About Norman

Norman Orr is a shareholder. A significant portion of his more than forty years of commercial and corporate experience has been in connection with the purchase and sale of businesses, formation of businesses, financing transactions, shareholder/partner disputes, and negotiating and drafting various types of business agreements. Mr. Orr’s experience with financing transactions includes representation of secured lenders, including commercial banks and purchasers of accounts. He has also represented numerous borrowers in both traditional commercial loan transactions and securitization transactions. He represents businesses at the inception of loan transactions and in connection with modifications of those transactions. Mr. Orr participates in a wide variety of insolvency proceedings. He has been involved in various aspects of Chapter 11 proceedings, including acting as counsel for debtors, individual creditors (both secured and unsecured), creditors’ committees and as counsel for trustees. He assists clients in non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings, including composition arrangements and non-bankruptcy liquidation procedures such as receiverships, assignments for benefit of creditors and trust chattel mortgage proceedings. He also represents debtors and/or creditors’ committees in various out-of-court restructurings, compositions and liquidations. Mr. Orr represents borrowers in negotiating forbearance agreements and voluntary surrender agreements with their lenders and has represented lenders in the same types of transactions. He maintains an ”AV“ peer review rating with Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest peer review rating for attorneys. Mr. Orr has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021 in the field of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of SC).

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Education

• University of Michigan, graduated 1975
• University of Pennsylvania, graduated 1972

Bar Admissions

• Michigan, 1975

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