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Ms. Heather K. Lennox

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Ms. Heather K. Lennox

Heather K. Lennox is partner-in-charge in the Cleveland office of Jones Day, where she has played a leading role in representing debtors and potential debtors, creditors? committees, pre-petition secured lenders, bank groups, DIP lenders, credit card processors and other significant creditors in many of the nation?s largest in- and out-of-court corporate and municipal restructurings. She counsels clients in fraudulent conveyance, illegal dividend, fiduciary duty and piercing-the-corporate-veil issues, as well as mass-tort issues in bankruptcy. Ms. Lennox has represented entities in the structuring and consummation of spin-offs, distressed sales and acquisitions, ring-fencing transactions, and other out-of-court restructuring transactions, including in the cases of Peabody Energy Corp., the City of Detroit, Copper-weld Corp., CSC Industries, Dana Corp., Fruehauf Trailer Corp., Great American Communications Co.(a prepackaged case), Hostess Brands, Inc., LTV Steel Co., Metaldyne Corp., Oglebay Norton Co. andSt. Mary?s of the Woods (a CCRC) as debtors? counsel, and significant creditors in the Delta Airlines,Forum Health, HomePlace Stores, Northwest Airlines, Pittsburgh Penguins, R.H. Macy, Southern AirTransport, United Airlines, US Airways and Wornick Co. bankruptcies. Ms. Lennox has co authored bankruptcy-related articles published in The Business Lawyer and the Journal of Bankruptcy Law andPractice. She is listed in the Guide to the World?s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, is aFellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference(2012-present), and is a member of ABI, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and the Bankruptcy Committee of the New York City Bar Association. Lawdragon 500 listed her among the ?LeadingLawyers in America? in 2017, and she has been recognized in the Guide to the World?s Leading Women in Business Law and in Ohio Super Lawyers. Ms. Lennox received her B.A. summa cum laude fromJohn Carroll University and her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University.