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Erin M. Casey

Principal

phone 312.863.7164
fax 312.863.7864
email erin.casey@goldbergkohn.com

 

Erin Casey is a principal in the firm's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Group. She represents lenders in all aspects of corporate bankruptcy cases and commercial workouts throughout the country. Her experience includes negotiation and litigation of debtor-in-possession financing orders, cash collateral orders and sale orders in bankruptcy cases, as well as documentation of asset-based and cash-flow commercial finance transactions. Ms. Casey has also represented a broad range of clients in acquisitions and sales of stock and assets, collateral turnover arrangements, and leveraged lease transactions.

Ms. Casey is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association and was elected to participate in the 2009 Troubled Loan Workouts Project through the National Turnaround Management Association's Education Oversight Committee.  She is also a frequent speaker on bankruptcy and commercial finance issues.  She has lectured at the University of Chicago Law School on the structure and documentation of commercial finance transactions and workout scenarios and was a featured speaker for the Chicago Bar Association panel, "The Rights of Creditors: Issues in the Trading of Claims," which addressed issues concerning the buying and selling of claims in chapter 11 cases.  Ms. Casey was a panelist for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education's program "Workouts & Turnarounds: Non-Bankruptcy or Pre-Bankruptcy Solutions for the Distressed Business."  She has also given presentations on debtor-in-possession financing, bankruptcy case studies and workout strategies.

Ms. Casey is admitted to practice in Illinois and New York, and in the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, Central District of Illinois, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and various other District Courts.

She received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2002 and her B.A., with honors, in economics, from the University of Chicago in 1999.

Professional Activities

  • Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Member, Turnaround Management Association

Education

  • University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2002
  • University of Chicago, B.A., with honors, in economics, 1999

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • New York
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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