Ms. Claudia Z. Springer

Claudia Z. Springer is a senior partner of Reed Smith LLP's Financial Industry Group in Philadelphia, where she practices in the area of Commercial Restructuring and Bankruptcy. She has more than 30 years of experience practicing in corporate restructurings, workouts and bankruptcy, and has represented every type of constituent in a troubled-company situation, including debtors, secured and unsecured lenders, DIP lenders, creditors' committees, lessors, lessees, trade creditors, shareholders, and members of creditors' committees. Her representative cases include the major constituents in GSE Environmen- tal, Inc., Boscov's Department Stores, Cal Dive International, Inc., aaiPharma, Inc., Nellson Neutra- ceuticals, Inc., Delta Airlines, Inc., VI Acquisition Corp., Allegheny Health and Education Research Foundation, St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers, National Steel, Inc., Orleans Homebuilders, LSP Energy Limited Partnership and SemCrude, L.P. Ms. Springer has written and lectured extensively on a variety of topics pertaining to bankruptcy and insolvency law and has been quoted in newspapers and periodicals. Since its initial publication in 2003, Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers has listed her as a leading insolvency/corporate recovery attorney, and Pennsylvania Law Weekly named her the top female bankruptcy attorney in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is also recognized as one of the nation's top restructuring and bankruptcy lawyers in America's Best Lawyers. Ms. Springer received her J.D. in 1980 from George Washington University National Law Center.