Adine S. Momoh

Adine S. Momoh is a partner with Stinson LLP in Minneapolis and is a dedicated trial attorney who defends complex business and commercial litigation matters for securities, banking, estates and trust clients, and resolves creditors’ rights and bankruptcy cases in state and federal courts nationwide. She also handles complex business and regulatory disputes and investigations for businesses ranging fromFortune 500 companies to emerging entrepreneurs, as well as individuals in diverse industries, such as financial services and wealth management, health care, natural gas, medical gas, nonprofits and foundations, telecommunications and government contracts. Ms. Momoh co-chairs the firm’s Estates and TrustsLitigation Practice Group. In her bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice, she regularly represents clients (including insurers, regional and national banks and financial institutions) in matters involving claim and administrative expense resolution and defense, fraudulent conveyance, preferential transfers<br>and other avoidance actions, breaches of fiduciary duty and Ponzi schemes. She also has represented clients in § 363 sales, cash collateral, DIP financing and plan confirmation. In her estates and trusts litigation practice, she regularly represents fiduciaries (individuals and corporate entities), beneficiaries or devisees, and other interested persons in will or trust contests and probate or trust administration. Ms.Momoh was the first Black woman and youngest attorney to serve as president of the 8,000-memberHennepin County Bar Association. In 2016, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges selected her as a Blackshear Presidential Fellow, and in 2014, she received the Minnesota State Bar Association’s first-ever Outstanding New Lawyer of the Year Award. In 2013, she was named a Fellow of the Leader-ship Council on Legal Diversity. Ms. Momoh was recognized with Stinson’s 2013 Pro Bono Service to the Indigent Award. She also provides pro bono work through the firm’s Legal Clinic, the Federal BarAssociation’s Pro Se Project, the Minnesota Appellate Public Defender and the Office of the FederalDefender for the District of Minnesota. Before joining the firm as an associate, Ms. Momoh worked atStinson as a summer associate. She also served as a federal judicial law clerk to Hon. Jeanne J. Graham(ret.) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Ms. Momoh received her B.A. summa cum laude in business administration-legal studies from the University of St. Thomas, her J.D. magna cum laude from the William Mitchell College of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation with distinction fromGeorgetown University Law Center.