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 with 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 the Mesa Air Group, Inc., 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 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.
- AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- 40 Under Forty, Hartford Business Journal (2009)
- Commissioner, Connecticut Superior Court Small Claims Division (1998-2003)
- Associate Editor, University of Connecticut Insurance Law Review (1994-1995)
- 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
- Turnaround Management Association
- Leadership Greater Hartford: Quest Class (2005)
- The Cove Center for Grieving Children: Board of Directors (2004- 2009); Advisory Board (2010 - Present)
- Fred D. Wish Volunteer Tutor Program
- Glastonbury Hartwell Girls Soccer Coach
- Glastonbury Basketball Association Girls Youth Coach
Bankruptcies of New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) Participants
Represented regional independent system operator in bankruptcy proceeding of various New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) Participants, including Enron, Mirant, USGen, and NRG. Negotiated, in conjunction with NEPOOL representatives, with the Debtor and its legal representatives to successfully resolve post-petition contractual obligations, pursuit of claims, cure of defaults and compliance with adequate assurance and all NEPOOL, ISO Tariff, and other contractual agreements as well as regulatory requirements.
Major Airline Bankruptcies
In several major U.S. airline Chapter 11 cases, represented national bank as trustee in connection with the financing of a significant number of debtors’ aircraft. Scope of representation included, among other things, representation of client as a member of unsecured creditors’ committees, prosecution and liquidation of billions of dollars of secured and unsecured claims to maximize recovery to bondholders, negotiation of critical legal issues and documentation concerning the restructuring of aircraft leases, loans and securitizations, and the management, foreclosure and sale of several aircraft.