Maria J. DiConza

Maria J. DiConza is a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York, where she focuses her practice on complex financial restructuring transactions and chapter 11 debtor representations, primarily for middle-market companies. She has restructuring experience in numerous industries, including the manufacturing, municipal, for-profit education, health care, energy and financial ser- vices sectors. Ms. DiConza is currently advising the Puerto Rico Power Authority, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, and the City of Hartford, Conn., in their restructuring efforts. She was one of the lead attorneys for debtors SFX Entertainment, Inc. and Optima Specialty Steel, Inc. in their successful restructurings, and for Mexican satellite company SatÂŽlites Mexicanos S.A. de  C.V. in its restructuring through a prepackaged chapter 11 case (which was honored with Latin Law- yer's 2012 Deal of the Year-Restructuring award). Ms. DiConza has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World and The Legal 500 US, and was a member of several teams that have received Global M&A Network's Turnaround Atlas Awards. She received her B.A. in government from the College of William and Mary in 1994 and her J.D. magna cum laude from St. John's University School of Law in 1997, where she was an article and notes editor for the St. John's Law Review and received the CALI Award for Excellence in Corporate Taxation.