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Kelley Cornish

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Work Department

Bankruptcy & Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

Kelley Cornish is a leading bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer. Over the course of her career, Kelley has represented all participants in bankruptcy cases and corporate restructurings: debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official and unofficial committees, and acquirers of distressed assets. Her notable representations include Sears, Diamond Sports Group, Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Ryze Renewables, Westmoreland Mining, Bumble Bee Foods, Alorica, Jack Cooper Ventures, Triangle Petroleum, The Bon-Ton Stores, Performance Sports Group, AbitibiBowater (now known as Resolute Forest Products), and the acquirors of Brooks Brothers and Lucky Apparel.

As a former litigator, Kelley combines her extensive bankruptcy and litigation experience to guide clients through complex, high-stakes restructuring and insolvency disputes, bankruptcy-related investigations, and litigation involving breaches of fiduciary duty, fraudulent transfers, preferences, and equitable subordination. She advises on investigations of potential prefiling claims and serves as conflicts litigation counsel, as well as counsel to litigation trusts, court-appointed examiners and trustees, and independent directors. She also has extensive experience in matters where litigation intersects with mergers & acquisitions and liability management transactions, and in advising and representing clients in restructuring-related mediations.

Languages

English

Memberships

Regent for the Second Circuit of the American College of Bankruptcy’s Board of Regents

Chair of the board of Her Justice

Board member of Lambda Legal

Member of the Executive Committee of the Law Board of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Trinity School in New York City

Inducted into the Turnaround Management Association’s Hall of Fame

Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute

Education

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law(J.D.)
magna cum laude, order of the coif

Pennsylvania State University(B.A.)
summa cum laude