Matthew T. Gensburg

Matthew T. Gensburg is senior counsel with Gensburg Calandriello & Kanter, P.C. in Chicago and leads the firm’s bankruptcy, commercial litigation and restructuring practice group, with an emphasis in financial services. He has more than 30 years of legal experience in bankruptcy, financial restructuring and related matters On behalf of secured and unsecured lenders, lessors, creditors’ committees and debtors in all phases of corporate reorganizations and debt structuring, he manages breach-of-contract, settlement agreements, civil lawsuits, collections, post-judgment enforcement, and the purchase and sale of assets. Mr. Gensburg is the former chair and current member of the Chicago Bar Association’s Pro Bono Bankruptcy Committee, and throughout his career he has assisted pro se debtors with various aspects of chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcy cases before the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. In addition to monitoring the committee’s cases and managing his own pro bono cases, Mr. Gensburg oversees fundraising and lawyer recruitment on behalf of the CBA committee. He was the past program chair and is a current advisory board member ABI’s Central States Bankruptcy Workshop. As a frequent lecturer to business and professional groups, Mr. Gensburg instructs loan officers and attorneys on the Bankruptcy and Uniform Commercial Codes and statutory state options. Earlier in his career, he lectured as a faculty member of the American Bankers Association’s National Commercial Lending School and Commercial Lending Graduate School, as well as to members of the National Business Institute on bankruptcy law and procedure. He is a frequent author and contributor to industry publications and formerly published a monthly “Business and the Law” column in the Kane, McHenry and Lake County Business Journals for many years. He also contributed to Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law. He has also published course materials on behalf of the National Business Institute and Lorman Educational Services. Mr. Gensburg formerly served on the Board of Editors of the Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law. He received his B.A. in 1980 from the University of Michigan and his J.D. in 1983 from Emory University School of Law.