Kellie Fisher is a shareholder and the chair of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors’ Rights group at Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine. Kellie focuses her practice on bankruptcy matters, commercial litigation, and transactions involving distressed companies. She routinely represents financial institutions, official and ad hoc creditors’ committees, lenders, debtors, asset purchasers, equity holders, and trustees.

Kellie has substantial bankruptcy and litigation experience in New England and around the country. With a sophisticated understanding of the restructuring legal landscape, she advises clients on all aspects of the restructuring and bankruptcy process, including DIP lending and cash collateral issues, plan negotiation and drafting, asset sales, and fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation. Kellie 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.

Outside of her representation of her clients, Kellie is an active member of the legal community. She regularly speaks about bankruptcy law and distressed debt issues at conferences for the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Maine Bar Association, and more. She is also the chair of the board of the New England chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and the Maine Bankruptcy Court Local Rules Committee. In 2024, Kellie was selected for ABI’s 40 Under 40 award, which recognizes the top 40 insolvency industry professionals under the age of 40.

Prior to joining Drummond Woodsum, Kellie was an associate at an international law firm in Boston, MA. Kellie graduated from Boston College Law School in 2015 and received her undergraduate degree from Colby College.