Robert J. "Bob" Keach

Bob’s practice focuses on the representation of various parties in workouts and bankruptcy cases, including debtors, creditors, creditors committees, lessors and third parties acquiring troubled companies and/or their assets. Bob has appeared before the bankruptcy courts in the Districts of New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, the Northern District of California, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, among others.

Bob regularly appears as a panelist on national bankruptcy, lender liability and creditors’ rights programs, and is the author of several articles on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights appearing in the ABI Law Review, Commercial Law Journal and ABI Journal, among other publications. Bob is admitted to practice in both state and federal courts in Maine and Massachusetts, as well as the First, Second, Seventh and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. As detailed below, Bob has served as a court-appointed fee examiner and has been designated an expert witness on fee-related matters in several cases. Bob has also served as a chapter 11 trustee and has represented court-appointed receivers in matters before state courts, including the Delaware Chancery Court.

Bob is an Adjunct Professor (Cross-Border Insolvency; Business Bankruptcy) at Boston College Law School.