Heidi J. Sorvino, formerly of Hodgson Russ LLP, has joined LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Area Team. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Manhattan office.
Sorvino represents business entities, debtors, and secured creditors including banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, creditors’ committees, distressed-debt investors, and indenture trustees in complex bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, corporate restructurings, and related litigation. Her extensive experience includes Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases; non-bankruptcy workouts; the acquisition, financing, and disposition of real estate; cash collateral orders; debtor-in-possession financing; automatic stay relief; plan negotiations; sales of assets; preference and fraudulent conveyance actions; and trading in claims.
Sorvino is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and the Executive Women’s Golf Association. She is a graduate of St. John’s University (J.D), New York University (M.S.W.) and Hamilton College (B.A.). Sorvino is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.
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