PHILADELPHIA, July 10, 2025 — Cozen O'Connor is pleased to announce that Mark Felger, Brian Shaw, and Trevor Hoffmann have been named to Lawdragon's 2025 list of the 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers.
The annual Bankruptcy & Restructuring guide honors attorneys who excel at navigating financially distressed situations, both in and out of court. Honorees are selected through journalistic research, firm and client submissions, and peer review. Felger, Shaw, and Hoffmann have each been recognized for their leadership in financial restructurings and their ability to guide clients through complex distressed transactions, including securing financing or buyers for troubled businesses.
Felger, co-chair of the firm's Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring practice, works out of Cozen O'Connor's Wilmington, Del., office, which he founded and served as office managing partner for over 20 years. He focuses his practice on areas of Chapter 11 reorganization and general insolvency law. He has represented all constituencies in corporate restructurings and insolvencies both in and out of Chapter 11, including debtors, creditors' committees, and acquirers in section 363 sale proceedings. He also has a substantial practice representing Chapter 7 trustees in complex Chapter 7 proceedings.
Felger is a certified mediator for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and maintains an active mediation practice. He has successfully mediated more than 200 matters, including WARN litigation, breach of fiduciary duty actions, avoidance litigation, and claim disputes. A fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Felger is also certified by the American Board of Certification in business bankruptcy.
Shaw, also a member of the firm's Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring practice, works out of Cozen O'Connor's Chicago office. He focuses his practice on financial restructuring, bankruptcy, and other in- and out-of-court distressed solutions, along with attendant litigation, representing debtors, creditors, and other parties-in-interest in proceedings throughout the country. He has guided Chapter 11 debtors, Chapter 7 and 11 trustees, creditors' and noteholders' committees, assignees, landlords, liquidating trustees, labor organizations, preference and fraudulent conveyance defendants, receivers, and secured and unsecured creditors through all aspects of bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring.
Shaw currently serves on the American College of Bankruptcy Board of Regents. He previously served as president of the American Bankruptcy Institute and has chaired the Chicago Bar Association's Bankruptcy and Reorganization Section.
Hoffmann, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring practice in New York, focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring, and M&A transactions. He represents companies, acquirers, equity holders, family offices, lenders, and investors in navigating strategic restructurings, Section 363 sales, workouts, distressed investments, avoidance litigation, and other insolvency-related litigation across the U.S. and globally.
He has nearly 25 years of experience advising clients in transactional and courtroom settings and has guided numerous high-profile cross-border cases. Hoffmann practiced for more than a decade in prominent restructuring groups in Canada and New York City, where he handled matters across industries including technology, real estate, financial institutions, shipping, energy, and transportation.
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