Partner, New York
Cleary Gottlieb
Jane VanLare is a partner in Cleary Gottlieb’s New York office. She is a leading practitioner in restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy litigation.
Jane represents investors in distressed assets, large financial institutions, and corporations in all matters relating to in- and out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy, insolvency, and related litigation. She has a wide range of industry experience, including energy, consumer, airlines, retail, restaurants and hospitality, shipping, and digital assets.
Widely recognized as a leader in her field, Jane has been named a Restructuring and Insolvency Expert by the Legal Media Group’s Women in Business Law, a Rising Star (Bankruptcy) by Law360, and an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer by Turnaround & Workouts. She was featured on Benchmark Litigation’s “40 and Under Hot list” for six years in a row and recognized as one of the top 40 future leaders of the bankruptcy bar by the American Bankruptcy Institute in their “40 Under 40” list in 2018. Jane regularly speaks and publishes on topics relating to bankruptcy and restructuring.
Jane has advised on some of the industry’s most complex domestic and cross-border bankruptcy and restructuring matters, including recently representing Genesis Global Capital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, in its Chapter 11 restructuring proceeding and related corporate governance, regulatory, and investigative matters, including an investigation overseen by the Board’s Special Committee; LATAM Airlines in the voluntary reorganization and restructuring of approximately $11 billion in debt; Goldman Sachs, as collateral agent and revolving lender in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Limetree Bay Refinery involving nearly $1 billion in secured debt; Mubadala Capital in the successful restructuring of a portfolio company through a new investment and corporate restructuring of the underlying business; Grupo Posadas, the largest hotel operator in Mexico, in the successful restructuring of $393 million of senior notes; Goldman Sachs as prepetition agent on a $110 million pre-petition facility and DIP agent in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Rockall Energy, an upstream oil and gas company; Automotores Gildemeister in a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy involving approximately $570 million of debt; and TotalEnergies in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Brazos, McDermott International, Valaris, Pacific Drilling, Seadrill, and Chesapeake Energy.
Jane received a JD from the Harvard School of Law and a AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.
