Suzzanne Uhland

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Suzzanne Uhland represents public and private companies, lenders, sponsors, and investors in a wide array of restructuring transactions, including their high-stakes chapter 11 reorganizations and liability management transactions.

Suzzanne is widely recognized as one of the leading restructuring lawyers in the United States. She has been a fellow of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy since 2011. Suzzanne leverages her keen market perspective and her decades of experience to devise creative solutions in clients’ most complex distressed situations. Suzzanne serves as a member of the firm’s Finance Opinion Committee.

She partners with clients to diffuse volatile situations involving financial distress and acts immediately to protect her clients’ commercial interests. Suzzanne builds consensus across key stakeholders to maximize client value and expeditiously achieve successful outcomes.

Her experience spans technology, real estate, energy, and municipal restructurings and financings, as well as international insolvencies and debt restructurings. She advises clients on asset isolation, bankruptcy safe harbor issues and other insolvency-related issues in structured finance and derivative transactions, including those involving cryptocurrency and other digital assets.

Known for her critical thinking on trends within the insolvency space, Suzzanne regularly speaks on panels at industry events. In addition to the American College of Bankruptcy, Suzzanne is a member of the highly selective International Insolvency Institute and is recognized as a Thought Leader for restructuring and insolvency by Who’s Who Legal in affiliation with Global Restructuring Review.

Suzzanne serves on the Yale Law School Fund Board and the board of the Friends of Orinda Creeks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring the Orinda watershed in California.