Gary M. Freedman, Esq.

Gary M. Freedman is a partner at Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel in its Miami office and is on its financial institution, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights team. For more than 32 years, his practice has focused on bankruptcy and restructuring, receiverships, complex business litigation, creditors’ rights, financial services, commercial foreclosure, director, office, manager and member-liability litigation,<br>and fraud litigation. For 18 years, Mr. Freedman has been board-certified in creditors’ rights law by the<br>American Board of Certification. Mr. Freedman has represented debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees and trustees and served as the liquidating trustee in the world’s fifth-largest cruise line’s chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the Southern District of Florida. He also has experience representing lenders and business entrepreneurs in complex commercial litigation, business disputes and related transactions. Mr. Freedman has been lead counsel in numerous director, officer and third-party breach-of-fiduciary-duty matters. In addition, he directed the investigation and recovery efforts in the Nevin Shapiro/Capitol Investments Ponzi scheme bankruptcy cases pending in South Florida, and he has experience in pursuing and defending financial institutions on RICO and money-laundering claims. Mr. Freedman is currently<br>lead litigation counsel to the liquidating trustee of a rural hospital located in the Florida Panhandle, where he is investigating and pursuing claims related to a $300 million fraudulent reference laboratory scheme and is serving as lead counsel to the receiver appointed in a multi-million dollar SEC receivership pending in the Southern District of Florida. He received his J.D. in 1987 from Emory University<br>School of Law.