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Suzzanne
Uhland

About Suzzanne Uhland

San Francisco, California

Attorney Suzzanne Uhland is a Partner with O’Melveny & Myers LLP, a global law firm offering a wide range of legal services. She practices in both the San Francisco and Newport Beach offices, where Ms. Uhland has a professional focus on restructuring, health care, derivatives and structured products, distressed mergers and acquisitions, and distressed company and bankruptcy litigation. In addition to her litigation work, Suzzanne Uhland often teams up with the firm’s transactional attorneys in bankruptcy cases as well as in cases where client companies restructure to avoid bankruptcy.

Her considerable experience includes representing debtors-in-possession, creditors, and DIP lenders in Chapter 11 cases of public and private companies. She served as lead counsel to New Century Financial Corporation, a subprime lender, in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, and in their corporate and litigation matters as debtor-in-possession. Suzzanne Uhland was the attorney for Printronix, a portfolio company of Vector Capital, in its acquisition of TallyGenicom LP, which filed Chapter 11.

Named in Best Lawyers in America, Suzzanne Uhland is recognized among her peers for her superior legal expertise. Chambers and Partners USA cited her work in restructuring for four years in a row, and she is listed in Who’s Who Legal Insolvency & Restructuring in California. Orange Coast Magazine also selected her as one of the best lawyers in Orange County. Ms. Uhland is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy.

A graduate of Yale University Law School, Suzzanne Uhland also earned undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Stanford University. After earning her Juris Doctor, she served as Law Clerk for the Honorable Mariana Pfaelzer of the US District Court central district of California. As an Adjunct Professor, Ms. Uhland taught courses in Secured Transactions at the Southwestern University School of Law.


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  • A Discussion on Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions
    May, 2012
    A Partner at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP, Suzzanne Uhland practices bankruptcy and insolvency law while chairing her firm’s Restructuring Practice. Honored by Chambers and Partners USA for three consecutive years, Suzanne Uhland represents private equity funds involved with distressed investments, acquisitions, and portfolio restructurings in addition to distressed entities seeking to retain their intellectual property rights.

    Suzzanne Uhland is part of O’Melveny’s Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions practice. The firm regularly represents clients in strategic acquisitions of controlling and other substantial and other distressed debt positions, equitizing such a position in a restructuring, acquisitions of companies or significant assets in 363 sales or under plans of reorganization and other transactions in the distressed arena. The distressed mergers and acquisitions practice at O’Melveny & Myers contains attorneys trained in restructuring, securities, and finance. The firm typically counsels clients thought the acquisition or other restructuring transaction from the initial strategic analysis and structuring through due diligence, negotiation, documentation and consummation of the transaction. the lawyers write contracts, negotiate on behalf of the client, and finalize the transaction. The practice includes professionals skilled and experienced in debt restructurings, distressed debt positions, 363 sales, debtor-in-possession lending, and a variety of other financial matters.

    One of the most renowned firms practicing in this area, O’Melveny & Myers has received accolades from Chambers and Partners USA, Chambers and Partners Global, Asian Legal Business, Super Lawyers, and many other national and international publications.