2026 Sponsors
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $1500 for 2026:
2026 Patrons and Sponsors
Benefactors |Sustaining Patrons | Patrons | Sponsors | Supporters
Richard P. Carmody
John A. Thomson, Jr.
https://www.adamsandreese.com/experience/practices/commercial-restructuring-and-bankruptcy
Adams and Reese is one of the largest regional law firms in the United States. We have over 300 attorneys and government relations professionals in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C. As an Am Law 200 firm, we take a progressive approach to the professional services we provide our clients, as well as the way we manage our firm internally. Our primary commitment is to provide our clients with the highest quality services in the most prompt, cost effective and efficient manner possible.
The Adams and Reese Commercial Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice thrives on a collaborative, multi-office approach. Clients commend the model that harnesses attorney strengths across various practice areas, notably the Financial Services team. Rejecting silos, they emphasize collaboration, yielding innovative solutions while enhancing efficiency
Adelman & Gettleman is a boutique law firm specializing in commercial insolvency, out of court restructurings, bankruptcy, going-concern and asset sales, and related commercial litigation. With over 40 years devoted entirely to helping clients resolve their financial difficulties, the Firm enjoys a reputation among its peers and adversaries for getting complicated jobs done efficiently and effectively. Through its significant experience, the Firm is able to adeptly advise its clients in navigating through the many obstacles arising in troubled debtor-creditor relationships.
E. Franklin Childress, Jr.
Jan M. Hayden
Timothy M. Lupinacci
https://www.bakerdonelson.com/
Baker Donelson is a national law firm with more than 650 attorneys and public policy advisors representing more than 30 practice areas to serve a wide range of legal needs. Clients receive knowledgeable guidance from experienced, multi-disciplined industry and client service teams, all seamlessly connected across 22 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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Blanco Tackabery is a full service law firm located in the heart of the Triad Region of North Carolina in Winston-Salem. Blanco Tackabery’s Business Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights Practice Group has extensive experience representing financial institutions, businesses and individuals through the difficult and often adversarial process of distressed debt resolution and problem loan recovery.
Burr & Forman has one of the largest bankruptcy practice groups in the Southeast, with over 30 attorneys concentrating in this area of law in the Southeast and beyond. Burr’s creditors’ rights and bankruptcy experience is extensive in the manufacturing, real estate development, automotive, mining, food and beverage, health care, agriculture, retail, and construction industries, professional organizations, among others. On the creditor side, Burr represents financial services institutions, asset-based lenders, and local, regional, and national banks, as well as REITs, equipment sellers, and lessors. Along with the firm’s expanding representation in creditors’ rights cases, Burr also counsels and represents business entities experiencing financial distress. On the Debtor and Committee side, our attorneys have substantial experience in the representation of Debtors and estate fiduciaries in the areas of manufacturers, educational institutions, professional services organizations, retailers, real estate developers, private equity, OEMs and auto parts manufacturers, and health care providers in workouts and insolvency proceedings. For additional information, please visit www.burr.com.
James E. Bailey III
Stephen W. Rosenblatt
David S. Rubin
Martin A. Sosland
Butler Snow LLP is a full-service law firm with nearly 400 attorneys collaborating across a network of more than 25 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
The firm provides a full range of services in bankruptcy cases and restructurings, representing debtors, creditors, trustees and committees across the country. Our attorneys represent business and individual clients in all transactional and litigation aspects of out-of-court workouts, bankruptcy, business reorganizations and debtor-creditor matters. In addition to providing representation to creditors and debtors, our experienced team also works with clients seeking to invest in or acquire key assets or on-going business operations from troubled entities or those in bankruptcy.
Our team also routinely litigates a wide array of bankruptcy issues including avoidance actions, issues relating to relief from the automatic stay, adequate protection and use of cash collateral, assumption or rejection of executor contracts or unexpired leases, sale of property, adequacy of disclosure statements, confirmations of reorganization plans, discharge and dischargeability complaints, and defense of avoidance actions.
