Brett A. Axelrod

Fox Rothschild, LLP

Las Vegas, NV

Partner

For more than 25 years, Brett has focused her practice on the representation of Chapter 11 debtors and unsecured creditors' committees and has worked on some of the largest bankruptcy cases in the state of Nevada.

Managing Partner of the firm's Las Vegas office and a past Co-Chair of the firm's nationwide Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department, Brett has a broad range of experience in insolvency and corporate restructuring matters and concentrates in the areas of business reorganization and bankruptcy, asset sales and acquisitions and gaming.

She represents clients in the gaming, real estate and mining industries across the country, and has built a strong reputation for her strategic handling of complex, high-profile bankruptcy cases. Brett has represented a variety of businesses as well as secured creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings and purchasers in 363 sales.

Bar Admissions

California & Nevada

Services

Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Cannabis Law

Gaming

Court Admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court, Central District of California

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

U.S. District Court, District of Nevada

U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota

Education

Duke University School of Law (J.D., 1993)

California State University, Northridge (B.S., with honors, 1990)

Memberships

Litigation Counsel of America

Turnaround Management Association, Nevada Chapter (Director)

American Bankruptcy Institute

Honors & Awards

Named to the "Top Lawyers" list for Bankruptcy Law by Vegas Inc. (2013, 2022)

Selected to the "Best Lawyers in America" list for Litigation - Bankruptcy (2011-2023), Creditor-Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2010-2023) in Las Vegas, NV by Best Lawyers

Named to the "Lawyer of the Year" list in Nevada for Bankruptcy Law by Best Lawyers (2021) Named to the Super Lawyers' Mountain States Top 100 (2012-2017, 2019-2021 )

Named as one of the Top 50 Women Mountain States Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers magazine (2012-2021) Named to the "Mountain States Super Lawyers" list for Bankruptcy: Business in Las Vegas (2007-2022)

Named one of the Top 100 attorneys in Nevada in the Legal Elite edition by Nevada Business Magazine (2017, 2018) Named among the "Legal Elite" attorneys in Nevada, highlighting the top 3% of attorneys in the state (2013-2014, 2016) M&A Advisor Real Estate Deal of the Year for the Purchase of Veris Gold USA, Inc. assets by Whitebox Advisors, LLC (2015)

Named among the "Women Leaders in the Law" by ALM (2015)

Named among the Top 150 attorneys in Southern Nevada in the Legal Elite edition of Nevada Business Magazine

Named "2008 Bankruptcy Practitioner of the Year" by Turnaround Management Association of Nevada (2009)

Due to her involvement in the firm's Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department, Brett helped Fox earn the 2016 Nevada - Bankruptcy & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year Award from Global Law Experts

Named in "Super Lawyers Business Edition" in the area of Business and Transactions (2013) Selected as a "Who's Who" in Nevada Business Magazine

Ranked AV® PreeminentTM 5.0 out of 5 (AV® PreeminentTM and BV® DistinguishedTM are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies) Editor for revisions of chapters 1,2,4,5 and 7 of "Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide"

About AIRA

AIRA is a nonprofit professional association serving the bankruptcy, restructuring and turnaround practice area. AIRA's membership consists of accountants, financial advisors, investment bankers, attorneys, workout consultants, trustees, and others in the field of business turnaround, restructuring and bankruptcy. AIRA members are among the most trusted and sought-after professionals in matters dealing with limited capital resources and deteriorating operating performance.

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