Seantyel Hardy

Restructuring Litigation

• Rite Aid Corporation: Representing Rite Aid Corporation (“Rite Aid”) and its affiliates in litigation matters related to their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. As one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, Rite Aid employs over 45,000 people, including 6,100 pharmacists in 2,100 retail pharmacy locations across 17 states. Through Elixir, its pharmacy benefit management business, Rite Aid manages pharmacy benefits for more than one million members through accredited specialty and mail-order pharmacies. Following months of negotiations, Rite Aid entered Chapter 11 with access to approximately $3.45 billion in committed post-petition DIP financing provided by its existing bank lenders and an agreement in principle with a majority of its secured bondholders on the terms of a comprehensive restructuring.
• Celsius Network LLC: Representing Celsius Network LLC and its affiliates in litigation matters related to their Chapter 11 cases filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Celsius is one of the largest cryptocurrency-based finance platforms in the world and provides financial services to institutional, corporate, and retail clients across more than 100 countries.
• HONX, Inc.: Representing HONX, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hess Corporation) in its Chapter 11 case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Class Actions and Multi-District Litigation

• Counsel for herbicide manufacturer in state-court litigation alleging injuries resulting from alleged exposure to paraquat.

Government and Internal Investigations

• Counsel for major student lender/loan servicer in various state Attorney General litigation matters and government investigations.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2017

Law Clerk, Rogers Towers, 2016, 2017

• Advised on litigation and investigation strategy where the team secured a rare Texas ruling vacating an individual’s death sentence for ineffective assistance of his original trial counsel for their failure to investigate intellectual disability as a defense.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Seantyel:

• Co-authored an appellate brief on Fourth Amendment search issues and argued in 2017 Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces hearing at Cornell as amicus curiae through the court’s Project Outreach Program. She worked under the supervision of a Cornell Law School professor and member of the court’s bar.