Jessica Metzger’s practice focuses on litigation and enforcement matters.

Jessica joined the firm in 2019. Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. During law school, she interned at the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and with the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice Law Reform Unit.

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Notable Experiences

  • Crédit Agricole group in litigation arising from the Madoff Ponzi scheme

  • A major financial institution in a confidential investigation relating to swap dealer compliance before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

  • A pool of individuals in connection with a record-keeping investigation conducted by the SEC of their employer, a major asset management firm

  • Certified class of over 3.5 million people in action against the City of New York and the NYPD for using and sharing information from sealed arrest records in violation of long-standing privacy laws

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Selected Activities

Articles Editor, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Columbia Law School

Publications

Americas Restructuring Review 2023, (co-authored with Richard Cooper, Lisa Schweitzer, and Richard Minott), Global Restructuring Review, December 2022

“Recent Developments in DIP Financing for International and Domestic Debtors,” (co-authored with Richard Cooper, Lisa Schweitzer, and Richard Minott), Practical Law, August 2022

Americas Restructuring Review 2022, (co-authored with Richard Cooper, Lisa Schweitzer, and Richard Minott), Global Restructuring Review, December 2021

“Supreme Court Holds Mere Retention of Property Does Not Violate Automatic Stay Under §362(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code,” (co-authored with Lisa M. Schweitzer, Sean A. O’Neal, Luke A. Barefoot, Jane VanLare and Thomas S. Kessler) Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memo, January 19, 2021

“Bankruptcy Court in Ultra Petroleum, on Remand, Finds Make-Whole Not Disallowed Under Bankruptcy Code,” (co-authors Lisa M. Schweitzer Sean A. O’Neal, Luke A. Barefoot, Jane VanLare and Michael Weinberg) Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memo, December 17, 2020

“Ultra Petroleum Revised: The Unsettled Law Surrounding Make-Whole Provisions” (co-authors Jane VanLare and Michael Weinberg), ABI Journal, March 2020.