Legal Series: Bankruptcy Litigation Updates in 2013

Nancy A. Peterman is chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Chicago Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice. She concentrates her practice on corporate restructurings, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights law, and has a wide range of experience representing debtors, purchasers of assets, committees and secured creditors.

Nancy is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute and former chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Bankruptcy & Reorganization Committee. Nancy assisted in drafting the healthcare bankruptcy provisions of the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, which were signed into law by President Bush on April 20, 2005. A frequent speaker and author, Nancy was co-editor in chief of Wiley Bankruptcy Law Update, assistant editor for West’s Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice treatise, and an assistant editor and a contributing author for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Health Care Insolvency Manual.

Nancy is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, listed in Chambers USA Guide, Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, and is a Board Certified Business Bankruptcy Lawyer by the American Board of Certification.

She earned her law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan.

Trevor Hoffmann is a partner in Haynes and Boone’s Bankruptcy and Business Restructuring Practice Group. He is based in the firm’s New York office. Trevor has experience representing public and private companies, hedge funds, private equity funds and financial institutions in distressed m&a transactions, workouts, reorganization proceedings, real estate transactions and commercial litigation.

Trevor has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers’ New York Rising Stars Metro Edition for the last three years.

After over two decades as a successful commercial litigator, Stefan Engelhardt now focuses his practice on bankruptcy litigation as a member of Morrison & Foerster’s Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Mr. Engelhardt applies his commercial litigation background, which includes extensive experience litigating commercial contract and commercial fraud cases on behalf of domestic and foreign commercial and financial entities, to assist the firm’s clients in all aspects of bankruptcy-related litigation and restructuring matters.

Mr. Engelhardt has substantial experience with litigation in all phases of a bankruptcy case — from contested early case motions through plan confirmation. He litigates adversary proceedings, claims and contested matters on behalf of both creditors and debtors, with the overarching objective of maximizing the client’s return on the creditor side or protecting debtor assets. He advises clients on the strategic use of litigation to marshal and protect assets, with the goal of reemerging from bankruptcy with a strong, workable plan of reorganization. Mr. Engelhardt also has experience in cross-border insolvency proceedings. Mr. Engelhardt was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Hamilton College.