Ms. Lori Sinanyan

Lori Sinanyan is Of Counsel in Jones Day's Los Angeles office, where she advises regional and na- tional clients on corporate restructuring and bankruptcy-related matters. She counsels on such matters as corporate governance issues, out-of-court restructurings, distressed sales and acquisitions, proceedings under chapters 9 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and bankruptcy litigation. Ms. Sinanyan has repre- sented debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, trustees and other parties in interest in the health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals and energy sectors. She recently represented the City of Detroit in its historic chap- ter 9 case, creditor plan proponents who successfully led the plan-confirmation process in the MF Global cases, a California community hospital in its out-of-court restructuring, Twentieth Century Fox in vari- ous restructuring matters, Universal and Fox as rescue DIP financiers in the Rhythm & Hues bankruptcy, FGIC as a creditor with more than $1 billion in claims in the Residential Capital bankruptcy, Onex Corp. in the Hawker-Beechcraft bankruptcy, ad hoc noteholders' committees in Chemtura, Verso, and Station Casinos, debtor Plant Insulation in its asbestos-related chapter 11 case, the creditors' committee in Thorpe Insulation, Kimpton Hotels in a hotel acquisition, and the Daughters of Charity in the acquisi- tion of a nonprofit hospital in bankruptcy. Prior to joining Jones Day, she represented chapter 11 debtors Leiner Health Products, W. R. Grace, Calpine, Solutia, Cable & Wireless (USA), Centis and Union Acceptance Corporation; creditors Morgan Creek Productions and Greenwich Capital; and chapter 11 trustees in Ritter Ranch Dvlpt. and DIVA Systems. Ms. Sinanyan received her B.A. in political science in 1997 from the University of California in Los Angeles and her J.D. in 2000 from the University of Southern California, where she was managing editor of the Southern California Law Review.