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Robert Fishman is the co-chair of the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors Rights practice at Shaw Gussis. His practice is concentrated in the areas of debtor-creditor relations, insolvency and bankruptcy, representing a wide range of clients in business cases throughout the United States. He has extensive participation in all aspects of bankruptcy cases, including significant representation of Trustees, Debtors in Possession, Creditors’ Committees and Equity Committees, secured and unsecured creditors, purchasers of assets and litigants in bankruptcy adversary proceedings. Additionally, he has considerable experience in the area of informal, out-of-court workouts and assignments for the benefit of creditors. Mr. Fishman has represented clients in numerous industries, including health care, telecommunications, manufacturing, real estate, retail, transportation, and financial services.
Mr. Fishman is currently serving as lead bankruptcy counsel to Bachrach Clothing, Inc., as Debtor in Possession, pending in Illinois. He is also special counsel to the post confirmation Exide Corporation (Delaware). He is currently serving as lead counsel to the Chapter 7 trustees of McCook Metals, LLC (Illinois) and Jore Corporation (Montana). He is also counsel to the Liquidating Trustee in the cases of Commercial Financial Services (Oklahoma) and Mego Financial (Nevada). Previously, Mr. Fishman was lead bankruptcy counsel to the Debtor in Possession in the cases of Ingersoll International, Inc., et al. (Illinois), AR Accessories Group, Inc. (Wisconsin), The Wallet Works, Inc. (Wisconsin), Appliance Control Group, Inc. (Illinois), Telesphere Communications, Inc., et al. (Illinois), and Adventist Living Centers, Inc. (Illinois). Mr. Fishman was lead bankruptcy counsel to the Chapter 11 Trustee of Commercial Loan Corporation (Illinois), litigation counsel to the Liquidating Trustee in the Megafoods, Inc. case (Arizona), co-counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of Bondholders in the Wickes, Inc. case (Illinois), counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of 2001A Bondholders in the United Airlines, Inc. case (Illinois), and represented the Official Equity Committee in the case of Advanced Lighting, Inc. (Illinois). He was lead counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of Non-Equity Partners in the Keck, Mahin & Cate case (Illinois) and the Altheimer & Grey case (Illinois).
Mr. Fishman has significant experience, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, in the analysis, drafting and litigation of numerous cases seeking the avoidance of preferential transfers and fraudulent conveyances. In the cases of Santa Fe Trail Transportation Company, B.N. Transport, Inc., and Telesphere Communications, Inc., et al., he was lead counsel for the plaintiff in hundreds of preference cases, ranging from the garden variety type to the extremely complex, resulting in the recovery of multiple millions of dollars for those bankruptcy estates. In those same cases, he was one of the lead counsel in fraudulent conveyance/preference cases against the various lenders, involving alleged claims of over $10,000,000 in the aggregate in the Santa Fe/BN Transport cases and $50,000,000 in the Telesphere cases. Mr. Fishman was lead counsel to the Estate Representative of the Megafoods Liquidation Estate in the hundreds of preference and fraudulent conveyance cases brought in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona. He was one of the lead counsel for the Trustee in the fraudulent conveyance and breach of fiduciary duty cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois in the McCook Metals, LLC case. He is currently lead counsel to the Chapter 7 Trustee of Jore Corporation in the numerous preference cases filed by the Trustee in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Montana. He is also currently one of the lead counsel for the CFS Liquidating Trust in the fraudulent conveyance case pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma in the Commercial Financial Services case. Further, he was one of the plaintiff’s counsel in Levit v. Ingersoll Rand (In re Deprizio Construction).
EDUCATION
University of Illinois (BA, 1976)
George Washington University School of Law (JD, 1979).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Bankruptcy Institute (Chairman of the Board of Directors [1999-2000], Immediate Past President [1998-1999], President [1997-1998], Member, Executive Committee [1992-2000], Member, Board of Directors [1989-2002])
American Bar Association: (Business Bankruptcy Committee, Secured Creditors and U.S. Trustee subcommittees)
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association (Member, Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law Section Council [1998-2002])
National Association of Credit Managers-Oregon, Inc. (Bankruptcy and Insolvency Group)
The George Washington University Law Alumni Association (Board of Directors [1997- 2001])
Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy (Class of 1998)
LICENSES AND ADMISSIONS
Admitted to bar, 1979, Illinois, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois including the Trial Bar, United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, United States District Court, District of Minnesota, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and Eighth Circuit.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
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