Navigating the Complex World of Corporate Bankruptcy and Reorganization

Kristen Perry advises clients in complex reorganization matters, both in- and out-of-court. She advises clients in preparing Chapter 11 matters for filing and negotiating restructuring transactions, including distressed asset sales/purchases, debtor-in-possession financing and exit financing.

Kristen represents debtors, hedge funds and bank lenders across a variety of industries. She has represented companies in high stakes mass tort litigation, with an emphasis in pharmaceutical and products liability litigation. Her experience also extends to complex commercial and business litigation matters. Kristen has previously counseled clients on bad faith litigation and insurance defense.

Mark D. Podgainy, CTP is a managing director with Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC in New York and has more than 25 years of experience working with healthy, underperforming and distressed middle-market businesses, both as an advisor and as a member of the management team. He has provided operations restructuring, business plan analysis, performance improvement, cash and vendor management, bankruptcy consulting and interim-management services.

Mr. Podgainy has also worked with law firms on forensic and litigation support assignments in bankruptcy cases. His clients have included business owners, boards of directors, private-equity firms, lenders, creditors’ committees and law firms, and he has worked primarily in the manufacturing and distribution, consumer products, building products, food, hospitality, retail, apparel and textile, and real estate sectors, among others.

Mr. Podgainy also has experience with both the nonprofit and education sectors, including ConnectEdu and The College of New Rochelle, and he has experience in successfully guiding middle-market companies through the workout and restructuring processes, both in court and out of court. He has served as CRO, interim CFO, treasurer or financial advisor in a variety of companies and situations. Outcomes have included improved operational and financial performance, successful reorganizations, enterprise and asset sales, wind-downs and liquidations. In each situation, he has been able to address thorny financial, legal, organizational and governance issues to maximize recoveries for the parties-in-interest.

Mr. Podgainy is a board member of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City Inc., a nonprofit that revitalizes underserved neighborhoods, and the New York City Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. He is a member of ABI, the Turnaround Management Association and the Cornell Hotel Society, and he has written frequently on mergers and acquisitions, real estate and related topics for numerous industry trade publications.

Mr. Podgainy received his Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Mark N. Parry is a Partner in Moses Singer's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights practice group. Mark has over thirty years of experience in bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights matters. He has successfully represented clients before various United States District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts in proceedings under Chapter 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code.
His experience includes the representation of secured and unsecured creditors, holders of public debt, indenture trustees and official committees of unsecured creditors. Mark also has substantial experience in cross-border insolvency proceedings. Mark has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of litigation in federal and state courts involving fraudulent conveyances, breaches of fiduciary duty, secured and unsecured financings and letters of credit.
He has significant experience with regard to the duties of corporate directors under Delaware law. Mr. Parry is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association and The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Parry received his J.D., cum laude, in 1982 from Cornell University Law School, his M.A. in 1978 from Columbia University and his B.S., magna cum laude, in 1976 from University of Utah.