Partner
Cleary Gottlieb
Jane VanLare’s practice focuses on representing investors in distressed assets, large financial institutions, and corporations in all matters relating to in- and out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy, insolvency, and related litigation.
Jane has advised on significant transactions in the bankruptcy and restructuring space, including currently representing Automotores Gildemeister, an automobile distributor whose operations span multiple countries in Latin America, in its announced plan to file a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan to restructure its debt obligations, a restructuring of almost $600 million in debt. Her other recent representations include acting as counsel to Total SA and affiliates as major customers and contract counterparties in the Chapter 11 proceedings of McDermott International, a restructuring of $9.25 billion of debt; Goldman Sachs as lender, securitization noteholder and letter of credit provider in the potential restructuring of Hertz Corporation; Goldman Sachs and its affiliates as pre-petition term loan and revolving lender and letters of credit provider, DIP lender, and administrative and collateral agent under both pre-petition and DIP credit agreements, in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Ruby Tuesday, a casual dining restaurant chain; and Nomura in an out-of-court liquidation of Malachite Capital Partners. She also represented several large financial institutions in connection with the restructuring, wind-down, and close-out of repurchase agreements with real estate investment trusts managed by Angelo Gordon, MFA Financial, Invesco, or their affiliates (REIT counterparties), and other derivative counterparties, largely triggered by last spring’s market disruption. Jane’s other noteworthy restructuring clients include Z Capital Partners, Nortel Networks, Modspace, Grupo Inbursa, and Overseas Shipholding Group, among others.
Jane has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation on the “Under 40 Hot List” for five years in a row and by the American Bankruptcy Institute as a “40 Under 40” honoree. She regularly publishes articles relating to bankruptcy and restructuring in the ABI Journal, Law360, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, and other publications, and is a contributing author of Collier on Bankruptcy.
