Mr. Scott D. Cousins
Scott D. Cousins is a director with Bayard, P.A. in Wilmington, Del., and has more than 25 years of experience in the restructuring field. He has participated in many of the largest and most com- plicated business reorganizations, liquidations and distressed sales and acquisitions in Delaware's state and federal courts. He is also experienced in out-of-court restructurings and workouts and has appeared in many bankruptcy jurisdictions across the country. Mr. Cousins has experience in com- mercial transactions as a result of his role as in-house counsel for two large energy-related compa- nies. From 2005 to early 2009, he served as general counsel of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a clean energy company and one of the largest competitive energy suppliers in North America. At NextEra, he oversaw all legal aspects of the company's activities. Before entering private practice in 1996, Mr. Cousins worked in the corporate legal department for The Columbia Gas System, Inc., where he focused primarily on the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Columbia and its subsidiary, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, until they successfully emerged from bankruptcy pro- tection in 1995. He is AV-Peer Review-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is a published author and frequent speaker on issues and developments in bankruptcy and insolvency law. Mr. Cousins has been recognized by Chambers USA from 2004-06 and 2010-17 as a leader in bankruptcy and re- structuring, and since 2006 has been named in The Best Lawyers in America as one of the foremost practitioners in his field. He has also been included in The International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers since 2011. Mr. Cousins has been recognized by Super Lawyers magazine as a Delaware Super Lawyer in business bankruptcy each year since 2013, and he authored a chap- ter on assets dispositions and acquisitions in conjunction with prepackaged plans of reorganization in Bankruptcy Business Acquisitions (ABI 1998). He received his B.S. in 1989 from Stockton State College, his M.B.A. from Widener University School of Management in 1992 and his J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School in 1992.
Scott D. Cousins