Robert Stark is chair of Brown Rudnick's Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. Robert focuses his practice on complex corporate restructuring, including in-court Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. He has extensive experience representing debtors/borrowers, secured and unsecured creditors, official creditor/equity committees, and other significant parties-in-interest in large corporate insolvency matters.
A small sample of his case matters include: SunEdison (special litigation counsel to the debtor); Atlantis Resort and Casinos (secured lenders); Millennium Labs (secured lenders); Pier 1 Imports (secured lenders); Forest Oil/Sabine Oil & Gas (unsecured bondholders); McDermott International (unsecured bondholders); BlockFi (Official Creditors Committee); Chesapeake Energy (Official Creditors Committee); Revlon (Official Creditors Committee); and Washington Prime Group (Official Equity Committee).
Robert’s “first chair” trial and appellate work have resulted in opinions of high precedential value, including: In re Visteon Corp., 612 F.3d 210 (3rd Cir. 2010) (described by one legal scholar as “the most important [Section] 1114 case ever rendered"); In re Oakwood Homes Corp., 449 F.3d 588 (3rd Cir. 2006); In re TSAWD Holdings, Inc., 565 B.R. 292 (Bankr. D. Del. 2017); In re Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, 2016 WL 7048599 (Bankr. D. Del. 2016); In re Green Field Energy Services, Inc., 2015 WL 5146161 (Bankr. D. Del. 2015); In re School Specialty, Inc., 2013 WL 1838513 (Bankr. D. Del. 2013); In re Patriot Coal Corp., 482 B.R. 718 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2012); In re Eastman Kodak Co., 2012 WL 2501071 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2012); In re Tribune Company, 2011 Bankr. Lexis 4128 (Bankr. D. Del. 2011); In re Washington Mutual, Inc., 442 B.R. 314 (Bankr. D. Del. 2011); In re Spansion, Inc., 421 B.R. 151 (Bankr. D. Del. 2009); In re Oakwood Homes Corp., 394 B.R. 352 (Bankr. D. Del. 2008); In re Oneida Ltd., 351 B.R. 79 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2006); and OHC Liquidation Trust v. U.S. Fire Ins. Co., 2006 WL 2578907 (Bankr. D. Del. 2006).
Robert’s practice has been the subject of various media stories, including a 2021 profile published by LevFin Insights, wherein he was described as having a “hard-nosed, no-nonsense reputation, tempered with a penchant for deal making,” which has “made him a go-to lifeline in complex Chapter 11 cases for a wide range of parties.” In 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2011, Robert was one of 12 attorneys nationwide named to the annual list of “Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers” published by The Beard Group’s Turnarounds & Workouts. Robert has also published extensively on insolvency and restructuring matters, including several books and widely cited law review articles. He is frequently invited to speak at large-scale restructuring symposiums and guest lecture student classes at leading law and business schools throughout the country.
Updated Sep 2024
