Mrs. Mariaelena Gayo-Guitian

Mariaelena Gayo-Guitian is a partner with Genovese Joblove and Battista, P.A. in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,\nwhere she specializes in all areas of bankruptcy, business reorganization and creditors? rights. She has handled numerous chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations on behalf of debtors, creditors, committees and trustees. Ms. Gayo-Guitian also has experience in handling adversary matters involving objections to discharge, dischargeability of debts, fraudulent transfers, preferences and related bankruptcy litigation. Additionally, she has represented trustees and creditors in bankruptcy cases under chapters\n7 and 13 and specializes in the representation of both assignors and assignees in assignments for the benefit of creditors in state court proceedings. Ms. Gayo-Guitian is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named in Florida Super Lawyers. She is an active member of the Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Bar Association and Bankruptcy Judicial Liaison Committee of the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar, and she is a current member and past president of the Broward County Hispanic Bar Association and a member of the University of Miami Law Alumni Association Board. She is also a\nmember of the International Women?s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), ABI and the American Bar Association. Ms. Gayo-Guitian is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Federal Circuit Court in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida. She earned her J.D. in 1988 from the University of Miami School of Law and her B.B.A. and political science degree cum laude from the University of Miami in 1985, then clerked for former Chief Bankruptcy Judge Sidney M.\nWeaver in the Southern District of Florida.\n