Benesch Insolvency & Creditors’ Rights Practice Grows with Hire of Bankruptcy Attorney Elliot Smith

As Benesch continues on its path of strategic recruitment, the firm is pleased to announce that Elliot Smith has joined as a partner in the firm’s Insolvency & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group.

Elliot brings a broad and versatile corporate, litigation, and finance practice built on extensive experience representing and counseling clients in corporate insolvency, distressed lending and investing, restructuring, and bankruptcy contexts, including complex chapter 11 cases throughout the country. He also has extensive experience representing and counseling his creditor clients in connection with exercising rights and remedies under the Uniform Commercial Code, formulating strategies for responding to customer and supplier distress, and in connection with minimizing insolvency related risk.

“We are excited to bring on someone with Elliot’s background. His 15 years’ experience across a variety of industries will be advantageous for our clients,” said Michael Barrie, Chair of the firm’s Insolvency & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group and Vice Chair of the Litigation Practice Group.”

Elliot represents debtors, creditors’ committees, secured lenders, indenture trustees, unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, executive management teams, landlords, and preference defendants, among other parties of interest in numerous industries, including steel, mining, automotive, senior living, restaurant, retail, e- commerce, manufacturing, and oil and gas.

He received his J.D. from the University of Maryland in 2004 and is admitted to practice in New York, Ohio, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.