Cherie Nobles

Practice Areas

Cherie Dessauer Nobles is special counsel in Fishman Haygood's Litigation Section. She works in the bankruptcy practice group of the firm and concentrates on debtor and creditor rights.

Career

Cherie has experience in representing large, complex companies and small companies in bankruptcy. Her experience includes representation of debtors, trustees, unsecured creditors’ committees, and creditors in commercial bankruptcy and workout business cases in chapter 11 and chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.

As part of the firm's bankruptcy team, Cherie has had significant experience successfully representing creditors’ committees in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, including Energy XXI, Louisiana Heart Hospital, Acadiana Management Group, Petroquest Energy and Seahawk Drilling, and debtors, like Knight Energy Holdings and Harvest Oil & Gas, in major bankruptcy cases. The team has been a key participant in bankruptcy cases and workouts across the country.

Cherie also served as part of the Fishman Haygood team that provided bankruptcy counsel to the law firm Clark, Love & Hutson (“CLH”), which is a member of the Plaintiff Steering Committee representing approximately 15,000 claimants in the pending multidistrict 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products liability litigation (the largest MDL ever) at the center of the bankruptcy cases filed by Aearo Technologies LLC and six affiliated debtors on Jul. 26, 2022. On Aug. 26, 2022, after a days-long trial, the United States Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana - Indianapolis Division ruled in favor of CLH’s clients and similarly situated military veterans with hearing loss claims related to 3M earplugs. This was a landmark ruling that allowed the claimants to continue the multidistrict litigation against 3M, a significant victory for the claimants. As a result, 3M and the claimants have recently reached a landmark settlement of the MDL.

She is also a frequent speaker, and most recently served as a panelist at the 28th and 27th Louisiana State University Annual Bankruptcy Law Conferences.

Professional Memberships

Cherie is the former co-chair of the Louisiana chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She previously served as committee chair for the bankruptcy section of the New Orleans Bar Association.