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  • Bar Admissions
    Massachusetts

    U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • Memberships
    American Bankruptcy Institute

    Boston Bar Association

    Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Education
    Suffolk University Law School, Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1999

    Saint Anslem College, Bachelor of Arts, History, 1996
  • Honors
    Managing Editor, Suffolk University Law Review

    Suffolk University Law School Jurisprudence Award, Constitutional Law
  • PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING
    Co-author, Successor Liability Consideration in the Purchase of Assets from Financially Distressed Company in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, (2008)

    Author, Judicial Scrutiny of Reaffirmation Agreements, 32 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 647 (1999)

Brendan Recupero is an associate in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring and Litigation Groups.  His practice includes representation of debtors, trustees, committees and creditors in connection with distressed businesses and problem business credits.  He has counseled clients in restructurings, both inside and out of bankruptcy, in the retail, manufacturing, technology and bio-technology, and real estate sectors.  In addition, he has practiced in bankruptcy courts in Delaware, New York, Texas, Maine and New Hampshire on a wide range of issues.  Following graduation from law school, Brendan served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. William C. Hillman, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Massachusetts.

Notable Experience
  • Represented liquidating trustee under confirmed plan recovering over $30 million for benefit of creditors resulting in a dividend of over 41% to general unsecured creditors.
  • Represented women's clothing retailer with gross revenue of over $40 million and 70 locations in connection with successful post-BAPCPA leasehold sale.
  • Represented private equity portfolio companies with revenue of approximately $85 million in connection with chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
  • Appeared in Canadian insolvency proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act involving a U.S. debtor's wholly owned subsidiary.
  • Successfully recovered over $2 million on behalf of chapter 11 debtor's estate.