Nuts and Bolts of Business Bankruptcy 2025
Speaking Engagement | December.15.2025 - December.16.2025
PLI New YorkOn December 15-16, Orrick Restructuring Partner and program co-chair Evan Hollander, along with Partner Lorraine McGowen, will speak at Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI) "Nuts and Bolts of Business Bankruptcy 2025."
The two-day program features a series of panels covering foundational corporate bankruptcy topics, including an overview of the bankruptcy system, options available to financially troubled companies, timelines and key steps in bankruptcy cases, the treatment of secured claims in chapter 11, cash collateral usage and debtor-in-possession financing, avoidance actions, the process for drafting, soliciting, and confirming Chapter 11 plans, and the ethical requirements for bankruptcy professionals.
Evan will speak on a panel with Judge Thomas Horan of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware providing an “Overview of the U.S. Bankruptcy System and Procedures” and again on a panel addressing “Avoiding Powers – Augmentation of the Estate in Corporate Bankruptcy.” Lorraine will speak on a panel addressing the mechanics of “Chapter 11 Plans.”
Interested parties may attend the program in person at PLI’s NYC headquarters, or remotely.
CLE Credits Available: Y
Practice:
- Restructuring
- Contenzioso fallimentare
- Banking & Finance
Evan C. Hollander Partner
New York
Mr. Hollander has represented key parties in restructuring matters involving a wide range of sectors—including offshore drilling, aerospace, automotive, sovereign wealth, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. He frequently writes on insolvency related topics and routinely appears on panels at industry conferences.
Practice:
- Finance Sector
- Restructuring
- Contenzioso fallimentare
- Ristrutturazione e insolvenza municipale
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Structured Finance
- Finanziamenti istruzione di secondo grado e prestiti agli studenti
Lorraine McGowen Partner
New York
Lorraine brings 30+ years of legal experience in bankruptcies, out-of-court restructurings, sovereign debt restructurings and creditors' rights controversies. She interfaces with auditors, government regulators, investment bankers and others, and develops and implements mediation and litigation strategies, and negotiates reorganization plans and complex corporate and finance documents. She also regularly provides commercial law and bankruptcy advice in connection with securitization, M&A, energy & infrastructure and general corporate transactions.
Lorraine has represented various stakeholders in bankruptcies, workouts, distressed debt transactions, sovereign debt restructurings, bankruptcy litigation, derivatives and distressed acquisition matters such as Suriname, Belize, Puerto Rico, Takata Corporation, Windstream, GTT, Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Lehman, MF Global, Indiana Toll Road, Chemtura Corporation, Tronox Incorporated, South Bay Expressway, American Dream School, Detroit, General Motors and Stone & Webster.
Lorraine is Partner in Charge of Orrick’s global Inclusion & Belonging Initiatives. She previously served two terms on the firm’s 11-member Board of Directors and as a member of the Management Committee, and she also previously chaired the Restructuring Group.
As a leading Inclusion & Belonging advocate, Lorraine creates programs for the legal profession and the community. She was selected as a 2019 Rainmaker by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), 2025 Private Practitioner of the Year by the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, as one of Savoy Magazine’s Most Influential Lawyers for 2024, 2022, 2018 and 2015, and received Legal Outreach’s Pipeline to Diversity 2017 Champion Award and the New York City Bar Association Diversity and Inclusion 2012 Champion Award. IFLR1000 Rankings named Lorraine a leading lawyer in the U.S. She was selected by Direct Women to be a 2016 Board Institute member. She is a frequent speaker and author on bankruptcy and insolvency and diversity and inclusion.
Among her community involvement, she is a former Vice President and Board Member of the New York City Bar Association and currently co-chairs the City Bar's Digital Assets Task Force. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession and the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, where she is chair of the board, and on the Advisory Committees for Legal Outreach and the Vance Center for International Justice of the City Bar, where she serves as co-chair of the Advisory Committee of the Vance Center.