“As a litigator, Kara has established precedent, overturned bad precedent, and created new law — one could not ask more from a young attorney establishing themselves.”
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Kara E. Casteel</strong> is a partner at ASK LLP in St. Paul, Minn., and heads its Bankruptcy Litigation group. She practices in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and litigation, and has successfully litigated preference and fraudulent-transfer matters in multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Delaware, Southern District of New York, Southern District of Texas and the Southern District of Indiana. In 2022, Ms. Casteel obtained a judgment in excess of $3.5 million in a preference trial. Her representative matters include the prosecution of avoidance actions in such large bankruptcies as Dean Foods Co., Sears Holdings Corp., Quebecor World (USA), WP Steel Venture LLC, NewPage Corp., RS Legacy Corp. (f.k.a RadioShack) and hhgregg, Inc. Prior to joining ASK LLP, Ms. Casteel clerked for Hon. Casey Christian and Hon. Joseph Bueltel in the Third Judicial District of Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), ABI and the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). In 2013, she helped found the IWIRC’s Minnesota chapter, and she is a past co-chair of the IWIRC-Minnesota Network. Ms. Casteel received her B.A. in 2005 in political science and legal studies from the University of Wisconsin, and her J.D. in 2008 from the University of Minnesota Law School.</p>
Education
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Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin
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Juris Doctor, University of Minnesota Law School