
biography
Ms. Fugée focuses her practice on all aspects of creditors’ rights law, including real estate lending transactions, bankruptcy, foreclosure, workout and commercial litigation matters. In lending matters, she serves on the Firm’s opinion team, providing mortgage enforceability opinions and bankruptcy opinions. In bankruptcy matters, she represents secured and unsecured creditors, landlords, asset buyers, and trustees, including chapter 7, chapter 13 and chapter 11 trustees, and she serves as a Subchapter V (small business) bankruptcy trustee, helping small businesses achieve consensual plans of reorganization. Her work spans numerous industries, including manufacturing, hotel and hospitality, healthcare and medical facilities, and retail and commercial real estate. She represents parties such as banks and financial institutions, borrowers, debt buyers, asset buyers, landlords, and trade creditors in various proceedings, including bankruptcy cases, foreclosures, workouts, and receiverships. Her clients have also included bankruptcy trustees, a securities trustee under the Securities Investor Protection Act, state and federal receivers, and debtors. Ms. Fugée has served as a state...
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Patricia Fugée
Partner | Chair, Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring & Reorganization
Credentials
Admissions
Illinois
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Western District of New York
Education
J.D., with high honors, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, 1990
B.A., Wellesley College, 1986 (mathematics; degree awarded in 3 years)
Prior Law Firm Experience
Sills Cummis & Gross
Roetzel & Andress