Kellie W. Fisher

Kellie W. Fisher is an attorney with Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine, and a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights practice. She focuses her practice on bankruptcy matters, commercial litigation and transactions involving distressed companies. Ms. Fisher routinely represents financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors (including official and ad hoc committees), lenders, debtors, equityholders, chapter 7 trustees, and liquidating and litigation trustees. She has substantial bankruptcy and litigation experience in New England and around the country and advises clients on all aspects of the restructuring and bankruptcy process, including DIP lending and cash-collateral issues, plan negotiation and drafting, § 363 sales, adversary proceedings, contested matters, and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. She also routinely represents parties in out-of-court debt restructurings, Article 9 and real estate foreclosures, receiverships, and other debtor/creditor litigation. Recent examples of Ms. Fisher’s representations include the senior secured lenders in numerous subchapter V cases, the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Calais Regional Hospital bankruptcy case, and the largest creditor in a contested sale trial in the IDL Development, Inc. chapter 11 bankruptcy case. She also successfully represented a Vermont-based textile firm as the debtor in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case and restructured millions of dollars in debt in the process. Ms. Fisher is recognized as “One to Watch” in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law in The Best Lawyers in America, and she co-chairs the board of the New England chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She is also an active member of ABI, and she has spoken at the ABI Northeast Bankruptcy Conference and as well as published articles for ABI. Prior to joining Drummond Woodsum, Ms. Fisher was a restructuring attorney at an international law firm in Boston. She received her B.A. in 2012 from Colby College and her J.D. in 2015 from Boston College School of Law.