Corinne Ball has nearly 40 years of experience in business finance and restructuring, with a focus on complex corporate reorganizations and distressed acquisitions, both court-supervised and extra judicial, including matters involving multijurisdictional and cross-border enterprises. She co-leads the New York Office's Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice and leads the Firm's European Distress Investing and Alternative Capital Initiatives.
Corinne worked extensively on the City of Detroit restructuring, which followed her leading a team of attorneys representing Chrysler in its successful chapter 11 reorganization, which won the Investment Dealers' Digest Deal of the Year award for 2009. She also led a team of attorneys in the restructuring of FGIC and the sale of its portfolio to MBIA; the successful restructuring of Dana Corp., which emerged from bankruptcy in 2008; and has orchestrated many other reorganizations involving companies such as Oncor, Oi, OSX, US Manufacturing, Metaldyne, Axcelis Technologies, Kaiser Aluminum, Tarragon, and The Williams Communications Companies. In addition, she has counseled lenders and bondholders in the ABFS, Comdisco, Excite@Home, Exide SA, GST Communications, the Houston Sport's Authority and Jefferson County, European Wind Farms (Breeze) and the National Portuguese Railway, Loy Yang B, VARIG Airlines, and Worldcom restructurings, among others.
Corinne leads the Firm's distressed M&A efforts and is the featured "Distress M&A" columnist for the New York Law Journal. She won The National Law Journal's "Most Influential Lawyer of the Decade in Bankruptcy & Restructuring," Turnaround Management Association's "International Turnaround Company of the Year" Award, and was named "Dealmaker of the Year" by American Lawyer.
Corinne has served as a director of the American College of Bankruptcy and American Bankruptcy Institute and is a member of the International Institute on Insolvency.
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Altre Pubblicazioni
- February 24, 2011
Decision Should Promote Robust Bankruptcy Negotiation, New York Law Journal - December 23, 2010
Denial of Creditor Standing May Have Limited Impact, New York Law Journal - August 26, 2010
Auction Enhances Value in Baseball Bankruptcy, New York Law Journal - April 22, 2010
Circuit Ruling Broadens Scope of Statutory Mootness, New York Law Journal - February 25, 2010
Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions, New York Law Journal - December 2009
Extraordinary Year for BRR, New York Law Journal - October 22, 2009
Bankruptcy Judge Adopts Enterprise Approach to REITs, New York Law Journal, Corporate Update - October 22, 2009
Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions, New York Law Journal - 2009
Advice for Corporate Directors, Mergers and Acquisitions 2010: Trends and Developments, Practising L. Institute - 2003
Bidding Procedures and Sale Orders: The Keys to Distress M&A, American Law Institute-American Bar Association Publication (SJ025 ALI-ABA 411)
- April 29, 2015
Turmoil in the Oil Patch: Risks and Opportunities for Oil & Gas Investors and Companies - April 27-28, 2015
PLI's Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2015: Current Developments - January 16-17, 2014
PLI's Mergers & Acquisitions 2014: Trends and Developments - April 29-30, 2013
PLI’s Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2013: Current Developments - January 17-18, 2013
PLI’s Mergers & Acquisitions 2013: Trends and Development - July 25, 2012
Jones Day: Global Viewpoints - April 12-13, 2012
PLI’s Bankruptcy & Reorganization 2012: Current Developments - January 5-6, 2012
PLI’s Mergers and Acquisitions 2012: Trends and Development - April 14-15, 2011
PLI’s Bankruptcy and Reorganizations: Current Developments 2011 - January 10-11, 2011
PLI’s Mergers & Acquisitions 2011: Trends and Developments - April 19-20, 2010
Bankruptcy & Reorganizations: Current Developments 2010 - February 2, 2010
Doing Distressed Deals: Outlook for 2010 and Welcome Reception for New West Coast Restructuring Members - January 11-12, 2010
Mergers & Acquisitions 2010: Trends and Developments - October 6-8, 2009
Chrysler Restructuring Roadshow - April 20-21, 2009
31st Annual Current Developments in Bankruptcy & Reorganization - January 28, 2009
Institutional Investor Summit 2009 - January 22-23, 2009
Mergers & Acquisitions 2009: Trends and Developments - November 18, 2008
The Subprime Crisis: Restructuring in the Financial Sector and Securities Litigation in the United States and Europe - April 7-8, 2008
30th Annual Current Developments in Bankruptcy & Reorganization - January 24, 2008
2008 TMA Distressed Investing Conference - January 22-23, 2008
Mergers & Acquisitions 2008: Trends and Developments - September 18-20, 2007
Automotive Industry Restructuring Finance Summit - January 22-23, 2007
A Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions, Practising Law institute - November 3, 2006
Debtor-in-Possession Financing in the Auto Industry: Global Sourcing, 'Just in Time' Inventory and OEM Customers, moderator, 80th Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges - September 15, 2006
Buying a Distressed or Bankrupt Company, 22nd Annual Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, American Law Institute and American Bar Association - April 6, 2006
Negotiating Cash Collateral Orders in the Era of Ad Hoc Committees, American Bar Assn. - January 23, 2006
Advising the Board of Directors in the Context of Mergers & Acquisitions, Practising Law Institute seminar - September 15-16, 2005
Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, 21st Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Course of Study - May 9, 2005
Can They Really Do That??? The Enforceability and Protection of NOL Injunctions and Third Party Releases in Reorganization Plans - March 4, 2005
Buying a Distressed or Bankrupt Company - January 11, 2005
Advising the Board of Directors - April 21, 2004
Distress Investing and Developments in Corporate Restructuring in the United States and Europe - April 16, 2004
The Relationship between Turnaround Management and Corporate Governance of a Chapter 11 Debtor and Asset Sales under Section 363 versus Sales under a Chapter 11 Plan - March 4, 2004
Buying a Distressed or Bankrupt Company - January 12, 2004
A Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions 2004 - December 4-5, 2003
Critical Vendor Motions in the Aftermath of the Kmart Decision - November 7, 2003
Distressed M&A Restructuring - October 11, 2003
The Legal Landscape: Hot Topics and Current Trends in Restructuring and Bankruptcy - September 19, 2003
The New Enterprise Act: Has the UK finally embraced Chapter 11? - October 2002
INSOL Annual Conference - Asia Pacific Rim
- The George Washington University (J.D. with honors 1978); Williams College (B.A. magna cum laude 1975; Phi Beta Kappa)
- New York, U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, New York Law Journal
2016 Winner, G.W. University Distinguished Alumni Award
2015 Winner, St. Francis Service Award for her work with Catholic Charities of New York, where she serves as a trustee for the Cardinals Committee on Charity
M&A Advisor: Hall of Fame member and Leadership Award winner; 2013 Winner, Outstanding Achievements in Restructuring
2012 Winner, "Woman of the Year in Restructuring," IWIRC
2011 Human Relations Award, Anti-Defamation League
Repeatedly recognized in:
Chambers Global and Chambers USA (leader, tier one)
K&A Restructuring Register
Legal 500 US
Best Lawyers in America (since 1995)
Super Lawyers: "Top 50 Women Lawyers in NY" (since 2007) and "Top 100"
Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
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