Jenner & Block’s Bankruptcy Practice Bolstered With Addition of Hankin, McArn

    NEW YORK, July 15 /EMWNews/ -- Marc B. Hankin, a bankruptcy lawyer

with wide experience representing debtors, secured creditors, lenders,

creditors' committees, and other parties in corporate reorganizations,

joined Jenner & Block on July 14 as a partner in its New York office.

Heather D. McArn, also a highly experienced bankruptcy lawyer, is joining

the firm as special counsel on August 4.



    "The addition of Marc and Heather to our New York office will add

significant experience to our growing Bankruptcy, Workout and Corporate

Reorganization Practice," said Susan C. Levy, Managing Partner of Jenner &

Block.



    Mr. Hankin had been counsel in the Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group

of Shearman & Sterling in New York City. He had worked at that firm since

joining as an associate in 1994. Between 1992 and 1994, he was a law clerk

for Chief Judge Burton R. Lifland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the

Southern District of New York. Among his clients have been Spiegel and

Eddie Bauer in their Chapter 11 cases; Citigroup in connection with Dana

Corporation's Chapter 11 case; and HSBC Bank USA in connection with many

subprime mortgage originators.



    "I am delighted to join Jenner & Block and help further build its

world-class bankruptcy practice," Mr. Hankin said.



    Mr. Hankin received his J.D., with honors, from the University of

Connecticut School of Law in 1992 and his bachelor's degree from Yale

College in 1989.



    Ms. McArn just completed a clerkship for Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez in

the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Between

2004 and 2006, she was a court advocate for victims of domestic violence in

Birmingham, Ala. Before that, Ms. McArn was an associate for several years

in the Bankruptcy and Reorganization Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,

Wharton & Garrison in New York. Between 1994 and 1996, she was a law clerk

to Chief Judge Lifland in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.



    Ms. McArn received her J.D., cum laude, from Vermont Law School in

1992. She received a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia

University in 1988 and a bachelor's degree in political economy from Tulane

University in 1986.



    Mr. Hankin and Ms. McArn are the second and third bankruptcy lawyers to

move to Jenner & Block this year. On January 1, 2008, Patrick J. Trostle

joined the Firm as a New York partner.