Kellie W. Fisher

KELLIE is a shareholder with Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine, in its Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights department. She focuses her practice on bankruptcy matters, commercial litigation, and transactions involving distressed companies. She routinely represents financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors (including official and ad hoc committees), lenders, debtors, equity-holders and trustees, and she advises clients on all aspects of the restructuring and bankruptcy process, including DIPlending and cash-collateral issues, plan negotiation and drafting, § 363 sales, adversary proceedings, contested matters, and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. She also routinely represents parties in out-of-court debt restructurings, Article 9 and real estate foreclosures, receiverships, debtor/creditor litigation, lender-liability litigation, and other general commercial litigation. She has represented secured lenders in numerous subchapter V bankruptcy cases, the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Calais Regional Hospital bankruptcy case, and the largest creditor in a contested sale trial in the IDL Development, Inc. chapter 11 bankruptcy case. She also successfully represented a Vermontbased textile firm as the debtor in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case and restructured millions of dollars in debt in the process.

Kellie has presented numerous times on subchapter V issues at ABI’s Northeast Bankruptcy Conference & Consumer Forum (for which she serves on its advisory board) and Winter Leadership Conference, and she is a board co-chair of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s New England Network and a member of the Turnaround Management Association. She also is a member of the Maine Bankruptcy Court Local Rules Committee. She is admitted to practice in Maine, Massachusetts and New York, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Maine and Massachusetts. In addition, she was listed in Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in 2023 and 2024, ranked in The Best Lawyers in America as a “One to Watch” from 2020-24, and ranked by Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Maine as an “Up and Coming” attorney in 2022 and 2023, and as a “Band 3” attorney in 2024.

Kellie hails from a working-class town in Maine and has seen firsthand how financial hardships affect individuals and communities. She represents numerous local financial institutions in Maine in both commercial and consumer bankruptcies, workouts and other litigation. Outside of her insolvency practice, she maintains an active pro bono practice and is currently representing an Afghan refugee in connection with his green card application. She also has taken on pro bono cases on referral from the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project, and she has taught financial literacy classes through the M. Ellen Carpenter Financial Literacy Program of the Boston Bar Association, as well as presented on personal finance and entrepreneurship through Junior Achievement of Maine. In addition, she serves on her firm’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.