JD, New York University School of Law, 2001
BA, University of Michigan, 1998

• New York State Bar

Energy Experience:

• Sponsors in negotiation of physically and financially-settled secured and unsecured commodity hedging and offtake arrangements, including wind and solar hedges, renewable energy credit (REC) agreements and heat rate call options, for multiple projects, including:
  • 264 MW wind energy project in Grant County, West Virginia
  • 345 MW wind energy project in Callahan County, Texas
  • 160 MW wind energy project in Tom Green County, Texas
  • 336 MW wind energy project in  Knox County, Texas
  • 476 MW solar energy project in Fort Bend County, Texas
• Sponsors in negotiation of project contracts, including energy management agreements.
• Hedge provider in negotiating proxy revenue swaps and proxy generation power purchase agreements for multiple wind projects throughout Texas.
• Project in the $2.3 billion debt financing for the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.
• Belltown Power in the sale of an approximately 180 MW development-stage solar power generation project located in Cameron County, Texas.
• Lenders in financing of 1,182 MW natural gas-fired generation project in Ohio. 
• Lenders in financing of 700 MW natural gas-fired generation project in Ohio.
• Lenders in connection with the Freeport LNG and Sabine Pass LNG liquefaction and export projects located in Freeport, Texas and Cameron Parish, Louisiana, respectively.
• Issuers in multiple securitizations of cash flows from distributed solar generation systems.

Energy Restructuring Experience:

• Lenders, in connection with restructuring the $2 billion financing of the 531 MW Alto Maipo Hydro Project in Chile, sponsored by AES Gener.
• Lenders, in connection with refinancing construction debt provided to portfolio of battery storage projects in Texas. 
• Lenders to various SunEdison projects in connection with the SunEdison bankruptcy cases.
• NextEra Energy in its attempted acquisition of Oncor Electric from chapter 11 debtor Energy Future Holdings.
• Gas supplier in Imerys Talc America bankruptcy cases and in Empire Generating bankruptcy cases. 

Restructuring Experience:

• Indenture trustee/member of the creditors' committee in the iHeartMedia bankruptcy cases, the CHC bankruptcy cases and the Savient Pharmaceuticals bankruptcy cases.
• Multiple customers in the MF Global bankruptcy cases and in the Refco bankruptcy cases. 
• Large insurance company in litigation relating to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy cases.
• Indenture trustee in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy cases.

• Acritas Star, Acritas, 2021
• IFLR1000 – United States, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, 2021
• Legal 500 US, recommended lawyer, Finance - Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate, The Legal 500, 2018
• New York Metro Super Lawyers, Energy and Resources, Thomson Reuters, 2018 - 2022
• "Rising Star," New York Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2015

• "Carbon Offsets as a Potential Source of Revenue", Project Finance Newswire, February 28, 2022.
• "How to Construct a 'Ring-Fence'", Project Finance Newswire, October 9, 2020
• Co-Author, "Rights to Block Bankruptcy Filings in Doubt", Project Finance Newswire, June 16, 2020
• "Second Circuit Provides Clear Guidance to Market on Scope of Permissible Acts under Trust Indenture Act Section 316(b)," Client Alert, January 30, 2017
• "Lessons from the SunEdison Bankruptcy", Norton Rose Fulbright "Currents" Podcast, December 14, 2016
• "The Trust Indenture Act: What is all the Fuss About?," International Restructuring NewsWire (Republished in Law360), Winter 2016
• “Federal Court Strikes Down Puerto Rico’s Recovery Act as Unconstitutional,” Client Alert, February 11, 2015
• "Puerto Rico Claims Authority to Nonconsensually Restructure Public Corporation Debt," Client Alert, July 7, 2014
• "Second Circuit Makes Challenging Implemented Plans More Difficult," International Restructuring NewsWire, March 2013
• "Can A Claims Purchaser Acquire Claims Free of Defects?," International Restructuring NewsWire, June 2012
• "Another Derivatives Dispute Resolved In Favor Of Lehman," Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, July/August 2011
• "Lehman Brothers: Limiting the Safe Harbors," (co-author), International Restructuring NewsWire, April 2010
• "Under'standing' a Creditor's Rights to Bring Actions Against Corporate Officers and Directors," International Restructuring NewsWire, September 2007
• "Recent Decision Puts Added Disclosure Pressure on Unofficial Committees," (co-author), International Restructuring NewsWire, September 2007
• "Are There Any Limits to Mandatory Subordination Under Section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code?," (co-author), Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, March 2007
• "Are Subsidiaries Really Bankruptcy Remote?," Project Finance NewsWire, (co-author), October 2005

• Safe-Harbor Issues After Lehman, Panel Member at American Bankruptcy Institute's 2018 Winter Leadership Conference.
• Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) Webinar, New York, NY, July 12, 2016
• "Tips for Trustees: Out of Court Restructuring and the Trust Indenture Act," New York, NY, March 9, 2016
• Puerto Rico's New Public Corporation Debt Enforcement and Recovery Act – Restructuring Legislation for Commonwealth Instrumentalities Webinar, New York, NY, July 28, 2014

• Ms. Rivera is a member of Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energies (WRISE) and the National Association of Women Lawyers.