Corinne Ball, Esq.

Corinne Ball is a partner with Jones Day in New York and has nearly 40 years of experience in business finance and restructuring, with a focus on complex corporate reorganizations and distressed acquisitions, both court-supervised and extra judicial, including matters involving multijurisdictional and cross-border enterprises. She co-leads the New York Office’s Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice and leads the firm’s European Distress Investing and Alternative Capital Initiatives. Ms. Ball worked extensively on the City of Detroit restructuring and led a team of attorneys representing Chrysler LLC in connection with its successful chapter 11 reorganization, which won the Investment Dealers’ Digest Deal of the Year award for 2009. She also led a team of attorneys in the successful restructuring of FGIC and the sale of its portfolio to MBIA, as well as Dana Corp., which emerged from bankruptcy in 2008, and has orchestrated many other complex reorganizations involving companies such as Oncor, Oi, OSX, US Manufacturing, Metaldyne, Axcelis Technologies, Kaiser Aluminum, Tarragon and The Williams Communications Companies. In addition, she has counseled lenders and bondholders in the ABFS, Comdisco, Excite@Home, Exide SA, GST Communications, the Houston Sport’s Authority and Jefferson County, European Wind Farms (Breeze) and the National Portuguese Railway, Loy Yang B, VARIG Airlines and Worldcom restructurings, among others. Ms. Ball has advised on loans, acquisitions and workouts involving professional sports franchises, including the Charlotte Bobcats, the Detroit Redwings, the Minnesota Wild, the New Jersey Devils and the Phoenix Coyotes. She also leads the firm’s distressed M&A efforts and is the featured “Distress M&A” columnist for the New York Law Journal. Ms. Ball won the Turnaround Management Association’s “International Turnaround Company of the Year” award, and was named “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer and one of “Most Influential Lawyer of the Decade in Bankruptcy & Restructuring” by The National Law Journal. She has served as director for the American College of Bankruptcy and ABI, and she is a member of the International Institute on Insolvency. Ms. Ball received her B.A. cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 from Williams College and her J.D. in 1978 with honors from George Washington University.