Jarret P. Hitchings
Jarret P. Hitchings
Jarret P. Hitchings
Biography
Jarret P. Hitchings is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Finance Transactions Department, with experience in restructuring, insolvency and special situations. In particular, Jarret’s practice focuses on distressed asset litigation, including federal bankruptcy and state court liquidation proceedings. Jarret is active in matters across the country and internationally on behalf of debtors, creditors, fiduciaries, and foreign representatives in the United States. He has significant experience practicing in the country’s principal business courts including the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Delaware, Southern District of New York and the Southern District of Texas, as well as Delaware’s Court of Chancery.
Jarret graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, and the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the firm, Jarret was a litigation and restructuring partner in the Delaware office of another large international law firm. He is a member of the INSOL International and a member of Class X of the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Leadership Program. Since 2016, he has authored, either individually or as a co-author, numerous articles that have been published in The Legal Intelligencer, Law360, ABI Journal, Delaware Business Court Insider and INSOL World.
Professional Affiliations
- International Insolvency Institute, NextGen Leadership Program (Member, Class X)
- Delaware State Bar Association, Litigation and Bankruptcy Sections
- INSOL International, Member
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Newsletter Editor for the Emerging Industries and Technology Committee; Advisory Board Member for the Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop
Admissions
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North Carolina, 2023
Pennsylvania, 2011
Delaware, 2011
Education
Villanova University, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2010
Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 2007
Related Practice Areas
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Restructuring & Insolvency/Special Situations
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Finance
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Distressed Real Estate
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Financial Institutions
Experience
- Lead bankruptcy litigation counsel to US subsidiaries of multinational industrial engineering and construction firm in their chapter 11 cases, achieving approval of significant asset sales in support of global divestment.
- Lead US counsel to assignee in an assignment-for-the-benefit-of-creditors (ABC) of Irish e-learning enterprise, winning approval of successful sale transaction and managing related litigation before the Delaware Chancery Court.
- Delaware counsel to a commercial creditor of an insolvent reinsurance carrier with respect to the carrier’s state-ordered receivership pending before the Delaware Chancery Court.
- Lead litigation counsel for financial institution with respect to successful defence of federal lending and collection practices actions in federal and state forums.
- Litigation counsel to Spanish pharmaceutical company in fiduciary duty and books-and-records litigation against American portfolio company in the Delaware Chancery Court.
- Litigation counsel to secured lender and special loan servicer in connection with state law commercial loan default and foreclosure litigation before the Delaware Superior Court.
- Bankruptcy litigation counsel to secured lender in connection with the chapter 11 litigation, reorganization and refinancing of significant theme-park area hotel property.
- Lead US bankruptcy counsel to the foreign representatives and joint administrators of a Guernsey holding company in connection with chapter 15 recognition proceedings in the United States.
- US bankruptcy counsel to the foreign representatives and joint official liquidators for Cayman Island hedge fund in connection with the case administration and wind-down of chapter 15 cases for feeder-fund affiliates.
- Bankruptcy litigation counsel to energy logistics company in connection with the multi-million dollar claims litigation against exploration and production company during its chapter 11 reorganization.
- Delaware counsel to the official committee of unsecured creditors of an international metals recycling company in connection with the company’s successful chapter 11 restructuring.
Resources
Publications
- Quoted, “Bankruptcy Cases And Trends To Watch In 2023,” Law360, January 2, 2023
- Author, "'In re Kidbox.com': The 1-2-3’s of Obtaining Stay Relief in ABCs," Delaware Business Court Insider, June 15, 2022
- Co-author, "Proceed with Caution: Chapter 15 at the Intersection of the CSA and Bankruptcy Code," Turnaround Management Association Journal of Corporate Renewal, November 2021
- Quoted, "Proposed Federal Bankruptcy Venue Restriction Could Be a Blow for Delaware," Delaware Business Court Insider, June 30, 2021
- Author, "Is Chapter 15 Available to a Cannabis MSO? In the Face of Uncertainty, Tread Lightly," INSOL World, 2nd Quarter 2021
- Author, "Chancery Considers Measure of Damages in Case Involving Cancer Therapeutics Company," Delaware Business Court Insider, June 16, 2021
- Quoted, "Suit Over Brooks Brothers Sale Shows Chap. 11's Shadow," Women's Wear Daily, May 21, 2021
- Co-author, "Rejection of FERC-Regulated Agreements: Is In re Ultra Petroleum the Last Word?" American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, February 2021
- Author, "Chancery's Narrow Construction of Forum Selection Clause Preserves Venue of Fiduciary Duty Litigation in Del.," Delaware Business Court Insider, June 24, 2020
- Co-author, "Sympathy for the Debtor? Not When It Comes to Student Loans," Law.com, November 14, 2019
- Author, "Don't Be a Maverick: Chancery Reinforces Limits on Attorney-Client Privilege," Delaware Business Court Insider, August 21, 2019
- Co-author, "Limitations on the Utility of Testimony Elicited During a Section 341 Meeting," The Legal Intelligencer, May 23, 2019
- Co-author, "Approval of Fee Defense Provisions in Retention Agreements Post-'ASARCO'," The Legal Intelligencer, February 15, 2018
- Co-author, "Court: Debt to Paramour Obtained by Fraud Partially Nondischargeable," The Legal Intelligencer, October 6, 2017
- Co-author, "One Contract, Indivisible, With Defenses and 'Kiwi' for All," The Legal Intelligencer, July 3, 2017
- Co-author, "Pssst, Can You Keep a Secret? Unperfected 'Secret' Liens as a Preference Defense," American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, June 2017
- Author, "Colleges Should Note A New Trend Among Bankruptcy Trustees," Law360, October 12, 2016
- Co-author, "A Tale of Two States: Puerto Rico and Chapter 9," The Legal Intelligencer, June 30, 2016
Speaking Engagements
- Panelist, North Carolina Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section, Hot Topics in Bankruptcy (November 2022)
- Panelist, Around the World: Updates on Amendments to Insolvency Regulations and Their Significance, International Insolvency Institute Annual Meeting (September, 2022)
- Panelist, The Basics of Blockchain and its Effects on Your Next Restructure, American Bankruptcy Institute, Annual Spring Meeting (April 2022)
- Panelist, Beyond the Surface of Venue: Real World Bankruptcy Practice in 2018, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Annual Meeting (October 2018)
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