Norman Orr is a shareholder. A significant portion of his commercial and corporate experience has been in connection with the purchase and sale of businesses, formation of businesses, financing transactions, and shareholder/partner disputes.
Mr. Orr’s experience with financing transactions includes representation of secured lenders, including commercial banks and purchasers of accounts. He has also represented numerous borrowers in both traditional commercial loan transactions and securitization transactions.
Mr. Orr participates in a wide variety of insolvency proceedings. He has been involved in various aspects of Chapter 11 proceedings, including acting as counsel for debtors, individual creditors (both secured and unsecured), creditors’ committees and as counsel for trustees. He assists clients in non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings, including composition arrangements and state law liquidation procedures such as assignments for benefit of creditors and trust chattel mortgage proceedings. He also represents debtors and/or creditors’ committees in various out-of-court restructurings, compositions and liquidations.
Mr. Orr represents borrowers in negotiating forbearance agreements and voluntary surrender agreements with their lenders and has represented lenders in the same types of transactions.
Education:
B.S., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania,1972
J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan, 1975
Bar Admissions:
State Bar of Michigan,1975
Memberships:
State Bar of Michigan
Corporation, Finance and Business Law section
and the Real Property section
Oakland County Bar Association
American Bar Association
Corporation, Banking and Business Law section
Committee on Business Bankruptcy
American Bankruptcy Institute
Business Reorganization Committee and the Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee
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