Caplin & Drysdale Promotes Four Attorneys to Of Counsel

Caplin & Drysdale is pleased to announce the promotion of Nathaniel Miller, Amanda Reed, Lucas Self, and Katy Zendeh to Of Counsel effective January 1, 2025. Congratulations Nathaniel, Amanda, Lucas, and Katy!

Nathaniel Miller is part of the Bankruptcy and Complex Litigation practice groups.  His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on creditors’ rights and bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Miller has considerable experience representing tort creditors’ committees and significant tort creditors in major Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, including those of Aldrich Pump LLC and Murray Boiler LLC; DBMP LLC; Hopeman Brothers, Inc.; AIO U.S., Inc.; Whittaker, Clark & Daniels, Inc.; Kaiser Gypsum Co. and Hanson Permanente Cement; Mallinckrodt plc; and Purdue Pharma L.P.  Mr. Miller also has represented clients in commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels of state and federal courts, as well as in commercial arbitrations.

Amanda Reed is part off in Caplin & Drysdale's Exempt Organizations, Political Law, and Corporate Law practice groups. Ms. Reed represents private foundations, public charities, and other tax-exempt organizations on a range of tax, formation, and operational issues, including: advising on domestic and international grantmaking and programmatic initiatives; counseling on IRS rules for advocacy, lobbying, and political campaign activities; structuring affiliated entity relationships and transactions; guiding organizations through a variety of transactions including program and mission-related investments, joint ventures, mergers, dissolutions, intellectual property licensing, and loans; assisting nonprofits with board governance structures and best practices; and helping organizations to establish and maintain tax-exempt status. Ms. Reed rejoined Caplin & Drysdale in 2022 after working as in-house counsel to one of the nation’s largest and most prominent private foundations.

Lucas Self joined Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington, D.C. office in the firm’s Complex Litigation and Bankruptcy practice groups in 2020. Mr. Self advises individuals, corporations, and nonprofits on an array of litigation and bankruptcy matters. His practice centers on protecting the rights and interests of creditors in Chapter 11 cases and other bankruptcy cases involving substantial liabilities. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Self practiced litigation and bankruptcy at a national law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana. From 2016 to 2017, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and from 2017 to 2018 as a law clerk to the Honorable Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. While in law school, Mr. Self was as a Board Member and Production Editor for the Louisiana Law Review.

Katy Zendeh is part of Caplin & Drysdale’s Complex Litigation and Bankruptcy practice groups. Ms. Zendeh represents both individual and corporate clients in state and federal matters across the country. Her practice centers around complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on bankruptcy litigation. In particular, she works to protect the rights and interests of creditors, tort claimants, and official creditors’ committees in mass tort bankruptcies and other bankruptcy cases involving substantial liabilities. For example, she has played a key role in: representing an official creditors’ committee in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy resulting in an agreed plan of confirmation; deposing the Chief Transformation Officer of a debtor pharmaceutical company; opposing debtors’ preliminary injunction motions on behalf of tort claimants and official creditors’ committees in several bankruptcies; and representing an official creditors’ committee in a successful mediation with the debtor.