Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
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.
Jane has advised on some of the industry’s most complex domestic and cross-border bankruptcy and restructuring matters, including recently representing LATAM Airlines in the voluntary reorganization and restructuring of approximately $11 billion in debt; 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 joined the firm in 2010 and became a partner in 2016. She received a J.D. from the Harvard School of Law and a A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College.
