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David R. Doyle is a Member at Cozen O’Connor in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on creditor’s rights, insolvency matters, and commercial litigation. He represents financial institutions and specialty lenders in workout scenarios, foreclosure cases, and bankruptcy cases. He also advises distressed companies and creditors in out-of-court restructurings and Chapters 7 and 11 bankruptcy cases. He represents receivers, assignees for the benefit of creditors, and bankruptcy trustees as general counsel or special litigation counsel. A significant part of his practice involves representing defendants in preference and fraudulent transfer adversary proceedings. Before private practice, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Carol A. Doyle (no relation), who was the Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Doyle received his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. cum laude at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Frederick C. Fisher is a Partner at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, where he is a Co-Leader of the Banking and Finance Practice, focusing on banking and finance. He is currently ranked in Chambers and has been recognized by Leading Lawyers and Illinois Super Lawyers. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Fisher received his B.S. from Miami University and his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Robert M. Fishman is a Member of Cozen O’Connor in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of business bankruptcy and insolvency. Mr. Fishman has been an author and lecturer on a variety of business bankruptcy topics for numerous organizations, including the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He is listed in the Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency Lawyers, the Guide to Leading U.S. Insolvency Lawyers, and the Best Lawyers in America. He has also been selected as one of Illinois’ leading business bankruptcy attorneys by Leading Lawyers and Super Lawyers. Mr. Fishman is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (former President, Chairman of the Board, and member of the Executive and Management Committees and winner of the ABI Lifetime Achievement Award) and of the American Bar Association. A Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Mr. Fishman received his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. from George Washington University Law School.
Robert W. Glantz is a Principal at Much Shelist, P.C., in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, corporate and financial law, real estate, and restructuring, insolvency, and special situations. A Certified Public Accountant, He has been an adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a frequent lecturer for the National Business Institute and IICLE®. He has attained the AV Preeminent Rating. Mr. Glantz received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Thomas E. Howard is the founder of Collateral Base in Peoria, where he concentrates his practice in business contracts. He extensively represents secured creditors in various avenues of commercial loan enforcement through all aspects of litigation, from commercial workouts through enforcement of judgments. He often publishes in the area and sits on the Illinois State Bar Association Section Council for Cannabis Law. Since 2015, he has been named both an Illinois Super Lawyer Rising Star and an Illinois Leading Lawyers Emerging Lawyer. Mr. Howard received his B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Marquette University Law School.
David A. Johnson, Jr., is a Member of Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa in Chicago, where he focuses his practice in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate finance, and commercial transactions. He has been recognized as an Emerging Lawyer (2019 and 2020) by Illinois Leading Lawyers and a Rising Star (2017 – 2020) by Illinois Super Lawyers. He is a former Cochair/Legislative Liaison for the Environmental Section of the Chicago Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and a current member of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Council (2015 – Present), for which he is a co-editor of the newsletter, The Counselor.
Richard J. Mason is a Principal at Mason Pollick & Schmahl in Chicago, concentrating his practice in business insolvency and debtor-creditor relations. He has written numerous articles for continuing legal education programs and law journals and has spoken at programs sponsored by, among others, the International Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the American Bar Association. Mr. Mason is former Chair of the American Bar Association Business Bankruptcy Committee on Use and Disposition of Property and is a longtime Fellow of the College of American Bankruptcy and the International Insolvency Institute, both invitation-only organizations. He is a member of the Illinois State and Chicago Bar Associations, the Commercial Law League of America, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law every year since 1983 and has been a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law at various times from the early 2000s. Mr. Mason received his B.A. with honors from the University of Illinois, his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Gregory E. Moredock isa Senior Associate at Sorling Northrup in Springfield, where he concentrates his practice in family law and commercial litigation. He is the Illinois State Bar Association Civil Practice and Procedure Chair (2020 – 2021). Mr. Moredock received his B.S. cum laude from the University of Dayton as a John W. Berry Sr. Scholar and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he worked as a Fellow with the Ohio Innocence Project, was Senior Articles Editor of the Human Rights Quarterly, and served as an extern for the Honorable Judge Sandra Beckwith of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Cynde H. Munzer is a Partner in the Chicago office of Blank Rome LLP, where she practices in the corporate finance area. She has been recognized as an Illinois Leading Lawyer (2014 – Present) by Leading Lawyers magazine and has been named four times, most recently in 2024, to the Notable Women in Law list published by Crain’s Chicago Business. Ms. Munzer received her B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her J.D. with high honors from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Michael W. Ott is Of Counsel at Ice Miller LLP, where he focuses his practice on bankruptcy, workouts, and restructuring. He is a founding member of Ice Miller’s Distressed Investment Group and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association. Mr. Ott received his B.A. in Mathematics from The College of William and Mary and his J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Dean’s Honors, from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he was the Senior Managing Editor of the Indiana Law Journal.
