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Morrison Foerster Offices
755 PAGE MILL ROAD
PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1018
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Jennifer Marines
Work Department
Business Restructuring + Insolvency; Special Situations
Position
Vice Chair
Career
Jennifer L. Marines | Business Restructuring + Insolvency | Morrison Foerster
Jennifer Marines serves as vice chair of Morrison Foerster and co-chair of the firm’s global Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. She has extensive experience in representing chapter 11 debtors, creditors, investors, and other parties in interest in all aspects of complex corporate restructurings, including chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed acquisitions.
Jennifer has built a highly successful and peer-recognized practice in the restructuring and work-outs space, routinely representing companies and their boards navigate complex distressed situations. Jennifer also has extensive experience advising official committees of creditors, negotiating and structuring financings and other commercial transactions, and representing clients seeking to purchase businesses and related assets out of chapter 11 proceedings.
In addition to her current leadership roles, Jennifer serves as the chair of the firm’s global Finance Department and a member of the Executive Committee.
Jennifer L. Marines | Business Restructuring + Insolvency | Morrison Foerster (mofo.com)
Education
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Williams College, B.A.
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Brooklyn Law School, J.D.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
Morrison Foerster is best known for representing creditors in chapter 11 and restructuring processes; it advised the creditors’ committee in the headline successful challenge to Wesco’s liability management exercise. The firm does also act for debtors. Aviation, energy, retail, telecommunications, technology, banking and finance, manufacturing, real estate and automotive are key sectors for the business restructuring and insolvency group. Lorenzo Marinuzzi and Jennifer Marines are co-chairs of the team, which includes recent arrival from Dechert LLP Douglas Mannal, another experienced practitioner in creditor-side bankruptcy and restructuring mandates. Oksana Lashko also joined the team in 2024 from DLA Piper LLP (US), while Gary Lee is another experienced specialist in the area. All named individuals are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Government > Government contracts
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Fintech
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Government > State attorneys general
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)