Butler Snow provides bankruptcy and restructuring clients with the knowledge and expertise of attorneys and professionals across practices within the firm, enabling clients to efficiently receive full representation in areas such as real estate, lending and finance, healthcare, tax, labor and employment, M&A, banking, and intellectual property. For more information, visit ButlerSnow.com.
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Douglas A. Campbell
Stanley E. Levine
Campbell & Levine, LLC is a leading commercial banruptcy, transactional and public finance firm with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wilminton, Delaware.The firm has concentrated its practice in the area of insolvency law and debtors' and creditors' rights, evolving from representing individual debtors and trustees in consumer and small business bankruptcy cases to representing debtors and creditors in major reoganizations and out-of-court workouts.
DSI Consulting is a leading provider of management consulting and financial advisory services, including turnaround consulting, liquidating trustee, financial restructure, litigation support and forensic accounting. Our clients include business owners, corporate management and boards of directors, financial services institutions, secured lenders, bondholders, unsecured creditors and creditor committees.
Since 1977, DSI Consulting has been guided by a single objective: Maximizing value for all stakeholders. With our highly skilled team of professionals, offices throughout the United States and in Europe, and an unparalleled range of experience, DSI Consulting not only achieves that objective, but has also built a solid reputation as an industry leader.
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D.R. Payne & Associates, Inc. is a Restructuring Advisory and Fiduciary Services Firm (CRO, trustee, receiver) which has been serving smaller and middle market businesses and their stakeholders in financially, operationally and managerially challenged, illiquid and insolvent situations for over 30 years. DRPA’s team members are also trained, experienced and certified in the add-on areas of forensic accounting, fractional/outsourced CFO services, valuation, recovery action/litigation support, damage/claim assessments, transactional advisory, and tax consulting services including, related expert testimony, in order to seamlessly support the integrated delivery of restructuring advisory and fiduciary services. DRPA is headquartered in Oklahoma City and serves stakeholders of businesses located primarily in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas.
Engelman Berger is comprised of experienced lawyers who are well recognized for their expertise and the ability to bring about positive results for clients. We are committed to excellent legal representation designed to get commercial disputes resolved in a way that meets our clients’ goals. Our clients range from publicly traded companies to family-owned businesses in a wide array of industries. We provide services focused in the commercial and business law areas. Typical clients include commercial lenders, real estate developers, franchise owners, municipalities and investors. Our expertise in bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law has been established over a 20-year track record that we are proud of. Our experience and “bench strength” in the bankruptcy and debtor/creditor area is extraordinary for our local small firm. Our lawyers are active in the Arizona bankruptcy bar, national bankruptcy organizations and related professional and civic activities. We have strong and longstanding client relationships built on the trust that is rooted in our spirited advocacy, experience, and creativity. Learn more at eblaw.com.
https://www.eversheds-sutherland.com/
Eversheds Sutherland’s Restructuring and Insolvency team works closely and collaboratively with all relevant stakeholders to achieve outcomes that matter to them. Our experienced team handles a wide range of bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, including renegotiating or refinancing debt facilities, restructuring equity stakes and guiding clients through insolvency or enforcement processes when needed. We collaborate with global colleagues from various practice areas, such as finance, private equity, pensions, employment, real estate and tax, to provide integrated solutions for successful outcomes. The team has a strong track record in complex, multi-jurisdictional restructurings, focusing our efforts on advising distressed companies, insolvency practitioners, creditors, private equity houses, banks and other financial institutions. Whether our clients are facing financial distress or seeking strategic advice, our team is well equipped to navigate the complexities of restructuring and insolvency matters. However, when litigation becomes necessary, our team succeeds, including victories in several landmark decisions in bankruptcy, state, and federal courts.
Fowler Bell PLLC, located in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, is dedicated to representing our clients in an effective and efficient manner, adding a personal touch to each of their specific needs. Fowler Bell practices in Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Groups and Insurance Litigation representing local and national clients in a variety of industries including insurance, heavy equipment, equine, coal, oil and gas production, and e-commerce. Our clients turn to us knowing they will receive the upmost professional and personalized legal experience. To learn more, please visit our website at www.fowlerlaw.com.
