Kathleen M. LaManna

Kathleen M. LaManna is a partner in Shipman & Goodwin LLP’s Corporate Trust Practice Group and its Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group in Hartford, Conn., and she served for many years as chair of both practice groups. She represents clients in commercial litigation, defaults, bankruptcies, workouts, contract disputes, and other creditors’ rights matters, practicing in bankruptcy and civil courts across the country. Ms. LaManna has broad litigation and chapter 11 bankruptcy experience, as well as experience guidingher clients through forbearance negotiations and documentation, debt-refinancing, corporate trust amendments, waivers and negotiated resolutions. She has particular experience representing banks in their roles as trustee, collateral agent and administrative agent for public and private debt, in connection with defaulted secured and unsecured financings and debtor-in-possession financing in bankruptcy proceedings. She also represents clients in more general state and federal civil litigation matters relating to contract disputes, business litigation and commercial defaults, as well as in preference and avoidance actions in bankruptcy courts. Ms. LaManna is rated AV-preeminent by MartindaleHubbell, has been named a Connecticut Super Lawyer since 2014, was selected as one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers, and is a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. She received her B.A. cum laude in 1992 from Boston College and her J.D. in 1995 from the University of Connecticut School of Law.