Ms. Cathy L. Reece
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Cathy L. Reece</strong> is a director at Fennemore Craig, P.C. in Phoenix and practices in its financial restructuring, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice group. She has broad experience in every aspect of corporate workouts and bankruptcies, and also works with clients structuring complex transactions and purchasing distressed assets. Ms. Reese has held a variety of leadership positions at state and national associations related to bankruptcy, commercial finance and corporate renewal. She has represented lenders in several commercial real estate receiverships, including receiverships involving an operating copper mine and three high-rise commercial office buildings, and she has represented committees and liquidating trusts in the liquidation of assets and distributions to creditors involving allegations of Ponzi schemes and securities fraud. Some of her cases include representing the investors’ committee in the bankruptcy of hard money real estate lender Mortgages Ltd., the joint creditors’ committee in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona bankruptcies, the secured lender in a publicly traded bankruptcy case involving time shares and resort properties, the municipality that owned the arena where the NHL team played in the Arizona Coyotes hockey bankruptcy cases, a major petroleum-producer and former owner of the El Paso Refinery in litigation over complex environmental claims and restrictive covenants, the debtor-in-possession lender and purchaser of gold mines in cross-border chapter 15 proceedings, and a chapter 11 trustee in several cases involving the sales and operations of health care facilities. Ms. Reece received her Bachelor’s degree in music with high distinction from the University of Arizona and her J.D. from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she served as managing editor of the <em>Arizona State University Law Journal</em>. Following law school, she clerked for Hon. Sandra Day O’Connor at the Arizona Court of Appeals.</p>