Ranked in 1 Practice Areas

Star Individuals

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Delaware

19 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Mark D Collins

USA

Practice Areas

  • Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring
  • Career

    Mark Collins is “one of the top restructuring lawyers in the country” (Chambers USA) and has received Chambers’ prestigious Star Individual ranking every year since 2012. Recognized as a leading bankruptcy lawyer both in the U.S. and internationally, Mark has been involved in hundreds of significant bankruptcy cases in Delaware. Chambers reports that “he gets strong results for his clients, and his work ethic and skill are top class.”

    Mark has served as counsel to hundreds of large troubled companies, secured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, creditors’ committees, boards of directors (including special or independent committees), and acquirers of businesses and assets in large corporate chapter 11 cases, pre-packaged chapter 11 cases, chapter 15 cases, and out-of-court restructurings. He is a frequent lecturer at national corporate restructuring and bankruptcy seminars.

    Professional Memberships

    • American Bankruptcy Institute: Asset Sales Advisory Committee to the Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 Co-Chair, Finance & Banking Committee Past Co-Chair, 40 Under 40 Steering Committee
    • Delaware State Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, Legislation Committee, Co-Chair
    • American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Business Bankruptcy Committee
    • Bankruptcy: Views from the Bench, ABI/Georgetown University Law Center, Board of Advisors
    • Publications

      • Editor, Credit Bidding in Bankruptcy Sales – A Guide for Lenders, Creditors and Distressed-Debt Investors, American Bankruptcy Institute, 2015
      • Work Highlights

        Lead Counsel

        • Anchor Blue Retail Group
        • Bowe Bell & Howell
        • Corinthian Colleges
        • Homer City Generation L.P.
        • Hoop Holdings (d/b/a The Disney Stores)
        • Linens n’ Things
        • Paragon Offshore plc
        • Phoenix Payment Systems (d/b/a EPX)
        • Reliant Energy Channelview
        • ResMAE Mortgage Company
        • The Rockport Company
        • Suntech America
        • Teleglobe Communications Corporation
        • TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
        • Urban Brands
        • WMC Mortgage, LLC
        • Zany Brainy
        • Co-Counsel

          • Advanced Marketing Systems
          • Allied Systems Holdings
          • Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.
          • Cal Dive International
          • Chaparral Energy, Inc.
          • Elpida Memory
          • Endeavour Operating Corp.
          • Energy Future Holdings, Inc.
          • Golfsmith International Holdings, Inc.
          • Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.
          • Hancock Fabrics, Inc.
          • Imerys Talc America, Inc.
          • Insys Therapeutics, Inc.
          • Magna Entertainment, Inc.
          • New Century Financial Corporation
          • Paragon Offshore Drilling, s.a.r.l.
          • Quiznos
          • TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
          • TK Holdings, Inc. (a/k/a Takata)
          • Tower Records
          • Tweeter Entertainment
          • Verso Corporation
          • Washington Mutual, Inc.
          • The Weinstein Company
          • Expert in these Jurisdictions

            • Delaware, 1991
            • United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
            • United States District Court, District of Delaware
            • Education

              American University, Washington College of Law

              J.D., summa cum laude

              Rutgers University

              B.A.

              Awards

            • American College of Bankruptcy Fellow
            • Chambers USA, Star Individual
            • Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers
            • The Best Lawyers in America, including Wilmington, DE Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
            • Super Lawyers
            • Who's Who Legal, Thought Leader in Restructuring and Insolvency
            • IFLR1000
            • Delaware Today Top Lawyer
            • Turnaround Management Association, Large Company – Transaction of the Year Award
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