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Selendy Gay PLLC Offices
1290 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10104
NEW YORK
United States
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Kelley Cornish
Work Department
Bankruptcy & Insolvency
Career
Kelley Cornish is a leading bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer. Over the course of her career, Kelley has represented all participants in bankruptcy cases and corporate restructurings: debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official and unofficial committees, and acquirers of distressed assets. Her notable representations include Sears, Diamond Sports Group, Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Ryze Renewables, Westmoreland Mining, Bumble Bee Foods, Alorica, Jack Cooper Ventures, Triangle Petroleum, The Bon-Ton Stores, Performance Sports Group, AbitibiBowater (now known as Resolute Forest Products), and the acquirors of Brooks Brothers and Lucky Apparel.
As a former litigator, Kelley combines her extensive bankruptcy and litigation experience to guide clients through complex, high-stakes restructuring and insolvency disputes, bankruptcy-related investigations, and litigation involving breaches of fiduciary duty, fraudulent transfers, preferences, and equitable subordination. She advises on investigations of potential prefiling claims and serves as conflicts litigation counsel, as well as counsel to litigation trusts, court-appointed examiners and trustees, and independent directors. She also has extensive experience in matters where litigation intersects with mergers & acquisitions and liability management transactions, and in advising and representing clients in restructuring-related mediations.
Languages
English
Memberships
Regent for the Second Circuit of the American College of Bankruptcy’s Board of Regents
Chair of the board of Her Justice
Board member of Lambda Legal
Member of the Executive Committee of the Law Board of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Trinity School in New York City
Inducted into the Turnaround Management Association’s Hall of Fame
Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute
Education
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law(J.D.)
magna cum laude, order of the coif
Pennsylvania State University(B.A.)
summa cum laude