Lorenzo Marinuzzi

Partner

New York, (212) 468-8045

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Education

Fordham University (B.A., 1993)
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Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1996)

Practices

Business Restructuring + Insolvency

Bar Admissions

New Jersey
New York

Lorenzo Marinuzzi specializes in the representation of debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in bankruptcy cases, workouts, and litigation throughout the country. His cases have spanned a number of industries, including airline and cargo transportation, mortgage origination and servicing, retail, banking and finance, energy, telecommunications, and oil and gas.

Mr. Marinuzzi’s recently concluded engagements include representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Mesa Air Group, Inc., et al. in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Hawaiian Telcom restructuring, advising the State of Alaska in the bankruptcy case of Pacific Energy Resources Ltd., and representing the Distribution Trustee of the FLYi & Independence Air Distribution Trust. Mr. Marinuzzi currently represents Residential Capital, LLC, et. al, as debtors in possession, Louis J. Freeh, as Chapter 11 Trustee of MF Global Holdings Ltd., the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Pinnacle Airlines cases, Richemont North America, Inc. on general bankruptcy matters and numerous financial institutions in the bankruptcy proceedings of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., and the liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc. under the Securities Investor Protection Act.

Mr. Marinuzzi is listed as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA 2013. He is also recommended in the 2012 edition of The Legal 500 US, where he is noted for doing “an unbelievably good job in managing complex cases” and is ranked in The Deal’s Top Bankruptcy Lawyers, by volume (U.S. only) (Second Quarter, 2012). He was designated by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine as an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer in 2007 and 2011. Mr. Marinuzzi received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1993 and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1996. While earning his law degree at Fordham, he was a staff member of the Fordham Urban Law Journal.

Residential Capital, LLC

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Residential Capital, one of the largest residential real estate finance companies with assets and liabilities each in excess of $15 billion, whose business is comprised primarily of loan servicing and origination, and its subsidiary companies, in their pending chapter 11 cases. Residential Capital was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2012 and the case represents the first time ever that a mortgage servicer was able to successfully continue servicing and originating mortgages in bankruptcy and be sold as a going concern.

MF Global Holdings Ltd.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Louis J. Freeh, former Federal Judge and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as Chapter 11 Trustee for MF Global in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. With $41 billion in assets at the time of filing, MF Global was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2011 and the eighth-largest in U.S. history. This case involves a wind-down of an extremely complex global operation and the realization of value from various entities in the MF Global Group, many of which are in their own administration or liquidation proceedings domestically and internationally.

In re Pinnacle Airlines Corp., et al.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Pinnacle Airlines Corp., et al. Pinnacle Airlines operates as Delta Connection for Delta Airlines, the Debtors’ largest customer and post-petition lender. At the time of filing of their bankruptcy petitions on April 1, 2012, the Debtors had 8,000 employees, over $1 billion in annual revenue and operated over 800 flights a day.

In re Los Angeles Dodgers LLC, et al.

(Bankr. D. Del.) Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of the Los Angeles Dodgers in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A plan of reorganization was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court on April 13, 2012, pursuant to which the baseball team was sold for a record $2 billion. Unsecured creditors received a 100% cash recovery under the plan, in what is the largest and most successful restructuring of a sports franchise in U.S. history.

In re Mesa Air Group, Inc., et al.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Mesa Air Group, Inc., et al. in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

In re Caribbean Petroleum Corp., et al.

(Bankr. D. Del.) Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Caribbean Petroleum Corp., one of the primary importers and distributors of petroleum products in Puerto Rico, in its Chapter 11 case. We successfully negotiated a $24 million insurance buy back from Caribbean Petroleum's liability insurance carrier for the benefit of general unsecured creditors.

In re Hawaiian Telcom Communications, Inc., et al.

(Bankr. D. Haw.) Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Hawaiian Telcom, the leading provider of telecommunications services in the State of Hawaii.