Kellie Fisher

Practice Areas

Kellie Fisher focuses her practice on bankruptcy matters, commercial litigation, and transactions involving distressed companies. Kellie routinely represents financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors (including official and ad hoc committees), lenders, debtors, equity holders, and trustees.

Kellie has substantial bankruptcy and litigation experience in New England and around the country. With a sophisticated understanding of the restructuring legal landscape, she advises clients on all aspects of the restructuring and bankruptcy process, including DIP lending and cash collateral issues, plan negotiation and drafting, section 363 sales, adversary proceedings, contested matters, and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. Kellie also routinely represents parties in out-of-court debt restructurings, Article 9 and real estate foreclosures, receiverships, debtor/creditor litigation, lender liability litigation, and other general commercial litigation.

Recent examples of Kellie’s representation include secured lenders in numerous Subchapter V bankruptcy cases, the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Calais Regional Hospital bankruptcy case, and the largest creditor in a contested sale trial in the IDL Development, Inc. Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. She also successfully represented a Vermont-based textile firm as the debtor in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and restructured millions of dollars in debt in the process.

Professional Memberships

-Chair, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maine Local Rules Committee

-Co-Chair, New England Network International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation

-American Bankruptcy Institute, Northeast Conference Advisory Board Member (2022-2025)

-Turnaround Management Association

-Maine State Bar Association

Publications

-Supreme Court May Consider Whether Tribal Sovereign Immunity Is Abrogated by Bankruptcy Code, American Bankruptcy Institute, Nov. 27, 2019.

-“Untangling the Sub V Eligibility Criteria for Individual Debtors”, ABI Journal, Oct. 2023.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

-Maine

-Massachusetts

-New York

-U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

-U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

-U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Education

Awards