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Nava Hazan
Partner
Nava Hazan is a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group located in the New York office and is the co-chair of the firm’s Cross-Border Restructuring Practice.
Nava's practice involves the representation of debtors, foreign liquidators and administrators in Chapter 15 cases and other cross-border proceedings. She also represents debtors, creditors’ committees, and secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases in various industries.
- Represented debtors, liquidators and administrators in Chapter 15 cases with foreign proceedings in Canada, the UK, Spain, the British Virgin Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua.
- Represented foreign liquidators and administrators in numerous US proceedings in federal and state courts and out-of-court.
- Represented debtors in Chapter 11 cases, including mining companies (with cross-border ancillary proceedings), a manufacturer of confectionery products, a dairy producer, an apparel manufacturer and an airline company.
- Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors for an oil and gas company, steel manufacturing companies, a mining company, a telecommunications company, a publishing company, a satellite and cable television company, and a manufacturer of cameras and instant film.
- Represented a private equity firm in a loan-to-own transaction in the Chapter 11 case of a copper mining company.
- Represented DIP lenders and plan sponsors in the Chapter 11 cases of a manufacturer of light aircraft, a manufacturer of refractory products and a mining company.
- Represented successful bidders in section 363 sales.
- Represented large creditors (and members of creditors’ committees) in Chapter 11 cases.
Education
- MIT Sloan School of Management, Master of Business Administration, 2021
- Columbia University, LL.M., 1999
- Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Master’s Degree in Law, 1997
- Panthéon-Assas University, Master’s Degree in Law, 1996
- Panthéon-Assas University, J.D., 1995
Admissions
- New York, 2000
- Paris, 1998
Courts
- U.S. Ct. of App., Second Circuit
- U.S. Ct. of App., Third Circuit
- U.S. Dist. Ct., S. Dist. of New York
- U.S. Dist. Ct., N. Dist. of New York
- U.S. Dist. Ct., E. Dist. of New York
- U.S. Dist. Ct., W. Dist. of New York
Memberships & Affiliations
- International Insolvency Institute, NextGen (III)
- INSOL International
- Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
- International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- French-American Bar Association
Languages
- English
- French
- Recognized as one of the "Top 100 Restructuring & Turnaround Professionals" by Global M&A Network, 2017
- Recommended in The Legal 500 US for Corporate Restructuring, 2014
Publications
- Co-author, “Did Jevic Doom Future Chapter 11 Recovery Efforts by Unsecured Creditors?,” Journal of Corporate Renewal, November/December 2018.
- Guest editor and author, “U.S., English Courts Welcome Most – But Not All – Foreign Debtors,” TMA Journal of Corporate Renewal, July-August 2016.
- Guest editor, “Old School Merchants’ Survival Threatened by New Consumer Realities,” TMA Journal of Corporate Renewal, May 2015.
- Book reviewer, “Managing the Chapter 15 Cross-Border Insolvency Case – A Pocket Guide for Judges by the Honourable Louise De Carl Adler, 2nd Edition,” Eurofenix, The Journal of INSOL Europe, January 2015.
- Author, “Using Foreign Legal Systems to Successfully Restructure: The U.K. and U.S. Perspectives: Part II,” ABI Business Reorganization Committee Newsletter, December 2014.
- Author, “Using Foreign Legal Systems to Successfully Restructure: The U.K. and U.S. Perspectives: Part I,” ABI Business Reorganization Committee Newsletter, October 2014.
- Author, “New York vs London; Who Will Restructure Europe’s High Yield Loans?” Global Turnaround, August 2014.
- Author, “Have Recent Cases Provided Clarity on Court Expectations from Non-U.S. Organisations Under Chapter 15 Proceedings?” LexisNexis United Kingdom, July 2014.
- Guest editor and author, “Using Chapter 15 to Protect Foreign Debtors’ Estates in Cross Border Cases,” TMA Journal of Corporate Renewal, May 2014.
- Author, “An Englishman in New York: COMI in the U.K. or the U.S.?” Corporate Rescue and Insolvency, February 2014.
- Author, “Le Chapitre 15 du Code des Faillites Américain: une Arme à la Disposition des Organes de la Procédure Pour Protéger des Actifs Situés aux Etats-Unis,” La Revue, October 2013.
- Author, “How Foreign Liquidators Can Gain Access to U.S. Courts,” New York Law Journal, Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy, September 2013.
- Author, “A Useful Toolkit: Opportunities for Foreign Companies to Purchase or Protect Assets in the U.S.,” International Finance Law Review, November 2011.
BLOG
- Editor, eSQUIRE Global Crossings.
Speaking Engagements
- Panelist, “Insolvency Remedies for Offshore Fraud: Closing the Net on the Bad Guys,” American Bankruptcy Institute, Caribbean Insolvency Symposium, Grand Cayman, January 2019.
- Panelist, “Cross Border Claims – The Impact of American Bankruptcy Concepts in Canadian Proceedings,” National Judicial Institute, Insolvency Seminar, Vancouver, Canada, February 2018.
- Panelist, “Crossing the 49th – Insights From the US on Cross-Border Canada-US Proceedings,” Annual Review of Insolvency Law, Vancouver, Canada, February 2018.
- Panelist, “Cross Bordeaux Matters,” Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP), Kelowna, Canada, August 2017.
- Panelist, “Restructuring Distressed Businesses: Strategies for Saving Healthy Assets, Carve-outs and Divestments of Losing Assets and Recognizing the Difference,” IBA Annual Conference, Washington DC, September 2016.
- Panelist, “International Insolvency: Dealing with Security, Restructuring and Realizations Outside of Canada and the U.S.,” Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP), Insolvency and Restructuring Exchange, Toronto, Canada, May 2016.
- Panelist, “Cross-Border Restructurings: Perspectives from U.S. Practitioners,” TMA 2016 Symposium, Toronto, Canada, April 2016.
- Panelist, “Cross Border Restructurings,” Expert Webcast, November 2015.
- Panelist, “We Are Not in Kansas Anymore: Looking at International Insolvency/Restructurings Through the Bankruptcy Code and Beyond,” American Bankruptcy Institute, September 2014.
- Host and panelist, “Tactics and Strategies of Chapter 15 and Cross-Border Insolvencies,” Beard Group Webinar, December 2013.