Maria Carr

Maria focuses her practice on corporate restructuring, commercial bankruptcy, business counseling, and creditors’ rights matters. As a Member in the firm’s Strategic Advisory and Restructuring Department, she frequently counsels businesses and fiduciaries in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, state or federal receiverships, out-of-court workouts, or other insolvency proceedings and commercial matters. Maria also represents secured and unsecured creditors in these proceedings and handles litigation arising from and related to bankruptcy or receivership cases. Maria also has experience representing purchasers of assets of distressed businesses and liquidating trustees in various bankruptcy and distressed matters. Maria also previously served as counsel for a national distressed debt buyer, where she analyzed, negotiated, and litigated claims against the company under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and numerous other statutes in bankruptcy, federal and state courts across the country.

Maria earned her J.D., cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She received a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.