Jordana L. Renert

Jordana L. Renert is senior vice president of Distressed Debt/Specialty Corporate Trust at UMB Bank in New York, where she manages a portfolio of corporate and municipal workout transactions as part of a seasoned distressed‑debt specialty corporate trust team. She previously served as a partner with Lowenstein Sandler LLP and with ArentFox LLP, and was an associate at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP. Ms. Renert is experienced in financial restructurings, distressed situations, bankruptcy reorganization, and municipal and liquidation proceedings, having represented creditors’ committees, indenture trustees, agents and bondholders, as well as acquirors and investors in troubled and bankrupt companies. Her restructuring work spans oil & gas, energy, mining and exploration, publishing, manufacturing, retail and health care, and she has played lead roles in such major chapter 11 cases as PG&E Corp., R.E. Gas Development, Sabine Oil & Gas, SandRidge Energy, Magnum Hunter Resources, SquareTwo Financial Services and Cengage Learning. Ms. Renert is Education Director for ABI’s Business Reorganization Committee and is a member of the New York Institute of Credit and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. She also has participated in the Family Court Clinic Project, providing pro bono family court legal consultations. Ms. Renert received her B.S. in 2003 in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and her J.D. magna cum laude in 2007 from Brooklyn Law School, where she received the Professor Barry L. Zaretsky Bankruptcy Fellowship.