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.
Distinctions
· 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)
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
· Turnaround Management Association
Community Involvement
· 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
Experience
Bankruptcies of New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) Participants
Major Airline Bankruptcies
Trustee for $173 Million in Default for Electrical Systems Corporation Bankruptcy
Preference and Avoidance Actions
Investment Company Bankruptcy
Publications
March 1, 2011, Commercial Leases and Bankruptcy--Will the Rent Get Paid?
News
April 2011, 35 Shipman & Goodwin Attorneys Named a "Top Lawyer" in Hartford County
July 27, 2009, Katie LaManna and Gabe Jiran Named to the Hartford Business Journal's 40 Under Forty List
Events
January 27, 2006, Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005