Bio

Carollynn Callari has more than twenty years of corporate and bankruptcy law experience at the AmLaw 100 law firms Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Venable LLP. Carollynn is a general corporate advisor to her clients, providing counsel on day-to-day legal issues, acquisitions and commercial agreements. She advises borrowers and lenders in connection with distressed loans and serves as outside general counsel to portfolio companies. Carollynn frequently assists clients with implementing growth and turnaround strategies as well as strategic corporate planning and business transactions. She also has extensive experience in sophisticated business reorganization and restructuring matters, having worked across the full spectrum of Chapter 11 cases as well as counseling parties in workouts and restructuring matters conducted outside of judicial settings, and general commercial transactions. Ms. Callari is the Executive Director and a board member of the New York Chapter of Opus Connect, a professional organization with members comprised of private equity, family office, and other capital providers. For several years she served as an adjunct instructor at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, teaching a workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy course. She is a speaker at conferences addressing corporate bankruptcy issues and investments in distressed assets. Ms. Callari is also a qualified bankruptcy mediator having completed the American Bankruptcy Institute 40-hour bankruptcy mediation program at St. John’s University School of Law.