George L. Santiago

George has represented:

• Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc., a global asset manager, against an Ad Hoc Group, an appliance-parts maker, and its private equity sponsor in a six-day trial in the Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court in a liability management dispute involving breaches of the relevant credit agreements and rightful control of the appliance-parts maker.
• Hedge fund lenders of $725 million to SunEdison, once the world’s largest renewable energy company, in actions against KPMG for misrepresentation of internal controls over financial reporting, and Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. for fraudulent inducement, which settled on the eve of trial.
• A group of hedge funds led by Sculptor Special Master Fund, Ltd. and Apollo Capital Management X, LLC, in an action against former directors and officers of Avaya, Inc. for fraudulent misrepresentations and omissions in connection with a $350 million incremental term loan.
• An excluded lender in the Del Monte Foods litigation in connection with a liability management exercise in Delaware Chancery Court.
• Vector Capital Management, L.P., an investment management firm, defending against purported express and implied breaches of a credit agreement brought by borrower Astra Acquisition Corp., a subsidiary of Anthology, Inc., arising from a $140 million syndicated revolving credit facility.
• Former directors and officers of Silvergate Capital Corporation in a securities class action brought by shareholders alleging that the company concealed material risks tied to its cryptocurrency banking operations, including servicing FTX and Alameda Research.
• Shareholders, in a claim under Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act, alleging misstatements in proxy materials.
• Deka Immobilien Investment, a real estate asset management company, in an action to recover $136 million paid on a guarantee after the borrower defaulted.
• A private equity firm in an arbitration against a top-ten accounting firm for professional malpractice in performing a quality of earnings analysis that directly translated into a massive overpayment for the medical practices at issue.
• Former executives and officers in a federal action against Nikko Asset Management and its CEO alleging a scheme to manipulate an employee stock option plan and deprive former employees of their stock option rights.

• Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in New York, 2022-25

• Champerty in New York: A Practical Guide to Navigating Judiciary Law Section 489 in Modern Commercial Transactions, New York Law Journal, (July 21, 2025) Read here.