James L. Baillie
Clinton E. Cutler
Ryan T. Murphy
Fredrikson & Byron is a more than 400 attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Bismarck, Des Moines, Fargo, St. Paul, Saltillo, Mexico, and Shanghai, China. We’ve built a reputation as the firm “where law and business meet” by bringing business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking to our work, and by operating as business advisors and strategic partners as well as legal counselors. Fredrikson & Byron’s bankruptcy, restructuring and workout team is known for our services to debtor or creditor clients, receivers and assignees, and buyers. We handle bankruptcy reorganization cases, out-of-court restructuring, workouts, and receiverships and assignments for benefit of creditors. We have expertise representing clients in diverse industries, including: manufacturing, healthcare, energy, mining, real estate and construction, retail/ entertainment, food/agriculture, services, professionals, receiverships, finance, and charitable and religious organizations. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com
Brad Eric Scheler
Rachel C. Strickland
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP advises the world's leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions on their most critical legal needs and business opportunities. The Firm's approximately 500 lawyers are based in North America and Europe. The Firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Practice is multidisciplinary with integrated resources that cover all fronts and a reputation for excellence, broad-based experience, creative and efficiency. With attorneys resident in the Firm's New York and London offices, the practice represents a wide range of clients in US, UK and cross-border matters, including both formal bankruptcies/insolvencies and out-of-court restructurings of financially troubled companies. Clients include creditors’, bondholders’ and equity committees, secured and unsecured creditors, corporate debtors, trustees, lenders and other sources of financing and parties interested in acquiring assets and businesses from chapter 11 debtors and other financially troubled companies.
G. Blaine Schwabe III
Sidney K. Swinson
GableGotwals is a full-service law firm with nearly 100 attorneys and more than 70 other professionals in Oklahoma and Texas. We represent a diversified client base across the nation, and our connections and reach are global. Fortune 500 corporations, privately owned companies, entrepreneurs, foundations, and individuals entrust us every day with the stewardship and strategic management of their legal challenges.
Timothy F. Nixon
Katherine Stadler
Brady C. Williamson
Godfrey & Kahn is a full-service corporate law firm with offices throughout Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. providing high-level service and creative legal solutions to our clients. For over 65 years we have been guided by a simple idea - judge our success by the success of our clients.
Ronald Barliant
Randall L. Klein
Goldberg Kohn is one of the nation's leading bankruptcy and restructuring firms in the middle-market. The Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group has a reputation for being cutting-edge in its legal positions and best practices, as well as for being creative and sophisticated deal-makers. The firm represents many of the nation's largest banks, financial institutions, and hedge funds. Whether or not the firm originally documented a deal, agents, lenders, and participants seek the group's result-driven and efficient approach to troubled credits.
Gray & Company LLC is a practice specializing in providing restructuring and fiduciary services to clients and courts nationwide. Its professionals have led successful operational and financial restructuring of hundreds of matters, serving as CEO, CRO, trustee, receiver, restructuring advisor and independent director.
https://www.harrisbeachmurtha.com/
Harris Beach Murtha has more than 250 lawyers working across 17 offices, with a Northeast presence and global reach. Harris Beach Murtha’s Financial Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group has represented creditors, debtors and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings, and primarily creditors in workout, foreclosure and creditors’ rights litigation for decades. We assist our clients in navigating the countless statutes and complex procedures involved in these proceedings. Our attorneys represent bankruptcy trustees and examiners, indenture trustees and other fiduciaries in all areas of disputes. We defend financial institutions and other entities in check fraud and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)-based disputes. We help clients in a wide array of industries to ensure financial restructuring, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues are resolved to their best benefit and we achieve optimal results. We serve as court-appointed trustees and trustee counsel, as receivers and referees in bankruptcy and foreclosure matters, and we provide extensive legal counsel in commercial and financial planning, debt refinancing and restructuring, commercial contract dispute resolution, bankruptcy, foreclosure, distressed investments, commercial and consumer collection and UCC compliance. Our work also includes assisting financially distressed organizations in corporate and partnership restructurings, receiverships and dissolutions outside of bankruptcy. The firm also has assisted potential purchasers of assets from troubled companies both in and out of bankruptcy
Leonard H. Gilbert
John J. Monaghan
Samuel J. Zusmann, Jr.
Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers and other professionals in 28 offices throughout the world. Our lawyers provide representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with access to attorneys throughout the firm, regardless of location. www.hklaw.com
KapilaMukamal is one of the foremost insolvency/creditors' rights and litigation consulting practices in Florida. KapilaMukamal's team of top professionals is committed to maintaining the highest level of quality and creativity in providing business-specific expertise to address clients' needs in the areas of insolvency and restructuring, Ponzi schemes, fraud investigations, insolvency taxation, business valuation, litigation support in a wide gamut of industries. KM is regarded as a leader in providing services in the areas of creditors' rights matters, distressed business turnaround, complex commercial litigaiton support including measurement of lost profits and damages.
Eve H. Karasik
Gary E. Klausner
John N. Tedford, IV
Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Golubchik L.L.P. (“LNBYG”) is a nationally recognized insolvency law firm located in Los Angeles, California. The firm’s team of award winning lawyers has earned a reputation for proactive and successful resolution of bankruptcy, insolvency and business reorganization issues facing a wide-range of clients. LNBYG consistently finds innovative and cost-sensitive ways to achieve the best results for its clients. The members of LNBYG have experience in handling complex and difficult cases in all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency practice including debtors, creditors' committees, equity committees, purchasers, principals and secured and unsecured creditors from a broad spectrum of industries including retail, real estate, entertainment, manufacturing, distribution and service.
Charles R. Bennett,
D. Ethan Jeffery
Harold B. Murphy
Murphy & King, P.C.’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group is a regional leader in the field. We deploy our skills as negotiators, litigators and transactional advocates to navigate the fast-paced and often contentious landscape of financial distress on behalf of our clients in a wide range of sectors, including real estate, hospitality, health care, technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and retail. Our team has substantial experience litigating complex adversary proceedings involving avoidance actions, lender liability and fiduciary responsibilities. We regularly represent Chapter 11 debtors and Chapter 11 trustees, as well as other principal stakeholders in Chapter 11 cases. Additionally, we serve as Chapter 11 trustee, Chapter 7 trustee, examiner, receiver and counsel to receiver in state and federal court actions, and as assignee for the benefit of creditors in state law insolvency proceedings.
Phillips Lytle’s bankruptcy and creditors’ rights attorneys artfully blend legal and financial acumen to the benefit of creditors and debtors alike. Our attorneys have been involved in cases of national and international significance, and have expertise in all aspects of federal bankruptcy law as well as state and international laws governing secured transactions, creditors’ rights, fraudulent and other avoidable conveyances, cross-border refinancings and restructurings, corporate reorganizations and real estate. We also represent all types of secured and unsecured creditors as well as bankruptcy and indenture trustees, receivers, debtors, landlords, lessees, acquirers, vendors and suppliers, and official creditor and equity committees. Visit us at www.phillipslytle.com
https://www.plunkettcooney.com/
Established in 1913, Plunkett Cooney is one of the Midwest's oldest and most accomplished full-service law firms in seven Michigan cities, Chicago, Illinois, Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm employs attorneys who provide counsel and advice to clients in numerous industries, including those in the banking and finance sectors. They have particular expertise in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, banking and finance, business transactions and planning, commercial litigation, real estate law and litigation and much more. Visit the firm’s website www.plunkettcooney.com to learn more or to explore our substantive legal blogs.
Riker Danzig LLP is a nationally recognized, full service law firm that has served the business community for over 140 years. With offices in Madison and Trenton, NJ as well as midtown Manhattan, Riker Danzig represents clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to middle market businesses. Riker Danzig;s Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Department is a highly respected practice group that has substantial experience in all aspects of commercial restructurings, bankruptcy litigation, reorganization , non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. The Group has earned a nationwide reputation for its representations of multiple constituents in commercial insolvency proceedings including institutional creditors, indenture trustees, Official Unsecured Creditor Committees, Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 Trustees, landlords, private equity groups, receivers and assignees for the benefit of creditors.
