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P. Miyoko Sato

Member / Chair, Bankruptcy, Health Law, Public Finance, Real Estate, and TechComm Division

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+1.617.348.1896

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Institutional investors seeking high-level guidance on investments in tax-exempt and taxable securities rely on Miyoko’s counsel — particularly on matters involving high-yield securities in both distressed debt and new money transactions. She represents indenture trustees, mutual fund companies, investment advisory firms, asset management companies, insurance companies, and other institutional investors with respect to defaults, workouts, restructurings, capital recoveries, and bankruptcies.

Miyoko’s experience encompasses corporate debt and project financings for higher education institutions, multifamily housing, student housing, military housing, health care, charter schools, private schools, tribal gaming, hotels, museums, and solid waste disposal facilities. She is a frequent speaker on distressed debt topics and high-yield investments.

Experience

  • Represented the bond trustees as the senior secured creditors owed in excess of $330 million in Louisiana and $185 million in Texas in bankruptcy proceedings involving German Pellets and its US subsidiaries. We handled issues including: negotiating post-petition financing for each facility; litigating issues involving the single largest off-take agreement with a UK company relating to the LA facility; litigating various issues against the unsecured creditors committee in each bankruptcy involving the rights, claims, and collateral of the bond trustee; negotiating proposed sale of Louisiana facility; and overseeing the various insolvency matters pending in Germany.
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News & Press

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Mintz is pleased to announce that 120 firm attorneys have been recognized as leaders by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
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BOSTON –Mintz announced today that 39 of its practices and 81 of its attorneys earned recognition in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA, a guide to the country’s leading law firms.
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Mintz continues its ongoing commitment to ensuring the firm is an equitable workplace, establishing a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committee that reports directly to the firm's main decision making body, the Policy Committee. The new Equity Advisory Council (EAC) will be responsible for driving equity for the firm’s attorneys, especially women, attorneys of color and LGBTQ+ attorneys.
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Events & Speaking

Moderator
Oct
24
2023

High Yield Municipal Bond Conference 2023

Smith's Research & Gradings

Greenwich, CT

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Moderator
Oct
19
2022

HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER STRESS

Smith's Research & Gradings High Yield Municipal Bond Coneference

Greenwich, CT

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Panelist
Nov
1
2021

When Colleges Fail Themselves: What Happens as a Turnaround Evolves Into a Wind Down

Connecticut Turnaround Management Association

Virtual Event

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Panelist
Oct
21
2021

High Yield Municipal Bond Conference

Smith's Research & Gradings

Greenwich, CT

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Panelist
Oct
6
2021

Higher Education Post-COVID: What Does It All Mean?

National Federation of Municipal Analysts

Virtual Event

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Panelist
Jun
24
2021

NACUA 2021 Virtual Conference

National Association of College & University Attorneys

Virtual Event

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Panelist
Nov
18
2020

What We've Learned about Learning During COVID

Smith's Research & Gradings

Online event

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Oct
2
2019

Smith's High Yield Municipal Bond Conference

Higher Education and ROI

Greenwich, CT

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Sep
14
2017

Higher Education in the Crosshairs

Hyatt Regency Greenwich, CT

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Jan
15
2016

Education Committee of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts Advanced Seminar on Higher Ed.

Education Committee of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts

Arizona Biltmore Phoenix, AZ

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Recognition & Awards

  • Chambers USA: Massachusetts (2022 - 2023)

  • Featured in Best Lawyers in America, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency & Reorganization Law and Public Finance Law (2023 - 2024)

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Involvement

  • Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
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P. Miyoko Sato

Member / Chair, Bankruptcy, Health Law, Public Finance, Real Estate, and TechComm Division

Boston