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, chapter 7 trustees, and liquidating and litigation 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, and other debtor/creditor litigation.

Recent examples of Kellie’s representation include the senior 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.

Kellie has received many professional accolades for her work. She is recognized as “One to Watch” in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law by Best Lawyers and was ranked as “One to Watch” in Bankruptcy and Restructuring by Chambers and Partners USA, Maine Guide. She is the co-chair of the board of the New England chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). Kellie is also an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), has spoken at the ABI Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, and has published articles for ABI. Prior to joining Drummond Woodsum, Kellie was a restructuring attorney at an international law firm in Boston.

Clients

Representative Clients & Matters:

In re Calais Regional Hospital: Kellie represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 case of a rural critical access hospital. The team successfully negotiated a Chapter 11 plan with the senior secured lenders that sold the hospital to a strategic partner, which preserved a rural healthcare provider, saved jobs, and maximized the recovery for all creditors.

Calais Regional Hospital Litigation Trust: Kellie represented the Litigation Trustee of the Calais Regional Hospital Litigation Trust. In the course of that representation, Kellie litigated many preference actions, resulting in significant value for general unsecured creditors.

In re Anichini Inc.: Kellie was counsel to debtors Anichini Inc. and its affiliate in their chapter 11 cases in Vermont. The company successfully reorganized and restructured millions of dollars of debt.

In re Sure Winner Foods: Kellie represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 case of Sure Winner Foods, in which unsecured creditors received a 100% distribution.

In re IDL Development: Kellie successfully represented the largest creditor in a contested sale trial in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of IDL Development, Inc. The team successfully protected the client’s interests in certain intellectual property and preserved claims against the debtor and the purchaser of the debtor’s assets.

Subchapter V Representations: Kellie has represented the senior secured creditors in numerous Subchapter V cases.

Kellie represented a construction company in breach of contract litigation, resulting in a six-figure settlement for the benefit of the construction company.