Kellie W. Fisher

Kellie W. Fisher is an attorney at Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine, who focuses on bankruptcy, commercial litigation, and transactions involving distressed companies. She represents financial institutions, official and ad hoc creditors’ committees, lenders, debtors, asset purchasers, equity holders, and trustees. Her practice covers restructuring, bankruptcy litigation, debtor-creditor disputes, distressed transactions, and related commercial matters in New England and other jurisdictions.

Kellie earned a J.D. from Boston College School of Law and a B.A. from Colby College. Her education supports a practice that combines insolvency law, litigation strategy, transaction structuring, and financial decision making. She applies that foundation when advising parties on bankruptcy plans, asset sales, lending issues, disputed transfers, debt restructurings, foreclosure remedies, and other matters where legal rights and financial outcomes are closely connected.

Kellie advises on DIP lending, cash collateral, plan negotiation and drafting, asset sales, fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation, out-of-court restructurings, Article 9 and real estate foreclosures, receiverships, debtor-creditor litigation, lender liability, and commercial disputes. Her recent matters include secured lenders in Subchapter V cases, an unsecured creditors’ committee in the Calais Regional Hospital bankruptcy, and a creditor in a contested Chapter 11 sale trial. She also represented a Vermont textile debtor in Chapter 11 restructuring.

Kellie W. Fisher was named to the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 2024 40 Under 40, is ranked by Chambers & Partners in Maine for Bankruptcy/Restructuring, and has been recognized by Best Lawyers Ones to Watch and Super Lawyers. She regularly speaks on bankruptcy and distressed-debt issues and serves in leadership roles within the insolvency community. Her practice combines litigation, restructuring, transactions, and creditor-debtor strategy in financially complex matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Drummond Woodsum
• Member, Maine State Bar Association
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Chair, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maine Local Rules Committee
• Chair, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, New England Network
• Advisory Board Member, Northeast Conference
• Trustee, Scarborough Library Board of Trustees
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member, Turnaround Management Association

Licensed State

• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New York

Education

• Boston College School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Colby College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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