Professional Bio:

Joanna Diane Caytas is an attorney in the Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights section at Porter Hedges LLP.  Her practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring, with a particular emphasis on debtor representation in complex chapter 11 and chapter 15 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.

She serves as Vice Chair of IWIRC Houston Network, Co-Chair of the ABI Commercial and Regulatory Law Committee, executive board member of The Honorable Artur L. Moller – David B. Foltz Jr. American Inn of Court, and is a member of the TMA and INSOL.

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.

Joanna holds degrees from Columbia University (B.A., mathematics, summa cum laude), Columbia Law School (J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Edwin Parker Prize), New York University School of Law (LL.M., Taxation), University of Oxford (M.Sc., Nanotechnology, distinction), and an Advanced Certificate in Global Business Law and Governance obtained at Sciences Po and University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne.