Cia Mackle’s practice has focused on a broad range of domestic and international business reorganization and restructuring matters, including the representation of debtors in possession, chapter 11 trustees, creditors’ committees, and other constituencies in the largest chapter 11 cases nationwide, including, most recently, Party City, Cineworld, Chinos Holdings (J. Crew), Neiman Marcus, and Ascena (Ann Taylor). She has over fifteen years’ experience representing committees, chapter 11 trustees, and liquidating trusts in financial fraud and Ponzi cases, including Professional Financial Investors, Inc. and Woodbridge Financial. Cia has prosecuted and defended numerous multimillion-dollar fraudulent transfer and breach-of-fiduciary-duty actions. With detailed knowledge of e-discovery issues as well as skill in the substantive and technological presentation of electronic evidence, she counsels clients on e-discovery issues and has managed dozens of large reviews or productions. Cia is perennially selected for inclusion by
Best Lawyers in America for her work in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation - Bankruptcy. She is a graduate of Duke University and received her J.D. from University of Southern California where she was a member of the Southern California Law Review.
Publications
•Sections 327 Through 330 Recent Developments in the Law of Employment and Compensation of Bankruptcy Professionals2021 Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 439, October 2021
News
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
August 15, 2024
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers in America
August 17, 2023
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in America
August 18, 2022
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones Wins Prestigious 2021 TMA Turnaround/Transaction of the Year Award
September 1, 2021
Court Approves Wilmington Diocese Plan
July 29, 2011
Events
For Debtors Facing Postpetition Interest and Makewhole Obligations, It 'Hertz so Good' . . . Unless They’re Solvent
AIRA 39th Annual Conference Newport Beach CA, June 9, 2023