Elisa R. Lemmer is a member of the Firm’s Business Finance & Restructuring Department. Ms. Lemmer has represented debtors, creditors, lenders, and plan proponents in some of the Firm’s most notable chapter 11 cases, including American Airlines, General Growth Properties, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Pilgrim’s Pride, Silicon Graphics, PG&E, and Armstrong World Industries. She has also represented large institutional creditors in out-of-court restructurings and pre-packaged and pre-negotiated chapter 11 cases.
Ms. Lemmer also has worked on many pro bono matters including representing clients in child adoptions and assisting Holocaust survivors in applying for reparations from the German government.
She has published on a variety of bankruptcy-related topics and is an editor of Weil’s Bankruptcy Blog.
Ms. Lemmer received a B.A., with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2000, where she was, among other things, a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Ms. Lemmer is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She is also a member of the Bankruptcy Bar Association in the Southern District of Florida. Ms. Lemmer was named a 2010 and 2013 Florida Rising Star by Florida Super Lawyers magazine.