Brown Rudnick LLP

Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring

Partner

Robert Stark is chair of Brown Rudnick's Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. Robert focuses his practice on complex corporate restructuring, including in-court Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. He has extensive experience representing debtors/borrowers, secured and unsecured creditors, official creditor/equity committees, and other significant parties-in-interest in large corporate insolvency matters.

Robert frequently speaks on complex restructuring topics. He is regularly invited to guest lecture student classes at institutions of higher learning, such as Boston College Carroll School of Management, Boston University Law School, Cardozo School of Law, Columbia Business School, George Mason University (Antonin Scalia) Law School, Georgia State University Law School, Harvard Law School, NYU Stern School of Business, UC Berkeley Law School, University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce, and Vanderbilt Law School. He is also regularly invited to speak at large-scale restructuring symposiums, such as programs sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute, American Law Institute, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, Beard Group, California State Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association, Harvard Law School, New York City Bar Association, UC Hastings Law School, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School and Penn Law School), University of Texas School of Law, and University of Zurich Law School.

In 2024, Robert was added to the faculty of The Altman-Paulson Workshop on Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy, an intensive 3-day program offered by NYU Stern School of Business. In 2023, Robert was appointed to Vanderbilt Law School's Board of Advisors.