Ms. Jennifer C. Hagle

Jennifer C. Hagle is a transactional bankruptcy lawyer with Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles and has over 30 years of experience representing clients in bankruptcy and out-of-court restructurings. Her practice principally focuses on representing holders of senior secured, mezzanine and subordinated debt in both public and private middle-market and large cap deals. Her clients include banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions in a wide range of industries, including aviation, media, clean energy (ethanol and biofuels), coal and natural gas, technology, internet gaming, retail and restaurants, health care, hospitality, real estate and for-profit higher education. Ms. Hagle also has significant experience in the area of corporate finance, having represented a number of lenders and borrowers with respect to loan originations and merger and acquisition transactions in nondistressed deals. In 2017, she was named a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (ACCFL), and the American College of Bankruptcy named he as a Fellow of its 2015 class and as a regent for the Ninth Circuit in 2020. She is also a contributing author of Collier?s Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Ms. Hagle?s work has been recognized in Chambers USA: Bankruptcy/Restructuring ? California (2008-20), Who?s Who Legal: Restructuring and Insolvency (2016-20), The Best Lawyers in America (2013-20), Southern California Super Lawyers (2012-20) and Southern California?s Best Lawyers (2019). She is a firmwide co-chair of SidleyWomen and is a member of the Women?s Leadership Council, American Bar Association?s Business Law Section and the Financial Lawyers Conference, and she is a past chair of the California State Bar Insolvency Law Committee. In addition, she serves on the UCLA Communication Studies Department Board of Visitors and the UC Hastings College of the Law Board of Trustees. Ms. Hagle received her B.A. from UCLA in 1983 and her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1987.