Headquartered in Miami and with an office in Washington, D.C., Sequor Law is an international law firm focusing on representing victims of financial fraud, including sovereign governments and state-owned enterprises, public and non-public companies, insolvency practitioners, and all manner of clients in the areas of asset recovery, financial fraud, cross-border insolvency, and international litigation and arbitration. www.sequorlaw.com.
Scott J. Goldstein
Richard F. Holley
Eric L. Johnson
James A. Lodoen
At Spencer Fane, your business leaders work with our business leaders. We provide an unconventional approach to legal services geared toward protecting and advancing business and personal interests. Our clients are certain that their interests are our priority, because they work with leaders – leaders who work decisively, execute with purpose and understand the importance of flawless timing. Be certain.
Among the 250 largest law firms in the country, Stevens & Lee is a full-service law firm with more than 185 lawyers serving clients from 17 offices. Our lawyers provide strategic and practical legal counsel at both the regional and national levels and remain dedicated to solving clients’ most complex problems and delivering an exceptional client experience. Client responsiveness with an emphasis on work quality is instilled in all of our professionals. We spend considerable time getting to know our clients and the industries in which they compete so we can deal with legal issues from our clients’ economic perspectives and help them find ways to increase their revenues or reduce their expenses. A more comprehensive description of our firm, its history and detailed overviews of each of our practice areas can be found at www.stevenslee.com.
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Mark V. Bossi
Francis X. Buckley, Jr.
David A. Warfield
https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/
Thompson Coburn’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy practice represents clients throughout the United States in virtually all types of corporate recovery, bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Thompson Coburn has offices in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and now New York.
Susan M. Cook
Rozanne M. Giunta
By providing discerning and proactive legal advice, Warner Norcross + Judd LLP builds a better partnership with our clients. One of Michigan’s largest law firms, with over 230 attorneys working in 50+ specialty areas, we are focused on providing the best legal solutions and exceptional client service to organizations throughout the world
https://www.wolfsonbolton.com/
Wolfson Bolton Kochis PLLC is Michigan's premier boutique business law firm. Our corporate services include restructuring and corporate bankruptcy, full-service litigation, financing, real estate, regulatory compliance, automotive supply chain, and mergers and acquisitions. Our commitment is to provide sophisticated representation and expert guidance with personalized attention..
Celebrating 125 years of service in 2025, Wright Lindsey Jennings is one of the premier law firms in Arkansas and the region, supporting businesses across a full range of litigation, corporate and transactional service areas. We have a deep bench with more than 200 years of combined experience in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Our team is actively involved in all aspects of bankruptcy practice in Arkansas, including representation of secured and unsecured creditors, creditor committees and trustees, as well as reorganization and liquidation of business debtors. Our capacity and experience have allowed us to serve as lead and local debtor’s counsel in significant Chapter 11 cases filed in Arkansas. Our bankruptcy attorneys work closely with our business transaction attorneys in insolvency cases involving asset sales. We also have substantial experience in all types of “out-of-court” workouts and restructurings, representing both debtors and creditors, in addition to replevins, real estate foreclosures and the representation of lenders in all types of litigated matters, such as the defense of lender liability claims.
Firmwide, many WLJ attorneys are consistently recognized by their peers as among the best in their areas of practice. The firm’s attorneys are also committed to excellence beyond the practice of law – serving and leading in local, regional and national professional and community organizations. WLJ received the Olivia Farrell Gender Equity Leadership Award from the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and the Smart Corporate Giving Award from the Arkansas Community Foundation. WLJ has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” in Arkansas every year since 2018 and was the Arkansas Business “Best of Biz” winner in the legal category in 2024. Today, Wright Lindsey Jennings has 77 attorneys practicing in Little Rock and Rogers. Visit www.WLJ.com to learn more.