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Sherri L. Dahl

Senior Associate

Sherri Dahl’s practice includes general bankruptcy matters with a focus on Chapter 11 reorganization and creditors’ rights matters. She represents debtors, creditors’ committees, individual creditors, and both secured and unsecured lenders in bankruptcy matters and workouts.

Sherri was a law clerk for The Honorable William T. Bodoh of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Ohio.

Sherri was recognized as a Rising Star in the 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 editions of Ohio Super Lawyers – Rising Stars magazine, a distinction that recognizes the top 2.5 percent of Ohio lawyers under the age of 40 or those in practice for 10 years or less. Sherri was also listed in the 2012 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers.

Sherri is currently vice president of development on the board of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation and on the executive committee for the Cleveland Chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. In 2010 she was awarded the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Presidents’ Award for her exceptional service to the Bar and the legal community as the Fundraising Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation.

Representative Experience

    • Representing a debtor bank holding company in Chapter 11 proceedings.
    • Representing a debtor Amish investment club in Chapter 7 proceedings.
    • Representing a debtor mattress company in Chapter 7 proceedings.
    • Representing a buyer in a Delaware 363 sale of a steel company in Chapter 11 proceedings.
    • Representing a secured lender in a 363 sale and liquidation of an aluminum company in Chapter 11 proceedings.
    • Representing a secured lender in Chapter 11 proceedings of an automotive containers manufacturer.
    • Representing a secured lender in hundreds of nationwide consumer mortgage activities.
    • Representing individual creditors in an entertainment industry bankruptcy.
    • Representing a debtor construction company in Chapter 11 proceedings.
    • Representing a creditors’ committee for a coal mining company in Chapter 11 proceedings.
    • Representing plaintiffs and defendants in more than 350 lawsuits seeking the return of payments made during the “preference period.”
    • Representing several debtor steel companies in Chapter 11 proceedings. 
    • Representing a debtor plastics company in Chapter 11 proceedings.

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    Education

    The Ohio State University, J.D., managing editor, The Ohio State Law Journal, 2000
    University of Redlands, B.S., 1997

    Admissions

    Ohio, 2001
    U.S. Ct. of App., Sixth Circuit
    U.S. Dist. Ct., N. Dist. of Ohio
    U.S. Dist. Ct., S. Dist. of Ohio
    U.S. Dist. Ct., W. Dist. of Pennsylvania