Shipman Lawyers Katie LaManna and Marie Pollio Named to Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers”

Kathleen LaManna and Marie Pollio have both been named to Lawdragon’s 2024 list of "500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers.” Lawdragon’s annual list recognizes “lawyers who can make all the difference for a business, debtor or creditor and have done so time and time again. They reflect the move away from the more extreme boom and bust cycles of bankruptcy practice to a more sustained reality of leverage as a financial tool – wanted or not – throughout economic cycles in a global economy.” 38 percent of the 500 named lawyers are women. Katie and Marie are two of only five lawyers in Connecticut to receive this distinction, and they are the only women named in Connecticut.

Katie LaManna has extensive experience protecting and enforcing the rights of her creditor and corporate trust clients in defaults, commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters. She is a former chair of Shipman's Corporate Trust Practice and former co-chair of the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group. She is primarily focused on commercial defaults, including extensive experience in bankruptcy courts across the country, as well as in state, federal and appellate courts.

Marie Pollio is co-chair of Shipman's Finance Department and is a member of the firm's Management Committee. She provides strategic, practical advice to several national banks and other financial institutions in connection with their roles in complex financial and capital markets transactions and default and workout situations. Marie represents trustees, administrative agents and collateral agents in a variety of secured and unsecured financing transactions from deal origination through ongoing administration and into defaulted situations. She regularly advises on public offerings and privately placed corporate debt issuances, high-yield bonds issuances, syndicated loan transactions, cross-border financing, project financing, lease transactions, collateral agencies, and escrow and depositary relationships. Her practice is focused on some of the most complex, innovative financial products cutting-across all industries.  Marie works closely with the corporate trust and agency departments of her clients to help them meet the challenges of the modern, global economy.

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