Kari Balog Coniglio, Esq.

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Kari Balog Coniglio</strong> is a partner with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Cleveland and currently serves as a member and co-chair of the firm’s bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice group. She has extensive experience representing financial institutions and other secured lenders, unsecured creditors, trustees, debtors and committees in chapter 11 and 7 bankruptcy cases, and in related litigation on a national basis. She also regularly represents clients in loan restructurings and workouts and other creditors’ rights matters, including receiverships, foreclosures and dissolution proceedings. Ms. Coniglio also is a member of the firm’s finance practice group, where she negotiates and structures intercreditor and subordination agreements for the firm’s lending clients. She has served as a chapter 7 panel bankruptcy trustee for the Northern District of Ohio since 2017. Ms. Coniglio has been listed in <em>The Best Lawyers in America</em> for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law from 2019-25 and for Commercial Litigation from 2018-25, as one of <em>Crain’s Cleveland Business</em> “Notable Women in Law” for 2024, and as an <em>Ohio Super Lawyers</em> “Rising Star” in Bankruptcy from 2019-22. She previously clerked for Hon. Arthur I. Harris of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Ms. Coniglio received her B.A. <em>cum laude</em> in 2003 from Cleveland State University and her J.D. <em>summa cum laude</em> from the Cleveland State University College of Law, where she was the managing editor of the <em>Cleveland State Law Review</em>.</p>