Mark Melickian, of Counsel

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• Practice Areas: BANKRUPTCY REORGANIZATION AND CREDITORS’ RIGHTS
  
  
• MARK MELICKIAN comes to Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP with 16 years of large firm and in-house experience, most recently at Navistar Financial Corporation, where he handled a wide variety of complex corporate, transactional, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation matters for the financial affiliate of commercial vehicle manufacturer Navistar, Inc.

  Mark's in-house experience augments his considerable depth in sophisticated commercial bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He has represented financial institutions, indenture trustees, trade creditors, asset purchasers, investors, commercial real estate concerns, corporate officers, and other parties in interest in dozens of chapter 11 cases throughout the country, and advised creditors committees, chapter 11 trustees, and liquidating trustees in cases filed in New York, California, Delaware, and Illinois that resulted in over $300 million in distributions to creditors. Mark is well versed in the management and disposition of commercial vehicles and equipment and commercial real estate properties and other assets in distressed debt and bankruptcy situations.

  Mark has written extensively on bankruptcy and insolvency law and other topics, having contributed materials on these subjects to Wiley Bankruptcy Law Update, Ginsberg & Martin on Bankruptcy, Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, the Cornell University Legal Ethics Library and numerous professional seminars. For several years, he wrote a monthly legal affairs column for Student Lawyer, an America Bar Association publication, for which he received the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
  
  When Mark is not focused on bankruptcy and insolvency matters, he commits time to public interest law and not-for-profit entities. He led the Midwestern pro bono practice for an AmLaw 100 law firm while serving as co-chair of the firm's Public Interest Committee, and currently serves on the board of directors of Chicago's Public Interest Law Initiative and of San Francisco's Legal Community Against Violence, a national public policy organization dedicated to the reduction of gun-related violence in our communities.
  
  Mark earned his J.D. at Northwestern University School of Law. He has a B.A. in English Literature from Colorado State University, and studied in graduate writing programs at Colorado State University and the University of North Carolina.

• Bar Admissions:
  
  Illinois
  Northern District of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
  
  
• Memberships:
  
  American Bar Association
  Turnaround Management Association
  American Bankruptcy Institute
  Illinois State Bar Association
  Chicago Bar Association