Ms. Katherine R. Catanese

Katherine R. Catanese is an equity partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group of Foley & Lardner LLP in New York, where she assists troubled companies facing financial distress and restructuring. She assists troubled companies facing critical points in their businesses related to financial distress and restructuring, which can include maximizing the value of their assets through both in- and out-of-court asset sales. Ms. Catanese also focuses her practice on helping creditors solve problems related to all as- pects of distressed debt, which has included representing debtors, lenders and strategic buyers in Article 9 sales and assignments for the benefit of creditors. She also represents investors and other parties in fraud-based litigation arising in the insolvency space, including various cross-border fraud matters and representation of investors and managers in hedge funds both onshore and offshore in bankruptcy ligation including involuntary bankruptcies and chapter 15 bankruptcies. Ms. Catanese also has experience in bankruptcy appeals and focuses on for-profit schools and higher education restructuring generally, with an emphasis on fraud investigation and intervention. To that end, she is building a practice focusing on representing higher education institutions, lenders and private-equity funds in all forms of litigation related to their business and financial restructuring of these schools. In addition, Ms. Catanese represents banks and trustees of bank holding companies, including litigation related to procurement of tax refunds and disputes with the FDIC over refund ownership. She further emphasizes her practice on representation of creditors, representations of creditors? committees and indenture trustee representation, including the representation of U.S. Bank and Wilmington Trust as the indenture trustee for certain bonds in the American Airlines, Samson Resources (oil and gas) and Peabody Energy (coal) bankruptcies. Ms. Catanese has experience in the representation of trustees regarding resolution and objection to bankruptcy claims, the pursuit of fraudulent transfer and preference actions, and litigation related to bad-faith bankruptcy filings, Ponzi schemes and § 363 sales. She also has particular knowledge of individual and business chapter 7s and individual chapter 11s, and she is experienced with e-discovery in bankruptcy cases. Ms. Catanese is a member of the Bankruptcy and Health Care Restructuring sub-team at Foley. She also is the women?s network coordinator for Foley?s Women?s Network in the New York office. Prior to joining Foley, Ms. Catanese was an associate at Allard & Fish, P.C., where she represented a chapter 7 trustee and corporate debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, and trustees in all aspects of bankruptcy litigation. She received her B.A. in psychology summa cum laude in 2001 and her J.D. cum laude in 2004 from Michigan State University. During law school, she clerked for Hon. David L. Jordon.