Robert J. Stark, Esq.

Robert J. Stark is a partner with Brown Rudnick LLP in New York and chairs its Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. He focuses his practice on complex corporate restructuring, including in-court chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. Mr. Stark has experience representing debtors/borrowers, secured and unsecured creditors, official creditor/equity committees, and other significant parties-in-interest in large corporate insolvency matters. He has been recognized and profiled by numerous directories and publications, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, Benchmark Litigation, Law360, Turnarounds & Workouts, Global M&A Network, IFLR1000, Lawdragon, Who’s Who Legal, Super Lawyers, PLC Which Lawyer, National Law Journal and Bloomberg/Business Week. In addition to his case work and many recognitions, Mr. Stark is a contributing editor of the nation’s leading treatise on restructuring law, Collier on Bankruptcy (LexisNexis 2020), and he was the lead editor of two other legal treatises, Contested Valuation in Corporate Bankruptcy (LexisNexis 2011) and Admitting Expert Valuation Evidence Before the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts (ABI 2017). He has written or co-written articles in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Business Lawyer, California Law Review and the Journal of Corporation Law, which have been quoted/cited in trial and appellate court decisions and in the published writings of leading legal scholars. In addition, he has guest-lectured on restructuring topics at numerous seminars and graduate schools around the country. Mr. Stark is admitted to the Bars of New York and New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of Michigan, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He received his B.A. in 1992 from Lafayette College and his J.D. in 1995 from Vanderbilt University Law School.