Suzana K. Koch
As a member of the Commercial and Bankruptcy Practice Group, Suzana focuses her practice on commercial law and business reorganizations, and she helps businesses grow through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions.

Suzana engages in both transactional work and litigation to help clients protect their rights.  In her capacity as a workout attorney, Suzana frequently negotiates and documents revised loan terms and forbearance agreements that allow debtors and creditors to continue their financing arrangement, and she works to help clients when court involvement is unavoidable.  Suzana also protects creditors’ rights using Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

In the bankruptcy arena, Suzana represents corporate debtors, financial institutions, official creditors committees and trade creditors in all aspects of commercial bankruptcy cases. 

With respect to transactional growth, Suzana provides general business and corporate advice as well as drafting, negotiating and closing representation in mergers and acquisitions. She also devotes a portion of her practice to financing and loan structuring endeavors.

Suzana was named as a Rising Star through a peer- and achievement-based review by Law & Politics Media, Inc. from 2009 - 2012.

Professional/Civic Activities
Suzana is a member of the board of Trustees for The Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group, the Strongsville-Brecksville ABLE program and Mary Emery Circle, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She also serves as a volunteer tutor for English for Speakers of Other Languages.  Suzana is a former Trustee for the Brecksville Center for the Arts.

Suzana is a member of the Federal, Ohio State, Cleveland Metropolitan (CMBA) and Ohio Women's Bar Associations. She is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

Suzana is a member of the CMBA's Certified Grievance Committee and was the 2010 Co-Chair for the William J. O'Neill Regional Bankruptcy Institute.

Articles/Presentations

• Speaker, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Fall Seminar Introduction to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, “Automatic Stay and Relief from the Automatic Stay; Adequate Protection,” December 9, 2009
  
• Co-speaker, Porter Wright seminar Receiverships and Examining an Expert Witness, December 9, 2009
  
• Speaker, Bankruptcy Law Update, NBI, "Interplay of Bankruptcy and the Real Estate Crisis" and "Answers from Both Sides: Creditor and Debtor Perspectives," Cleveland, April 2, 2009
  
• Co-author, "Case Study: Receiverships - A New Spin on an Old Record," Litigation Spectrum, March/April 2009
  

Admissions

• State of Ohio
• Supreme Court of the United States
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit  
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit