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Wendy J. Gibson

Wendy J. Gibson focuses her practice in the bankruptcy and commercial law area.

Ms. Gibson has represented significant secured and unsecured creditors and asset purchasers in major bankruptcy cases across the country including steel companies, law firms, retailers, healthcare distributors and publishers. She has dealt with a wide range of bankruptcy sale transactions, preference, fraudulent conveyance, and other avoidance actions, automatic stay litigation, landlord tenant disputes, bankruptcy tax matters, claim disputes, cash collateral motions, plan disputes, lease and executory contract litigation, and turnover, reclamation, and stoppage in transit claims, among others. Ms. Gibson has also represented business debtors in a number of bankruptcies.

Her experience includes representing a trustee in the recovery from third parties of the main operating assets of a publicly traded company; representing an officer in D&O insurance, claim, and recovery action issues in a major fraud-related chapter 11 case; and representing the buyer of a business after a publicly traded seller filed for bankruptcy and a fraudulent conveyance case was filed against the buyer. She has also been involved in numerous avoidance actions.

Ms. Gibson drafted portions of, and assisted in successfully lobbying for, amendments to legislation on retiree benefits in bankruptcy. Parts of the legislation ultimately were incorporated into section 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 1114.

Ms. Gibson’s experience in the commercial law area includes counseling, negotiations, and litigation relating to mechanics’ liens, consumer laws, general contracts, letters of credit, foreclosures, sales, security interests, and general UCC matters.

Ms. Gibson serves on the Chapter 11 Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Business Bankruptcy Committee and is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. She is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and has spoken before various bar associations and other groups on the subjects of landlord-tenant relations in bankruptcy, tax issues in bankruptcy, the retiree benefit legislation, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, and other bankruptcy-related matters.