Andrea Hartley

Andrea S. Hartley is the chair of Akerman LLP’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice Group, in Miami. An experienced bankruptcy and creditors’ rights litigator, she counsels clients in the financial services, real estate, hospitality, restaurant, health care and retail sectors on business reorganizations and liquidations, assumption and rejection of leases/contracts, workouts, debt restructurings, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and creditors’ rights. She also has experience with fraudulent conveyance and preferential transfer litigation. Ms. Hartley acts on behalf of corporate debtors, committees, lenders, secured and unsecured creditors, commercial landlords, suppliers, vendors, and purchasers of troubled companies and their assets, both in and out of bankruptcy court. She served as national chair of the 17,000-member Law Practice Division of the American Bar Association (ABA), and she is a past chair of the ABA Women Rainmakers and a Fellow of the ABA. She also served as only the third female president of the Dade County Bar Association in its then-95-year history. Ms. Hartley is admitted to practice in all Florida District Courts and in the U.S. Supreme Court. She received her B.S. in 1987 with honors from the University of Florida and her J.D. in 1990 from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.