Katie LaManna is chair of the firm's Corporate Trust practice group. She regularly represents her clients in commercial litigation, defaults, workouts, contract disputes, and other creditors' rights matters. She has extensive experience representing banks in their role as trustee, as fiduciaries for public and private debt, in connection with defaulted secured and unsecured financings and leveraged leases. She has been actively involved in some of the largest Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States and represents creditors in bankruptcy reorganizations, liquidations and workouts in Connecticut, New York, Delaware and throughout the country. Katie has represented clients in major telecommunications, retail, health care, energy, and airline bankruptcies, including most recently the Delta Air Lines, Inc. and FLYi, Inc./Independence Air, Inc. bankruptcies. She has represented her clients on numerous creditors' committees and has been actively involved in all stages of the Chapter 11 process, including the successful enforcement of claims and negotiation of plans of reorganization and liquidation through confirmation.

Katie also regularly represents clients in more general state and federal civil litigation matters relating to contract disputes, business litigation and commercial defaults, as well as in preference and avoidance actions in bankruptcy courts.

Katie LaManna is chair of the firm's Corporate Trust practice group. She regularly represents her clients in commercial litigation, defaults, workouts, contract disputes, and other creditors' rights matters. She has extensive experience representing banks in their role as trustee, as fiduciaries for public and private debt, in connection with defaulted secured and unsecured financings and leveraged leases. She has been actively involved in some of the largest Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States and represents creditors in bankruptcy reorganizations, liquidations and workouts in Connecticut, New York, Delaware and throughout the country. Katie has represented clients in major telecommunications, retail, health care, energy, and airline bankruptcies, including most recently the Delta Air Lines, Inc. and FLYi, Inc./Independence Air, Inc. bankruptcies. She has represented her clients on numerous creditors' committees and has been actively involved in all stages of the Chapter 11 process, including the successful enforcement of claims and negotiation of plans of reorganization and liquidation through confirmation.

Katie also regularly represents clients in more general state and federal civil litigation matters relating to contract disputes, business litigation and commercial defaults, as well as in preference and avoidance actions in bankruptcy courts.

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 1995

Boston College, B.A., 1992, cum laude

Bar Admissions

Connecticut

Court Admissions

United States District Court District of Connecticut

United States District Court Southern District of New York

United States District Court Eastern District of New York

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Distinctions

* Associate Editor, University of Connecticut Insurance Law Review (1994-1995)

* Commissioner, Connecticut Superior Court Small Claims Division (1998-2003)

Teaching Positions

* University of Connecticut School of Law: Former Mentor, Mock Trial Course Assistant

Professional Affiliations

* American Bar Association: Litigation Section; Business Litigation Section; Commercial Litigation Section

* Connecticut Bar Association

* American Bankruptcy Institute

* Hartford Association of Women Attorneys

* International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation

Community Involvement

* Leadership Greater Hartford: Quest Class (2005)

* The Cove Center for Grieving Children: Board of Directors (2004- Present)

* Fred D. Wish Volunteer Tutor Program

* Glastonbury Hartwell Girls Soccer Coach