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Mark Rasmussen joined the firm in 1997 and is a partner in the Special Litigation, Bankruptcy and Workouts Group. Prior to joining Chapman and Cutler LLP, he spent five years practicing in the area of commercial litigation where he participated in cases in both state and federal courts. Mr. Rasmussen's broad base of experience includes the representation of commercial lenders, institutional investors, indenture trustees, shareholder and bondholder constituencies, creditors, and unsecured creditor committees in bankruptcy proceedings and ancillary commercial litigation. Mr. Rasmussen has handled or participated in a wide variety of matters involving such issues as negotiating cash collateral and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing agreements and orders, collateral disposition (including aircraft disposition and foreclosures as well as section 363 asset sales), indenture trustee/mortgagee rights and obligations under trust indentures and mortgage agreements, second lien financing/intercreditor agreement issues, plan confirmation and related settlement negotiations, refinancings, defaulted securities, debt restructurings, business reorganizations, and workouts. Mr. Rasmussen further has litigation experience in matters involving fraudulent transfers and preferences, equitable subordination, enforcement of contract rights, security interests and liens, adversary proceedings and lien challenges, third-party discovery matters, and bankruptcy and state-law rights and remedies. In 2007, Mr. Rasmussen was named one of the 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, publisher of the Chicago Lawyer and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. | 