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AREAS OF EMPHASIS
Commercial Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Related Litigation
Brian L. Shaw has performed services for Chapter 11 debtors; Chapter 7 and 11 trustees; creditors’ and noteholders’ committees; assignees; landlords; labor organizations; preference, fraudulent conveyance and Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) defendants; receivers; and secured and unsecured creditors. Mr. Shaw has extensive litigation experience in bankruptcy and related matters and has participated in the liquidation and reorganization of many bankruptcy estates, encompassing both real and personal property.
Among his more significant recent engagements, Mr. Shaw has represented M3CVP LLC and its affiliated entities in their purchase of The Clubhouse Restaurants out of bankruptcy, as well as in their acquisition of the metropolitan Chicago Nick’s Fishmarket Restaurants. Mr. Shaw has also represented Chicago Title Insurance Company in the United Homes bankruptcy cases; a former CFO and CEO of marchFirst in its pending bankruptcy case and LFG, LLC, and later the liquidating trustee of the LFG Liquidation Trust, in the successful Chapter 11 liquidation of the one time Chicago brokerage house.
Mr. Shaw is also currently serving as the Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section and as a Director of the American Bankruptcy Institute. In July 2004, Mr. Shaw also co-chaired the American Bankruptcy Institute’s inaugural Consumer Bankruptcy Conference and he previously served a three year term on the University of Illinois College of Law Recent Alumni Advisory Board from 1998-2000.
Mr. Shaw is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois, the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, Central District of Illinois, Eastern District of Wisconsin and Northern District of Indiana, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Shaw is also admitted to the Federal Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois.
EDUCATION
Tufts University (B.A., cum laude, 1989)
University of Illinois College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1993)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association
American Bar Association
American Bankruptcy Institute
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
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BAR ADMISSIONS
Admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois and US District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1997, Federal Trial Bar; 1998, US District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin; 2001, US District Court, Northern District of Indiana; 2003, US Court of Appeals, Seventh and Eighth Circuits; 2005, United States Supreme Court; 2006, US District Court, Central District of Illinois. | 