FOCUS
Christopher M. Cahill is an experienced corporate restructuring lawyer. He has represented secured lenders in middle market cases, including negotiating cash collateral and DIP financing orders, litigating lien defense, and objecting to chapter 11 plans (as well as negotiating consensual resolutions of chapter 11 plans). Further, Mr. Cahill has substantial mega-case debtor experience (e.g., the Harnischfeger, Babcock & Wilcox, and Wickes Inc. cases) at national law firms and has also represented creditors committees, purchasers of assets, landlords, and other parties in interest in chapter 11 cases. He represented a creditors committee, a post-confirmation liquidation trustee, and many creditors in the recent automotive bankruptcy cases, including a management role in the prosecution of approximately 180 preference actions in the Plastech (a Tier 1 supplier) cases.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Cahill’s article, "Commodity Supply Agreements Are Swap Agreements: A Counter-Intuitive But Quite Real Safe Harbor From Preference Avoidance,” has been published in International Corporate Rescue, and analyzes a defense for commodity suppliers against preference avoidance under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
This article first appeared in International Corporate Rescue (Volume 8, issue 4) and is reproduced with the kind permission of Chase Cambria Company (Publishing) Limited.
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EDUCATION
Mr. Cahill is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
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