Robert L. LeHane

Robert L. LeHane is a partner with Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in New York and has 20 years of experience representing secured and unsecured creditors, landlords, asset-purchasers, vendors, intellectual property licensors, creditors’ committees, lenders and trustees in all aspects of restructuring, bankruptcy and corporate reorganization. He also chairs the firm’s Client Service and Innovation Committee, which considers innovative solutions to address client demands and challenges. Mr. LeHane’s experience includes asset sales, avoidance actions, liquidations, and appeals in the retail, restaurant, real estate, telecom and energy industries. He also represents clients with private wealth, corporate formation, trust, estate and succession-planning issues. Mr. LeHane is ranked as a leading bankruptcy lawyer in Chambers USA. His team takes a lead role protecting landlord rights, working with clients to ensure debtor compliance with leases and the Bankruptcy Code in connection with debtor-in-possession financing, lease auctions and chapter 11 reorganization plans. Mr. LeHane frequently participates in the unsecured creditors’ committee process on behalf of landlord clients and has successfully defended unwanted lease assignments and claim objections, terminated leases, acquired designation rights, and spearheaded unique complex joint-venture retail acquisitions. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. Mr. LeHane received his B.A. in 1990 in social studies and history from the State University of New York at Albany, and his J.D. in 1998 from the University at Buffalo School of Law.