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Christopher J. Leavell

Associate
  • Bankruptcy & Restructuring |
  • Philadelphia, PA |
  • Marlton, NJ |
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Biography

Education

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Awards & Honors

News & Events

Experience

Biography

Christopher focuses his practice on creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, workouts, and commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosure litigation, international commercial arbitration, and asset recovery. He routinely represents institutional lenders, bankruptcy trustees, floor plan lenders, pharmaceutical distributors, creditors’ committees, property managers, and other business entities.

He strives to advocate persistently and effectively on behalf of his clients and to advise his clients on how to achieve their desired outcomes in a sound, creative, and cost-effective way. Having previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Bruce I. Fox, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Chris often considers a case from the perspective of a judge and then formulates the best strategy for aggressively advancing his client’s interests.

Education

Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., cum laude

  • Associate Managing Editor, Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion

Columbia College, Columbia University, A.B.

Clerkships

Honorable Bruce I. Fox, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Admissions

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

 

Memberships

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association

Member, Philadelphia Bar Association

Member, Camden County Bar Association

Member, American Bankruptcy Institute

Awards & Honors

Named to the “Pennsylvania Rising Stars” list by Thomson Reuters for creditor/debtor rights (2021-2022)*

Named to “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch” list for Litigation – Bankruptcy by Best Lawyers® (2021-2023)*

*No aspect of these advertisements have been approved by the highest court of any state. See Awards Methodology

 

News & Events

Author, “Under Financial Pressure, Colleges Face a Complex Balancing Act in the Weeks Ahead,” August 14, 2020

Author, “NJ Now Prohibits the Use of Confessed Judgments in Financing Agreements Targeted at Garden State Businesses,” June 20, 2020

Author, “Using PPP Proceeds as Collateral for Other Loans—Implications for Borrowers and Secured Lenders,” April 17, 2020

Experience

  • The bankruptcy trustee in liquidation of Atlantic City casino.
  • International real estate holding company in lease workouts throughout Pennsylvania.
  • Multiple bank clients as creditors in business and consumer bankruptcies and in loan workouts.
  • Insurer in a bankruptcy proceeding involving a $30 million fraud recovery.
  • National self-storage company as a creditor in bankruptcies throughout the United States.
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