Overview
“An exceptional lawyer who provides valuable perspective both from a big-picture perspective and in terms of Delaware practice” (Chambers USA), Mark Collins is chair of the Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Department.
Recognized as a leading bankruptcy lawyer both in Delaware and throughout the U.S., Mark has been involved in hundreds of significant bankruptcy cases in Delaware. He has received Chambers’ prestigious Star Individual ranking every year since 2012, with Chambers reporting that Mark “gets strong results for his clients, and his work ethic and skill are top class.”
Mark has served as counsel to hundreds of large troubled companies, secured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, creditors’ committees, boards of directors (including special or independent committees), and acquirers of businesses and assets in large corporate chapter 11 cases, pre-packaged chapter 11 cases, chapter 15 cases, and out-of-court restructurings. He is a frequent lecturer at national corporate restructuring and bankruptcy seminars.
PRACTICES
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Lead Counsel
- Anchor Blue Retail Group
- Bowe Bell & Howell
- Corinthian Colleges
- Homer City Generation L.P.
- Hoop Holdings (d/b/a The Disney Stores)
- Linens n’ Things
- Paragon Offshore plc
- Phoenix Payment Systems (d/b/a EPX)
- Reliant Energy Channelview
- ResMAE Mortgage Company
- The Rockport Company
- Suntech America
- Teleglobe Communications Corporation
- TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
- Urban Brands
- WMC Mortgage, LLC
- Zany Brainy
Co-Counsel
- Advanced Marketing Systems
- Allied Systems Holdings
- Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.
- Brooks Brothers
- Cal Dive International
- Chaparral Energy, Inc.
- Elpida Memory
- Endeavour Operating Corp.
- Energy Future Holdings, Inc.
- The Hertz Corporation
- Golfsmith International Holdings, Inc.
- Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.
- Hancock Fabrics, Inc.
- Imerys Talc America, Inc.
- Insys Therapeutics, Inc.
- Mallinckrodt plc
- Magna Entertainment, Inc.
- New Century Financial Corporation
- Quiznos
- TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
- Takata
- Tower Records
- Tweeter Entertainment
- Verso Corporation
- Washington Mutual, Inc.
- The Weinstein Company
- American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
- Rutgers University, B.A.
Education
Publications
2015
Although credit bidding — in which the secured creditor can credit bid the amount of its allowed claim in any sale of its collateral by its debtor — is acknowledged as being an important part of the secured creditor’s bundle of rights, some argue that in certain circumstances credit bidding can chill bidding or otherwise prevent…
Presentations
TMA 2017 Symposium
April 20, 2017
2016 TMA Annual For-Profit Education Panel
November 1, 2016
ABI/Georgetown Law – Bankruptcy: 2016 Views from the Bench
October 7, 2016
2016 Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop
August 4, 2016
2016 Distressed Investing Summit
January 27, 2016
88th Annual Conference of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges
October 8, 2014
Southern Bankruptcy Law Institute
March 20, 2014
The Official Receiver’s International Conference on Corporate Insolvency
January 19, 2014
ABI/Georgetown Law – Bankruptcy: 2013 Views from the Bench
September 27, 2013
ABI Mid-Level Professional Development Program
November 9, 2012
Bankruptcy Litigation Advocacy Program
March 11, 2011
6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop – Sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute
August 5, 2010
Leadership
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Asset Sales Advisory Committee to the Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, Co-Chair
- Finance & Banking Committee, Past Co-Chair
- 40 Under 40 Steering Committee
- Delaware State Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, Legislation Committee, Co-Chair
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Business Bankruptcy Committee
- Bankruptcy: Views from the Bench, ABI/Georgetown University Law Center, Board of Advisors
Recognition
- American College of Bankruptcy, Fellow
- Chambers USA, Delaware, Star Individual, since 2012; USA Nationwide, 2024
- Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020
- The Best Lawyers in America, since 2001; Wilmington, DE Banking and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year, 2025; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year, 2024, 2015, 2014, 2012
- Super Lawyers, Top 10, 2024, 2011-2021
- Who’s Who Legal, Thought Leader in Restructuring and Insolvency, since 2017
- IFLR1000
- Delaware Today Top Lawyer, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013; Top Vote Getter, Bankruptcy, 2015, 2013
- Turnaround Management Association, Large Company – Transaction of the Year Award, 2012
Bar Admissions
- Delaware, 1991
- United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- United States District Court, District of Delaware