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Katilyn M. Hollowell

Senior Associate

"I am focused and persistent when it comes to realizing every client’s right end game."

Katie Hollowell advises on all types of insolvency matters, including general bankruptcy and business reorganizations, loan negotiations, workouts, collateral review, commercial collections, and foreclosures. She also works on client teams that defend state and federal court general commercial litigation.

Katie represents lenders and borrowers in financing negotiations and distressed debt workouts for secured financing ranging from $100,000 to $100 million and involving auto sales and finance, construction, consumer finance, energy, equipment leasing, healthcare, offshore production, offshore services, real estate development, and retail. She guides lenders and debt purchasers, as well as national counsel, through legal due diligence, collateral review, and opinion letters.

Katie also advocates the rights of multinational and local energy companies, service companies, and contractors involved in insolvency and other bankruptcy matters pertaining to their contractors, operators, partners, vendors, predecessors, and successors in title. She advocates the rights of banks, commercial finance and other secured lenders, and servicers in bankruptcy cases across Louisiana. Katie is valued for safeguarding the rights of secured and unsecured creditors in foreclosure and collections proceedings in state and federal courts.

A compassionate strategic thinker and problem-solver with an energetic work ethic, Katie brings focused analytical skills and persuasive storytelling to help her achieve each client’s business goals for any given matter. She is most appreciated for her ability to keep complex, multilevel, and fast-paced matters on track and moving toward resolution. Notably, Katie finds that frequent communication with the client about how a case is progressing is imperative to efficient and streamlined decision-making that conserves both time and resources.

Representative Experience Loan Negotiations, Workout, and Collateral Review
  • Represents lenders and borrowers in financing negotiations and distressed debt workouts for secured financing ranging from $100,000 to $100,000,000. Recent workouts include borrowers in the following sectors: auto sales and finance, construction, consumer finance, energy, equipment leasing, healthcare, offshore production, offshore services, real estate development, and retail
  • Assists lenders, debt purchasers, and national counsel with legal due diligence, collateral review, and opinion letters
General Bankruptcy
  • Regularly advises multinational and local energy companies, service companies, and contractors on bankruptcy matters involving their contractors, operators, partners, vendors, and their predecessors and successors in title
  • Regularly represents banks, commercial finance companies, other secured lenders, and servicers in bankruptcy cases in Louisiana
Commercial Litigation
  • Regularly represents secured and unsecured creditors in foreclosure and collections proceedings in state and federal courts
  • Regularly represents oil and gas companies in litigation concerning historical contamination claims to property in Louisiana
Education
  • LSU Law Center, J.D./D.C.L., summa cum laude, 2017
    • Member, Order of the Coif
    • Production Editor, Louisiana Law Review
    • LSU Law Ambassador
  • LSU, B.A., 2014
Admissions
  • Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Memberships
  • Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Member, Baton Rouge Bar Association
  • Member, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (Louisiana Chapter)
  • Member, Judge Jerry A. Brown Louisiana Bankruptcy American Inn of Court
  • Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Member, Turnaround Management Association
  • Member, Women’s Energy Network (South Louisiana Chapter)
  • 2023 Pathfinder, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
Recognition
  • "Rising Star," Louisiana Super Lawyers, 2024-2025
Community Service
  • Co-Chair, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (Louisiana Chapter)
  • Board Member, UpLIFTD
Super Lawyers
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