Aaron L. Hammer, Partner

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• Practice Areas: BANKRUPTCY REORGANIZATION AND CREDITORS’ RIGHTS
  
  
• Aaron L. Hammer leads the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors’ Rights practice at Sugar, Felsenthal, Grais & Hammer LLP.
  
  Aaron is an accomplished financial restructuring and bankruptcy attorney in the broadest sense, having represented debtors, creditors committees, financial institutions, bondholders, hedge funds, asset purchasers and landlords in all facets of domestic and cross-border insolvency proceedings. He is a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies on their insolvency matters and widely recognized as a leading expert in corporate restructurings involving telecommunications assets and in chapter 15 proceedings.
  

  Aaron was named a “Leading Lawyer in Field” by Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in its 2011 and 2010 publications and one of twelve “Outstanding Young Restructuring Attorneys” for 2010 by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine after its nationwide selection process. He was selected as one of 2009’s “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch” from more than 20,000 eligible lawyers by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, publisher of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer. That same year, he was awarded Large Transaction of the Year by the Turnaround Management Association’s Chicago/Midwest chapter for his role as creditors committee counsel in In re Trinsic, Inc. (Bankr. S.D. Ala.). Aaron has also received the highest possible legal ability and ethical standards peer rating (“A/V”) by Martindale-Hubbell.

  Aaron is an active member of the turnaround and restructuring community, and is regularly featured panelist discussing trends in the U.S. bankruptcy market in Financier Worldwide’s Roundtable. He is a contributing author of “Cross-Border Debt Restructurings: Innovative Approaches for Creditors, Corporates and Sovereigns,” (Euromoney, 2005), a leading treatise on the subject of cross-border insolvencies and workouts. Aaron’s publication, “Understanding Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code: Everything You Need to Know About Cross-Border Insolvency Legislation in the United States” (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Spring 2008), recently was cited to the U.S. Supreme Court on an issue involving multinational insolvencies.

  Aaron served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law for many years where he taught several advanced bankruptcy classes. He has lectured extensively on those subjects around the world, including at the University of Chicago and The Canadian Institute, and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association where he currently serves as a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of its Chicago/Midwest chapter and on its International Board of Trustees. Aaron is active in the Jewish community through his service on the Board of Directors for the Anti-Defamation League’s Greater Chicago/Upper Midwest regional office.

  Aaron received his J.D, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Northwestern University School of Law. He received his B.A. with distinction from the University of Michigan, where he was named the James B. Angell Scholar and earned membership to Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society.

• Bar Admissions:
  
  Illinois
  New York
  United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  United States District Court, Southern District of New York
  United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
  United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York
  United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware
  
  
• Memberships:
  
  American Bar Association
  Illinois State Bar Association
  New York State Bar Association
  American Bankruptcy Institute
  Turnaround Management Association
  INSOL International
  National Association of Credit Managers
  
  
  
  
  
  
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