Heidi J. Sorvino, formerly of Hodgson Russ, has joined LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights practice area team. She will be resident in the firm’s Manhattan office.

Sorvino represents business entities, debtors and secured creditors including banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, creditors’ committees, distressed-debt investors and indenture trustees in complex bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, corporate restructurings and related litigation.

Her experience includes chapter 11 and chapter 7 cases, non-bankruptcy workouts, the acquisition, financing and disposition of real estate, cash collateral orders, debtor-in-possession financing, automatic stay relief, plan negotiations, sales of assets, preference and fraudulent conveyance actions and trading in claims.

Sorvino is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation.