Mr. Jeremy R. Fischer

Jeremy R. Fischer is Drummond Woodsum?s Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group Leader in the firm?s Portland, Maine, and Manchester, N.H. offices. He specializes in litigation and transactions involving distressed commercial matters, where he helps clients from the first sign of trouble through the most complex financial restructuring or chapter 11 case. Mr. Fischer advises major constituencies in high-stakes chapter 11 cases, including financial institutions, bondholders, official and ad hoc creditors? committees, asset-purchasers, trustees, DIP lenders, directors/officers and debtors. He also represents parties in out-of-court debt restructurings, receiverships, and asset and loan sale transactions, with particular expertise in the health care and long-term-care sectors. Mr. Fischer has been recognized as one of the top practitioners in the region by Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America. He regularly represents indigent individuals in bankruptcy cases on a pro bono basis, and he has taught at the University of Maine School of Law. He also serves on ABI?s Board of Directors and previously chaired ABI?s Northeast Bankruptcy Conference & Consumer Forum, as well as ABI?s Bankruptcy Litigation Committee. Mr. Fischer is a member of ABI?s inaugural 2017 class of ?40 Under 40,? and in 2018 he co-authored and co-edited the second edition of ABI?s Quick Evidence Handbook. Before entering the practice of law, he served three terms in the Maine Legislature, where he was House Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Mr. Fischer received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law.