Jasmine Ball

Jasmine Ball is a corporate partner and a member of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s Restructuring Group in New York, and regularly represents debtors, investors, creditors and other parties in distressed mergers & acquisitions, workouts, debt and equity financing and refinancing, complex restructurings and chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. She is recognized by The Legal 500 US (2014-21) and IFLR 1000 (2020). Ms. Ball was among the winners of The M&A Advisor’s 2021 Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year (over $1B) for her role as counsel to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as co-sponsor of Neiman Marcus in its chapter 11 restructuring. She also was among the winners of Turnaround Management Association’s 2018 International Restructuring of the Year, Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards 2018 Corporate Turnaround of the Year and The M&A Advisor’s 2017 Restructuring Deal of the Year ($1B to $5B) for her role as aircraft counsel to CHC Group in its successful chapter 11 proceedings, as well as Turnaround Management Association’s 2016 Transaction of the Year: Large Company Award for her role in advising Altegrity in its chapter 11 proceedings and successful restructuring of more than $1.8 billion in funded indebtedness. Ms. Ball has been named a 2015 recipient of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business awards and recognized as an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer (2013) by Turnarounds & Workouts. She is an author of the Collier Business Workout Guide (Matthew Bender 2018) and a contributing author to the Collier Guide to Chapter 11: Key Topics and Selected Industries (Matthew Bender 2016). Ms. Ball is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is also a member of ABI, the Turnaround Management Association, the TMA New York Academic Relations Committee, the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Advisory Board of Practical Law Bankruptcy. In addition, she is a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council and is active in various Asian legal associations, including Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Asian American Bar Association activities. Ms. Ball received her B.S. in civil engineering and operations research in 1996 from Princeton University, with a certificate in engineering and management systems, and her J.D. in 1999 from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an executive editor of its Journal of International Law.