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Mr. Palmer is the Founder and Managing Partner of West Lane Partners. Previously he restructured businesses for some of the largest corporate clients in America as a bankruptcy law partner at three top firms: Weil Gotshal & Manges; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw. Mr. Palmer was the lead lawyer for the U.S. Department of Treasury on the General Motors and Chrysler bankruptcies — the largest bailouts in American history. He founded an International Bankruptcy practice in China. He served as lead counsel on the restructuring of the biggest private bailout loan in the LyondellBasell Chapter 11 case. He also was the lead lawyer on restructurings for the Detroit Public Schools, the Detroit Medical Center, and the Louis Berger Group, among many others. He holds a BA from Syracuse University and a JD from the University of Michigan School of Law.

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Mr. Jackson is General Counsel and a Managing Partner at West Lane Partners. Previously, he was a partner at Herrick Feinstein LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP where he was the Co-Chair of the Global Finance Practice and was a senior corporate attorney and advisor to, among others, major private equity firms and financial institutions. His practice included (i) M&A and divestiture transactions and (ii) commercial lending, capital markets, restructurings, private placements, and mezzanine financings. His transaction experience includes extensive work in the restructuring/workout space including billion-dollar transactions involving 360Networks and Superior Essex. Mr. Jackson graduated from Fordham University, B.A., cum laude; Columbia University School of Business, M.B.A., Columbia Law School, J.D., and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

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Mr. Devers is a Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of West Lane Partners.  Previously Jeff was the former Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Imperium Partners, an investment firm that specialized in secured lending. Before this, Jeff was the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Palladin Group, an investment firm that specialized in non-merger arbitrage and structured finance. Jeff was also a Co-founder of Ramius Capital Group, later purchased by Cowen and Company. Overall, Jeff has managed varied and diverse strategies focused on capital preservation and risk mitigation while producing meaningful non-correlated returns, particularly on a risk-adjusted basis. He also previously served as the Chairman of Entelos, Inc., a publically traded company, and also served on the Board of Directors of Unity Bancorp, Inc., a publically traded company.  Jeff holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration from Penn State. He is also a licensed CPA.

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