Ana Alfonso Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8244 F 212-728-9244

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Ana M. Alfonso is a partner in the Business Reorganization and Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Ms. Alfonso has advised secured lenders, administrative agents for syndicated credits, debtors, trustees, committees, unsecured creditors and other parties facing bankruptcy and insolvency-related issues. Her practice focuses on creditors’ right and loan workouts both in and out of bankruptcy.

Prior to joining Willkie in 2010, Ms. Alfonso was a partner at Kaye Scholer LLP.

Ms. Alfonso’s representative current and prior engagements include:

• Representing the largest secured creditor in connection with more than $3 billion of credit exposure in the Chapter 11 case of Lyondell Chemical Company.
  
  
• Advising a major financial institution in connection with the workout of a $2 billion mortgage loan portfolio.
  
  
• Representing administrative agents for prepetition lenders and DIP lenders in numerous Chapter 11 cases of debtors in a wide variety of industries.
  
  
• Representing financial institutions in connection with swap closeouts, derivatives-related litigation and commutations with distressed insurers of credit default swap exposure.
  
  
• Representing an official committee of unsecured creditors holding claims in excess of $1.8 billion against a large energy holdings company.
  
  
• Serving as part of a litigation team representing one of the world's largest banks in its efforts to enforce its rights against natural gas collateral.
  
  
• Advising one of the world's largest financial institutions as a prepetition secured creditor and postpetition lender to a large healthcare company.
  
  
• Litigating commercial contract disputes, ranging in magnitude from $1 million to $40 million, on behalf of a liquidating trustee under a Chapter 11 plan.
  
  
• Serving as bankruptcy counsel to a publicly held healthcare company in a complex Chapter 11 reorganization that generated more than $1 billion in distributable value to creditors.
  
  
• Representing providers of goods and services as defendants in preference lawsuits brought on behalf of bankruptcy estates.

Ms. Alfonso is the co-author of "Zing VII and the Future of "Bankruptcy-Remote," Asset Securitization Report (November 2011), "Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Holds ‘Gift’ From Secured Creditor To Shareholder Under A Chapter 11 Plan Violates Absolute Priority Rule," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (April 2011) and "Calyon: Mortgage Loan Investors and Safe Harbors," New York Law Journal (January 31, 2008).