Shelley Kinsella has more than 20 years of experience representing clients in bankruptcy, commercial litigation, employment law and intellectual property matters. She is a Six Sigma Green Belt, which she uses whenever applicable to provide cost efficiencies for her clients.

Shelley primarily represents debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees, equity committees, class action claimants, Chapter 11 and 7 trustees, and secured and unsecured creditors in complex reorganization and liquidation cases. She has prosecuted and defended hundreds of bankruptcy avoidance and fraudulent conveyance actions, as well as managed the claims objection process for various debtor estates. Shelley has represented public and privately held companies in out-of-court restructuring and traditional bankruptcy cases.

She also has experience in defending involuntary bankruptcies and representing buyers of distressed companies. She also has experience, both in and out of federal bankruptcy court, litigating noncompetition grants, ERISA and employee benefits matters. Additionally, she has represented whistleblowers and qui tam claimants before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Shelley also represents both plaintiffs and defendants in patent infringement cases pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

She has served as mediator for multiple litigations pending in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware as part of the court’s mediator panel, and completed the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Mediation Training Program.

A speaker and author, Shelley co-authored a chapter on alternative dispute resolution in the American Bar Association’s Reorganizing Failing Businesses, and has co-authored several articles in the American Bankruptcy Institute’s ABI Journal.