inclusion 50+ Hours 2022

  • Contributed more than 50+ Diversity hours, 2022-2023

     Contributed 50+ Pro Bono Hours in 2021

  • Contributed more than 50 Challenge pro bono hours, 2021
Courina Yulisa