Cherie Nobles

Practice Areas

Cherie Dessauer Nobles focuses her practice on bankruptcy and debtor-creditor rights, representing a broad range of clients—from large, complex companies to smaller businesses—in chapter 11 and chapter 7 proceedings and out-of-court restructurings.

Career

Cherie has experience advising debtors, trustees, unsecured creditors’ committees, and individual creditors in complex commercial bankruptcies and related workout matters.

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.

She frequently speaks on topics in bankruptcy law, most recently serving as a panelist at the 28th and 27th Louisiana State University Annual Bankruptcy Law Conferences.

Professional Memberships

• Association for Women Attorneys – New Orleans, Member

• International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Former Co-Chair, Louisiana Chapter

• New Orleans Bar Association, Former Committee Chair, Bankruptcy Section

Work Highlights

Cherie was part of the Fishman Haygood team that served as bankruptcy counsel to Clark, Love & Hutson, a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee representing approximately 15,000 claimants in the 3M Combat Arms Earplug MDL, the largest multidistrict litigation in U.S. history. Following a landmark trial victory allowing the MDL to proceed, the litigation ultimately resulted in a historic global settlement for military veterans asserting hearing-loss claims.

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