Rosa J. Evergreen is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP in
its Bankruptcy and Restructuring group. She has experience in all aspects of bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, including complex chapter 11 cases, asset dispositions and bankruptcy litigation, as well as out-of-court restructurings and receivership cases. Ms. Evergreen has been involved in bankruptcy cases in a wide range of industries across the country, including financial services, retail, real estate, environmental, oil and gas, hospitality and health care, among others. She has been involved in a number of large bankruptcies, including AbitibiBowater, Adelphia, ASARCO, Borders, Circuit City, Extraction Oil & Gas, General Motors, LandAmerica, Lehman Brothers, Quebecor, Reader’s Digest, The PMI Group, Vertis and Windstream. Ms. Evergreen has acted on behalf of corporate debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bondholders, lenders, trade vendors and suppliers, landlords, contract counterparties, private equity funds, investors and asset-purchasers, and individuals and businesses involved in bankruptcy court litigation. She also has experience advising boards of directors and individual officers and directors in insolvency-related matters. Ms. Evergreen is active in many bankruptcy-related professional organizations, including ABI, the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and Turnaround Management Association. Ms. Evergreen has been recognized in Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, Washington,DC Super Lawyers and Washingtonian Magazine. She was named one of 12 “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers” by Turnarounds & Workouts for 2017, and she was named one of ABI’s “40 under 40” emerging leaders for 2018. In 2023, The Deal recognized her as being among the “Top Women in Deal making,” and in 2024, she edited Driving the Recovery Bus: Augmenting Creditor Recoveries Through Claims Brought by a Litigation Trustee, published by ABI. Ms. Evergreen maintains an active pro bono practice and received the DC Bar’s Laura N. Rinaldi Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award for 2018. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter, she was a law clerk to Hon. Stephen C. St. John of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ms. Evergreen received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her M.B.A. and J.D. from William & Mary.