Richard F. Casher is a leading bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer who, as a partner in the firm’s creditors’ rights and bankruptcy department, has more than 35 years of experience in chapter 11 reorganizations, creditors’ rights and financial restructuring. He has represented major institutional creditors, bondholder groups, hedge funds, distressed investors, indenture trustees, official creditors’ committees, lender groups, debtor-in-possession lenders and debtors in high profile chapter 11 cases. From 1989 to 2002, Richard was listed annually in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy Law in Connecticut. Since 2003, Richard has been listed annually in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy, Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation: Bankruptcy in New York, and, since 2011, in Litigation-Bankruptcy Law. He has also been distinguished as one of Avenue Magazine’s “Legal Elite.” (Admitted in Connecticut Only).