Brian Campbell

Brian Campbell is a Partner at Elsberg Baker & Maruri.

Brian Campbell is an experienced trial lawyer whose practice encompasses a wide variety of complex commercial matters. Brian has a depth of experience in litigating cases involving structured finance, monoline insurance, corporate governance, shareholder rights, restructuring and creditor rights, mergers and acquisitions, tax, GAAP accounting, environmental law, construction and engineering, and patent law. Brian has represented corporate clients in various industries, including energy and natural resources, power, petrochemicals, finance, insurance, aerospace, and private equity. Brian is a resourceful litigator who puts his breadth of experience to work in achieving the best outcome for his clients.

Brian has appeared numerous times in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the District of Delaware Bankruptcy Court, and New York Commercial Division, in addition to state and federal courts around the country. Brian has tried cases in the Delaware Chancery Court, the New York Commercial Division, and before a panel of AAA arbitrators.

Brian has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch for Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024, and The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Patent Law, 2021-2024.

Before entering the law, Brian earned his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and worked as an electronics design engineer.

Updated Feb 2026

• Represented David Dunn, as Trustee for Zohar Litigation TrustA, prosecuting more than $1 billion in claims in the District of Delaware Bankruptcy Court against financier Lynn Tilton and Patriarch Partners. Zohar Litigation Trust-A asserted more than 40 counts against Tilton and Patriarch concerning alleged misconduct in relation to the Zohar Funds, a series of Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) funds that raised $2.5 billion in capital before defaulting and entering bankruptcy in 2018. Brian and his team succeeded in securing a dismissal of more than $500 million in counterclaims asserted by Patriarch.
  
  
• Represented MBIA Inc. and MBIA Insurance Corp. in jury trial in the New York Commercial Division defending against $300 million fraud claim brought by Lynn Tilton. Claims related to alleged promises concerning restructuring of one of the Zohar Funds before its default at maturity. Case was settled on confidential terms after evidence closed at trial.
  
  
• Represented G-I Holdings, Inc., and several Heyman family trusts in defending a series of lawsuits brought by Ashland Inc. over allocation of environmental cleanup responsibilities following M&A transaction through which Ashland acquired International Specialty Products Inc.
  
  
• Represented Lion Copolymer Holdings LLC in defending a suit brought by minority shareholders in Delaware Chancery Court concerning a disputed multi-million dollar capital call.
  
  
• Represented board members Joel Peterson and Rowland Moriarty in expedited corporate governance dispute brought in Delaware Chancery Court under the Delaware LLC Act concerning Packsize International, LLC.

• Appellate
• Arbitration
• Class action
• Commercial
• Commercial and transactions
• Dispute resolution
• Labor and employment
• Plaintiff

• J.D., Columbia Law School (2014)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky (2008)

• State Bar of New York (2015)
• United States District Court: Southern District of New York (2017)