Bio

Ms. Fugée focuses her practice on all aspects of creditors’ rights law, including real estate lending transactions, bankruptcy, foreclosure, workout and commercial litigation matters. In lending matters, she serves on the Firm’s opinion team, providing mortgage enforceability opinions and bankruptcy opinions. In bankruptcy matters, she represents secured and unsecured creditors, landlords, asset buyers, and trustees, including chapter 7, chapter 13 and chapter 11 trustees. Her work spans numerous industries, including manufacturing, hotel and hospitality, healthcare and medical facilities, and retail and commercial real estate. She represents parties such as banks and financial institutions, borrowers, debt buyers, asset buyers, landlords, and trade creditors in various proceedings, including bankruptcy cases, foreclosures, workouts, and receiverships. Her clients have also included bankruptcy trustees, a securities trustee under the Securities Investor Protection Act, state and federal receivers, and debtors. As part of her practice, Ms. Fugée represents clients in the investigation, prosecution and recovery of assets where fraudulent activity is involved, including Ponzi schemes, fraudulent transfers, bankruptcy fraud, bank fraud and similar conduct, as well as discharge litigation. In commercial litigation matters, Ms. Fugée has experience with the Uniform Commercial Code in the areas of secured transactions, sales, and banking (articles 2, 3, 4 and 9), as well as breach of contract matters, lender liability, lien disputes and other commercial disputes. Ms. Fugée’s practice on the transactional side includes workouts, restructurings, lending, and opinions, including enforceability, true lease, and substantive non-consolidation. Ms. Fugée has served as a state court receiver to operate and liquidate an industrial machinery dealer and several manufacturing businesses, and she has been appointed as an examiner under the Bankruptcy Code to investigate transactions in both 2011 and 2018. Since 2009, Ms. Fugée has been Board Certified in Creditors’ Rights Law by the American Board of Certification (“ABC”), which is a national organization dedicated to serving the public and improving the quality of the bar. She has served on the ABC’s Board of Directors for the last several years, and is serving as its Treasurer for 2019.