Alyson M. Fiedler is a partner in Ice Miller’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group. She has been involved in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases, having served as counsel to creditors, creditors’ committees, debtors, fiduciaries and other interested parties. She has earned a national reputation among clients and peers for being a seasoned and skilled insolvency litigator with the right balance of tenacity, poise and professionalism. This balance enables her to succeed through litigation or consensual negotiations, even amidst the most heated and contested of environments.
In addition to handling highly contested insolvency and creditors’ rights matters on a national platform, Alyson is often called upon by fiduciaries, debtors, senior management and boards of directors of financially troubled companies to provide advice with respect to “in-court” and “out-of-court” restructuring strategies. She often advises on cross-border insolvency proceedings, non-judicial loan restructuring, workouts and other alternatives to the bankruptcy process, including state court insolvency proceedings, sales, receiverships and foreclosures.
Alyson is also a founding member of Ice Miller’s Distressed Investment Group (“DIG”), which focuses on distressed investment strategies and transactions, including bankruptcy and in-court restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and other insolvency-related transactions. Alyson has more than 20 years of experience in advising clients on complex strategic investing in the distressed market, including advising on loan-to-own strategies, debt restructurings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, claims trading, distressed real estate acquisitions, section 363 sales, rescue capital deployment and other investment situations.
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Alyson has received national awards for her writing, has long been recognized in
New York and
New Jersey Super Lawyers for bankruptcy and received the highest rating from her peers in
Martindale-Hubbell. She serves as the Education Director for the Secured Credit Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Alyson earned her juris doctor from St. John’s University School of Law, where she served as an articles and notes editor for the
American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and judicial extern for the Honorable Dorothy Eisenberg, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York. She graduated from Dickinson College with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and fine arts.
Alyson is licensed to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey, including the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.