Celesq® Presenters

Shari Dwoskin is a partner in the Firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. She represents unsecured creditors’ committees, tort victims, bondholders, equity interest holders, and debtors in Chapter 11 restructurings, litigation arising from related disputes, and out-of-court wind-downs. Shari has experience managing many facets of the restructuring process in some of the largest recent bankruptcy cases, including negotiating restructuring support agreements, plans, and DIPs; plan confirmation trials; valuation; avoidance actions; bankruptcy auctions; the claims resolution process; 363 sales; and related motion practice and litigation. Shari also regularly consults with the Firm’s Corporate, Intellectual Property, and Real Estate groups on bankruptcy-related matters. 

Shari maintains an active and varied pro bono practice that includes providing legal advice to women- and minority-owned small businesses, representing individual Chapter 7 debtors, and helping Boston residents seal criminal records. She recently led a team in obtaining a decision holding that the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families violated the due process rights of families by denying them fair hearings in “substantiated concern” cases. Shari is also an active member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, serving as Vice-Director of Regional Programming on the international board.