Robert Charbonneau

Practice Areas

Robert P. Charbonneau focuses on business restructuring, dispute resolution, and insolvency matters. He has broad experience representing statutory committees, including creditors’ committees, and bankruptcy litigation.

Career

Robert P. Charbonneau is a founding member of Agentis. His practice focuses on bankruptcy litigation, complex commercial disputes, Chapter 11 debtor representation, and court-appointed fiduciary matters. With decades of experience in restructuring and insolvency-related litigation, he represents debtors, creditors, trustees, committees, and other stakeholders in high-stakes disputes arising in bankruptcy and financially distressed situations.

Bob is widely recognized for his work in bankruptcy courts, where he regularly handles adversary proceedings and contested matters involving fraudulent transfers, fiduciary disputes, and directors and officers liability litigation. His practice also includes representing and advising court-appointed fiduciaries, including receivers and trustees, in matters involving distressed businesses, real estate assets, and fraud-related investigations.

In addition to his litigation practice, Bob serves as a court-appointed receiver, helping guide the stabilization, administration, and resolution of troubled enterprises and asset portfolios. His experience across debtor, creditor, and fiduciary roles provides clients and courts with a comprehensive understanding of the legal and practical issues that arise in restructuring and insolvency proceedings.

He serves as outside counsel for Florida’s Attorney General in the bankruptcy case of In re: Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., Case No. 19-23649 (RDD).

He is a member of the Florida Bar, the U.S. District Court - Southern District of Florida, U.S. District Court - Middle District of Florida, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

PRIOR AFFILIATIONS

- Partner, Ehrenstein Charbonneau Calderin

- Partner, Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin

Professional Memberships

Co-chair Florida Bar Business Law Section’s Bankruptcy Judicial Liaison Committee

Chair Florida Bar Business Law Section’s New Sponsorship Committee, 2026

Secretary, Bankruptcy Section Executive Council, Commercial Law League of America

Legislative Committee, Commercial Law League of America (CCLA), Past Chair

Florida Bar Business Law Section’s Bankruptcy & UCC Committee, Former Chair

Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida, Former President

Chair, Broward County Bar Association, Commercial Law Section

Member, American Bankruptcy Institute

Member, Dade County Bar Association

Member, Cuban American Bar Association

Publications

Small Businesses Hurt by Pandemic Face Looming Deadline on Subchapter V - Miami Daily Business Review, 10/28/2021; Regardless of When It Gets Here: Plan Now for the Coming Recession - Miami Daily Business Review, 01/18/2019

Personal

J.D., Boston College Law School; B.A., University of Florida

Experience

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

- Bankruptcy counsel for the State of Florida Attorney General in the Insys Therapeutics, Purdue Pharma and Endo International Pharmaceuticals cases

- Represented Chair of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Vital Pharmaceuticals, which manufactured Bang energy drinks

- Co-lead counsel for Liquidating Trustee in pursuit and settlement of directors & officers’ liability claims against former directors of Chapter 11 entity RMS Titanic, Inc., which owned the exclusive salvage rights and approximately 5200 artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck

- Representation of an ad hoc committee of construction lien claimants in the Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankruptcy case. Successfully argued for priming liens in excess of $300 million over the priority of nearly $1 billion in existing bank debt before the Nevada Supreme Court and two federal courts in Florida

- Representation of the creditors committee in Hear USA, a publicly traded hearing aid manufacturer and retailer

- Served as counsel to the statutory committee of Deposit Holders in the Levitt Homes bankruptcy case

- Lead Debtor’s counsel in the Pan American Hospital case, then the largest independent not-for-profit hospital in South Florida

- Lead Committee Counsel in both the Suncruz Casinos and ITG Vegas cases involving fleets of gambling vessels

- Ongoing representations across the country of funds in the enforcement of their debt instruments in various Chapter 11 proceedings

Awards