Joanna’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring, with a particular emphasis on debtor representation in commercial bankruptcy cases across many industries, including crypto, energy, transportation, and hospitality. 

She also has experience in special investigations as well as bankruptcy litigation and appeals, including representing creditors’ committees.

Joanna draws on her prior experience as a tax associate at an international law firm where she focused on tax planning for complex transactions, including corporate restructurings, private and public mergers and acquisitions, private equity, as well as formation and operation of private investment funds, including those investing in energy and in digital assets and blockchain technologies. Joanna’s research on blockchain was cited by the European Parliament.

Joanna served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Danny J. Boggs on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation also on the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. She has also served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Beryl A. Howell, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Honors & Recognitions

Member of the Team Awarded "Mid-Size Company Turnaround/Transaction Team of the Year" in TMA Turnaround and Transaction of the Year Awards, 2024

Member of the Team Awarded M&A Advisors’ “Restructuring Deal of the Year (under $1B),” 2024

Member of the Team Awarded M&A Advisors’ “Financial Deal of the Year (under $1B),” 2024

Credentials

Education

LL.M., New York University School of Law, Taxation, 2019

M.Sc., University of Oxford, Nanotechnology, with distinction, 2019

Book Prize of St Catherine’s College

Advanced Certificate, Sciences Po & Université Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, Global Business Law and Governance, 2017

J.D., Columbia Law School, 2017

Fiske Stone Scholar
Edwin Parker Prize
Columbia Journal of European Law: Submissions Editor
Environmental Law Moot Court

B.A., Columbia University, Mathematics, summa cum laude, 2012

Honor Society
Dean’s List
Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal: Member of the Editorial Review Board
Columbia Science Review: Science Writer and Content Reviewer

Admissions

Texas

New York

District of Columbia

United States Tax Court

United States Court of International Trade

U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Texas

U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Texas

Courts of Appeals for the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and District of Columbia Circuits

Clerkships

  • Judicial law clerk to the Honorable Danny J. Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation also on the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, 2019-2020
  • Judicial intern to the Honorable Beryl A. Howell, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Languages

  • Polish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

Newsroom

Publications

  • Publication
  • The Impaired Insider Paradox and the § 1191(b) Solution (co-author), ABI Journal (July 2024), at 24
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  • The Flip Side of Privacy in the Cryptosphere: When Estate Wealth and Data Goes Crypto Forever, Duke Law Global Financial Markets Center: The FinReg Blog (Oct. 29, 2018)
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  • Regulation of Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings in Switzerland: Declared Vision of a ‘Crypto Nation’, 31 NYSBA International Law Practicum, no. 1, 2018, at 53
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  • Regulation of Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings in Switzerland: Declared Vision of a ‘Crypto Nation’, 31 NYSBA International Law Practicum, no. 1, 2018, at 53
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  • Weaponizing Finance: U.S. and European Options, Tools, and Policies, 23 Columbia Journal of European Law 441 (2017)
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  • Regulatory Issues and Challenges Presented by Virtual Currencies, Columbia Business Law Review (May 30, 2017)
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  • Blockchain in the U.S. Regulatory Setting: Evidentiary Use in Vermont, Delaware, and Elsewhere, Columbia Science & Technology Law Review (May 30, 2017)
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  • Sanctions, Real and Imaginary: Experiences with Russia in the Ukraine Crisis, 9 Amsterdam Law Forum, no. 2, May 2017, at 26
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  • European Perspectives on an Emergent Law of Robotics, Columbia Journal of European Law: Preliminary Reference (Apr. 4, 2017)
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  • No Prisoner’s Dilemma Here: A Fresh Look at Escapism from the Realities of International Taxation, Oxford Business Law Blog (Jan. 12, 2017)
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  • Tempted by an Apple: Europe’s Fall from Grace on Retroactive Taxation, Columbia Journal of European Law: Preliminary Reference (Nov. 10, 2016)
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  • Developing Blockchain Real-Time Clearing and Settlement in the EU, U.S., and Globally, Columbia Journal of European Law: Preliminary Reference (June 22, 2016)
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  • Disposing of Relics: Overt and Covert Blasphemy Statutes in Europe, Columbia Journal of European Law: Preliminary Reference (April 1, 2016)
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  • Legal Aspects of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis in Sustainable Urban Development, 14 Consilience 71-89 (No. 2, 2015)
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  • Crowdfunding Venture Capital in Europe, Columbia Journal of European Law: Preliminary Reference (October 1, 2015)
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Speaking Engagements

Affiliations

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), Commercial and Regulatory Law Committee Co-Chair

International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Houston Network Vice-Chair

Turnaround Management Association, Member; TMA Houston Chapter, 2023 Annual Dinner Committee Co-Chair

The Honorable Artur L. Moller – David B. Foltz Jr. American Inn of Court, Executive Board Member

The Garland R. Walker American Inn of Court, Barrister

Houston Bar Association, Member

Federal Bar Association, Member

Texas Bar College