Brian L Shaw

Practice Areas

Brian focuses his practice on financial restructuring, bankruptcy, and other in- and out-of-court distressed solutions, along with attendant litigation, representing debtors, creditors, and other parties-in-interest in proceedings throughout the country. For more than thirty years, he has guided Chapter 11 debtors, Chapter 7 and 11 trustees, creditors’ and noteholders’ committees, assignees, landlords, liquidating trustees, labor organizations, preference and fraudulent conveyance defendants, receivers, and secured and unsecured creditors through all aspects of bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring.

Professional Memberships

Chair of Board of Regents, American College of Bankruptcy

Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy

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Past president, past chair, past vice president of membership, American Bankruptcy Institute

Past chair, Bankruptcy and Reorganization Section, Chicago Bar Association

Past member, University of Illinois College of Law, Recent Alumni Advisory Board

Education