Bio

Mary’s experience in corporate securities and loans includes negotiating and drafting loan agreements, advising clients regarding distressed debt and high-yield secondary market trading issues, high-yield and investment grade debt analysis and credit agreement analysis including in the context of restructuring for troubled companies, bridge financings, tender offers, consent solicitations, private exchange offers and new offerings. Mary’s experience in derivatives matters includes advising clients on valuations, close-out, collateral and other issues relating to derivatives with bankrupt or insolvent counterparties or underlying reference entities as well as negotiating and advising regarding prime brokerage arrangements, ISDA master agreements and collateral arrangements, repurchase and stock loan agreements, and exchange-traded futures and options and other trading documents, and also with respect to CLOs and CDOs. She has extensive experience representing investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms and public and private companies in financings, public and private offerings of debt, equity and hybrids, exchange offers for companies pre-bankruptcy, reorganizations and refinancings of existing debt in anticipation of bankruptcy, secondary market trading issues (including insider trading issues) and regulatory, compliance and corporate governance issues for broker dealers and companies. EDUCATION: University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1999); University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, 1996);