All In For New York CityFall Cocktail Reception

 

 

Are you All In?Join us on Thursday, October 30th, 2025 at 583 Park Ave.

Join us for our annual fall cocktail reception as we come together to celebrate incredible leaders in the restructuring industry and raise funds in support of grassroots initiatives improving our great city. This year we are proud to recognize our honorees: Jeffrey Finger, Managing Director at Jefferies and Aparna Yenamandra, Partner at Kirkland & Ellis.

The community leaders we support are the ones leading creative arts initiatives, food pantries, sports mentorship programs, health workshops for seniors, community gardens, and so much more. They are the small business owners providing opportunities and centers of community for their neighborhoods.

We’re deeply grateful for your partnership, which allows these grassroots leaders to create the change they envision for their communities. Together, we can build a New York that works for every New Yorker–with each of us doing our part to make it the greatest city in the world.

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Meet this year's honorees

Aparna Yenamandra, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Aparna Yenamandra is a restructuring partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on representing debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in all aspects of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency proceedings. Aparna has been recognized in the 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions of Chambers USA. She was also named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer by Turnarounds & Workouts in 2024. Sources described Aparna as “a true professional,” “a great attorney,” “very intelligent and hardworking” and “a flourishing talent” who is “phenomenal in court and works tirelessly to pull people together.” In 2019, she was included in Global Restructuring Review’s list of “Women in Restructuring.”

Jeffrey Finger, Jefferies

Jeffrey Finger is a Managing Director and U.S. Co- Head of the Debt Advisory & Restructuring Group at Jefferies. He has over 20 years of experience advising companies, boards of directors, financial sponsors and creditors across a range of industries in restructuring, recapitalization, liability management, financing and M&A transactions. Prior to joining Jefferies, Jeffrey was a partner in the Debt Advisory and Restructuring Group at Centerview Partners. Earlier in his career, he was a Managing Director at Miller Buckfire & Co., a former member of the financial restructuring group of its predecessor, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, as well as worked in the investment banking division of Wasserstein Perella.

Event Leadership

  • Event Chair

    • Paul Deutch

      Omni Agent Solutions, Inc.

  • Honorary Co-Chairs

    • Richard Morgner

      Jefferies, LLC

    • Joshua Sussberg

      Kirkland & Ellis LLP

  • Event Co-Chairs

    • Holly Etlin

      AlixPartners

    • Katie Coleman

      Hughes Hubbard & Reed

    • Lorie Beers

      Intrepid Investment Partners

    • Kelley Cornish

      Selendy Gay

  • Leadership Committee

    • Carrianne Basler

      AlixPartners

    • Mitch Drucker

      Ares Management

    • Jigi Smolinsky

      Brown Harris Stevens

    • Maja Zerjal Fink

      Clifford Chance

    • Natasha Labovitz

      Debevoise & Plimpton

    • Robert J. Lemons

      Goodwin Proctor LLP

    • Eric Mendelsohn

      Greenhill & Co.

    • Sherri L. Toub

      Kekst CNC

    • Rachael Ringer

      Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

    • Laura Davis Jones

      Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, LLP

    • Tom Califano

      Sidley Austin LLP

  • Host Committee

    • Brian Corio

      Alvarez & Marsal

    • Brian Fox

      Alvarez & Marsal

    • Gaurav Malhotra

      Alvarez & Marsal

    • Lisa Donahue

      AlixPartners

    • Randall Eisenberg

      AlixPartners

    • Jim McGinley

      Ankura

    • Edward Neiger

      ASK LLP

    • Bob Duffy

      BRG Corporate Finance

    • Jon Henes

      C Street Advisory Group

    • Marc Puntus

      Centerview Partners

    • David Botter

      Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

    • Norm Pernick

      Cole Schotz P.C.

    • Timothy Graulich

      Davis Polk

    • Van C. Durrer II

      Dentons

    • Rachel Albanese

      DLA Piper

    • Alan Carr

      Drivetrain

    • Heather Barlow

      Dundon Advisors

    • Richard Bernard

      Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath

    • Carlin Adrianopoli

      FTI Consulting

    • Tanya Meerovich

      FTI Consulting

    • William Henrich

      Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC

    • Keith Martorana

      Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

    • Nathan Haynes

      Greenberg Traurig

    • Alan D. Halperin

      Halperin Battaglia Benzija, LLP

    • Michael Freitag

      Joele Frank

    • Corinne Ball

      Jones Day

    • Heather Lennox

      Jones Day

    • Steve Reisman

      Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

    • Harold Bordwin

      Keen-Summit Capital Partners

    • Matt Bordwin

      Keen-Summit Capital Partners

    • Matthew Kelsey

      King & Spalding

    • Nicole Greenblatt

      Kirkland & Ellis

    • Christina Pullo

      Kroll Restructuring Administration

    • George Klidonas

      Latham & Watkins

    • Andrew Parlen

      Latham & Watkins

    • Jeff Cohen

      Lowenstein Sandler

    • Shawn M. Riley

      McDonald Hopkins, LLC

    • Lisa Laukitis

      Milbank LLP

    • Derek Abbott

      Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

    • Michael Barocas

      Otterbourg PC

    • Brad Sandler

      Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP

    • John Weiss

      Pashman Stein Walder Hayden P.C.

    • Brian Hermann

      Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

    • Bruce Mendelsohn

      Perella Weinberg Partners

    • Chris Ward

      Polsinelli LLP

    • Blake Cleary

      Potter Anderson

    • Ryan Wagner

      Prudential Private Capital

    • Patty Tomasco

      Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

    • Daniel DeFranceschi

      Richards, Layton & Finger

    • Rachel Mauceri

      Robinson+Cole

    • Ryan Dahl

      Ropes & Gray LLP

    • Anthony Grossi

      Sidley Austin LLP

    • Andrew Sherman

      Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

    • Shana Elberg

      Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

    • Jay Goffman

      Smith Goffman Partners

    • Nathan Cook

      Teneo

    • David Prager

      The Brattle Group

    • Frank Oswald

      Togut, Segal & Segal LLP

    • Francine Gordon-Durrer

      Verita

    • Ricky Mason

      Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

    • Sunny Singh

      Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

    • Kelly DiBlasi

      Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

    • Jeffrey Saferstein

      Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

    • Hon. Shelley C. Chapman (Ret.)

      Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

    • Joe Barry

      Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor

Donations from this event go straight to the frontlines of community action. They fund microgrants for New Yorkers turning vacant lots into community gardens, organizing youth leadership programs, expanding food access, and building climate resilience block by block. The groups featured here aren’t abstract—they’re your neighbors, leading real solutions in every borough.

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Contact Us

The best way to reach the team at CitizensNYC is by email, and please do not hesitate to contact us with questions or ideas. 

If you have a question about our Community Leaders Grants, contact grants@citizensnyc.org.

If you have a question about our Neighborhood Business Grants, contact businessgrants@citizensnyc.org.

You can also find CitizensNYC staff emails on our People page.