Ms. Cathy L. Reece

Cathy L. Reece chairs the Financial Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group at Fennemore Craig, P.C. in its Phoenix office. She has extensive experience in every aspect of corporate workouts and bankruptcies, and works with clients structuring complex transactions and purchasing dis- tressed assets. Ms. Reece has been selected the 2014 Legal Advisor of the Year and was honored at the 8th Annual M&A Turnaround and Distressed Investing Summit. She sits on the Board of Trustees and is a former vice president for the International Turnaround Management Association, having received its 2011 Outstanding Individual Contribution Award. In addition, she co-chaired the 2013 International TMA Distressed Investing Conference in Las Vegas. Ms. Reece is a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and is a member of the Board of Regents. She is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certificcation, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. Ms. Reece is listed as a "Litigation Star" in Benchmark Litigation and in the "Top 250 Women in Litigation." She represented the investors' committee in the Mortgages Ltd. bankruptcy case and currently represents ML Manager LLC in implementing the committee's plan of reorganization. She also represented Textron Financial in the ILX Resorts bankruptcy case and the City of Glendale, Arizona in the Coyotes hockey team bankruptcy case. Ms. Reece received her J.D. in 1979 from Arizona State University College of Law.