Jeffrey M Schlerf

Practice Areas

Entertainment and Sports

Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights

Corporate

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Sports Law Committee Chair

American Bankruptcy Institute

Delaware State Bar Association

Pennsylvania State Bar Association

Sports Law Association

Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors

Bar Association of Third Federal Circuit

Education

Experience

Jeffrey focuses his practice on financial restructuring and corporate reorganization and sports law. He has experience representing all types of parties in many of the largest restructurings in the United States since the 1990’s. Jeffrey has been a part-owner of a minor league baseball team since 2014 and currently is the chair of the ABA’s Sports Law Committee. He is pursuing a graduate degree in Sports Management at Georgetown University.

Jeffrey's career highlights include representation of Major League Baseball in the Los Angeles Dodgers case and a bidder in the Dallas Stars restructuring. He has significant experience in representing distressed companies going through reorganization, as well as ad hoc creditor committees and other senior parties in some of the largest cases in Delaware, including Washington Mutual and Energy Future Holdings.

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