John F. Pollick is a Partner at Mason Pollick & Schmahl LLC in Chicago, concentrating in real estate, secured transactions, bankruptcy matters, and debtor and creditor rights. He has spoken at programs on commercial lending and bankruptcy and is an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a member of the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network (Banking and Financial Institutions) and the Illinois State Bar Association. Mr. Pollick received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Mark L. Radtke is a Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in corporate reorganization, creditors’ rights, and bankruptcy. He advises debtors, boards of directors, indenture trustees and bondholders, Chapter 7 and liquidation trustees, state and federal receivers, assignees for the benefit of creditors, committees, financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors, and interest holders on all aspects of in- and out-of-court restructurings including Chapters 7, 11, and 15 cases. He has litigated contested matters in state, federal, and appellate courts. He is the Chair (2023 – 2024) and former Vice Chair (2021 – 2022) of the Chicago Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee. He has been recognized by Chambers & Partners USA as an Up-and-Coming Lawyer (2021) and in Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2022 – 2023) and by Law Bulletin as an Illinois Emerging Lawter (2015 – 2016) and an Illinois Leading Lawyer (2018, 2021 – 2023). Mr. Radtke received his B.B.A. from the University of Iowa and his J.D. with high honors from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and was the Executive Articles Editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
Michael M. Schmahl is a Partner at Mason Pollick & Schmahl LLC in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on bankruptcy and commercial litigation. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Schmahl received his A.B. cum laude with Departmental Honors in Government and Legal Studies and his J.D. from University of Wisconsin Law School.
Sean T. Scott is a Partner at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, where he is Leader of the Restructuring Practice. He has extensive experience in insolvency matters, in which he regularly represents administrative agents, lenders, and lender syndicates in Chapter 11 proceedings and out-of-court restructurings and recapitalizations involving billions of dollars of assets and liabilities. Mr. Scott received his B.A. with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Washington University and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.
Brian L. Shaw is a Member of Cozen O’Connor in Chicago, where he practices in bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and attendant litigation. He has authored and coauthored numerous articles in publications such as the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Law360, the Norton Bankruptcy Law Letter, and The Bankruptcy Strategist and previously served as a Contributing Editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. He has served as the President and Chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute as well as the Co-Chair of both the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Chicago Conference and its Inaugural Professional Development Program. He is also a Past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Section and a Fellow and the Seventh Circuit Regent of the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Shaw received his B.A. cum laude from Tufts University and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law.
David Silvers is an associate at Karbal, Cohen, Economou, Silk & Dunne, LLC, in Chicago, where he focuses his practice on insurance coverage and insurance regulatory issues. He has a broad experience in commercial litigation and other commercial matters. Mr. Silvers received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012 and subsequently spent several years in the public policy world including as a staffer in the United States House of Representatives.
Robert N. Sodikoff is a Member of the Chicago firm Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa, focusing his practice on real estate and commercial law matters. He has taught courses on the Uniform Commercial Code and the introduction to law. He has been recognized as an Illinois Leading Lawyer in Banking and Financial Institutions Law (2004 – Present) and is AV Peer Reviewed. He is a member of the American Bar Association and Chicago Bar Associations. Mr. Sodikoff received his B.A. with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. cum laude from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Howard J. Swibel is a Senior Partner at Saul Ewing LLP in Chicago, where he has developed substantial expertise in both the corporate transactional and litigation areas over a legal career spanning nearly 50 years. He has spoken on a broad range of topics related to the corporate and litigation areas, including for the American and Chicago Bar Associations. He has served for many years as an Illinois Commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and as a Trustee of the Uniform Law Foundation. In 2007, he completed his service as president of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He serves as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, hearing complex claims. He also serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Mr. Swibel received both his A.B. and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard University.
Stephen A. Tagge is a Senior Attorney at Sorling Northrup Attorneys in Springfield, where he concentrates his practice in transactions, banking, bankruptcy (creditor), and commercial and farm real estate. He has participated as a lecturer and author in continuing legal education courses in banking, secured transactions, mortgage foreclosure, creditors’ rights, and environmental duties of buyers and sellers of real estate for numerous organizations. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Illinois State Bar Association. Mr. Tagge received his B.A. from Knox College and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Jason M. Torf is a Partner at Tucker Ellis LLP in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. He has authored materials and been a speaker for numerous organizations, including IICLE® and the American Bar Association. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Torf received both his B.S. and his J.D. from the University of Illinois.
Michael L. Weissman is retired from Levin Ginsburg in Chicago, where he focused his practice on commercial law and banking, including the structuring of a wide variety of financing transactions. He has frequently published articles in journals devoted to banking and commercial finance, has lectured for numerous diverse groups, and has been a panelist for countless seminars. He served on the Board of Directors of IICLE® from 1990 to 2003 and was awarded the Addis Hull Award in 2018. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the School of Business Administration, Turiba, in Riga, Latvia, in 2006; a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the National University in Vientiane, Laos, in 2008; an instructor in the American Bar Association’s International Senior Lawyers Project in Capetown, South Africa, in 2009; and taught for the African Centre for Legal Excellence in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and in Kampala, Uganda. Mr. Weissman received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sydney (Australia) Faculty of Law, received his M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania, and received his B.S. in Economics from Northwestern University.
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