Corinne is co-head of the New York Office's restructuring and reorganization practice, and she also organizes the Firm's global restructuring practice, winning this year's TMA International Deal of the Year for the restructuring of Dana Corporation. Corinne also won AmLaw's Dealmaker of the Year for the restructuring of Federal Guaranty Ins. Co. She has 30 years of experience in business finance and restructuring with a focus on complex corporate reorganizations and distress acquisitions, whether court-supervised proceedings such as chapter 11 or restructuring or recapitalization out-of-court, including matters involving multijurisdictional and cross-border enterprises such as the restructuring of Chrysler; Bank of America's relationship with AIG, Metaldyne, Hagemeyer, and El Paso; and GM's relationship with Fiat.

Corinne leads the Firm's efforts on distress M&A, working with GM in acquiring Daewoo; Blackstone and Centerbridge on certain automotive acquisitions; WL Ross & Co. on International Steel Group, International Coal Group, International Textile Group, and Tong Yang Insurance; Continental Airlines on Avianca and others; Lazard Real Estate Funds on Atria and Fortress Home Builders; and IBM on Comdisco and Applied Digital Services, among others. She is also the featured "Distress M&A" columnist for the New York Law Journal.

Corinne has led large and complex reorganizations and restructurings for troubled issuers and enterprises, such as Tarragon, The Williams Communications Companies, Kaiser Aluminum, Olympia & York Companies, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Oceans Casino Cruise Lines, Sammi Atlas, Mesa Airlines, and West Air as well as for lenders and bondholders in Exide SA (Deutschemark bonds), Comdisco (bank lenders), VARIG airlines (lead lessor), the Iridium (bondholders' committee), Loews (bondholders), NorthPoint Communications (bondholders), Excite@Home (secured lenders), GST Communications (equipment lenders), Worldcom (Lucent), Telergy (mezzanine lenders), as well as loans, acquisitions, and workouts involving professional sports franchises, including the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Baltimore Ravens, the Islanders, the Minnesota Wilds, the Bobcats, the New Jersey Devils, and the Phoenix Coyotes.

Recognition and Professional Associations: Corinne is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in every edition since 1999. She is listed in New York Super Lawyers for 2008 as well as listed by the publication as one of the top 50 female lawyers for the Metro New York area. In 2008, she was honored with the "International Turnaround Company of the Year" Award and in 2006, she was named one of the 12 "Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers" by Turnarounds & Workouts.

She is also listed in The Lawdragon 500 with the highest ranking for leading lawyers, named as a leading lawyer in the 2008 edition of the IFLR1000, featured in The International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers 2006 and in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2006, identified as one of the "Top 100 Restructuring Professionals" in the U.S. (K&A Restructuring Register), as a leading individual in bankruptcy in Chambers Global — The World's Leading Lawyers (2009) and in Chambers USA (2008), and as a "highly recommended restructuring and insolvency practitioner in New York" by Global Counsel 3000 (2003-2004 edition) as well as by Who's Who in International Insolvency since 2000.

In addition, she is an official observer to the Drafting Committee on Business Trust Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee (chair of the Secured Creditors Committee and former chair of the Chapter 11 Subcommittee and the European Insolvency Task Force), INSOL, the Advisory Committee on Corporate and Securities Law for the Practising Law Institute, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee [BANCOR]). She is also a qualified and active mediator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts of the Southern District of New York.

Publications: Corinne authors a column on distress M&A for the New York Law Journal and has published articles through the American Bar Association, the Practising Law Institute, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Distressed Investor Conference, The Business Lawyer, the Journal of Securities/Commodities Regulation, The M&A Lawyer, and Corporate Reorganizations on distressed M&A, advising boards of troubled companies, investing in troubled companies, break-up fees and asset sales in chapter 11, trends in the telecommunications industry, cross-border restructuring, the new value exception to the absolute priority rule, and a guide to out-of-court restructuring. She is also a contributing author to the treatise on Reorganizing Failing Businesses, recently published by the American Bar Association.