Edmond George JD LLM

Edmond M. George is a partner with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP and the chairman of the firm’s Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and Financial Reorganization Department. Mr. George has extensive experience with all types of commercial litigation, and business transactions including the financial and tax aspects of business reorganizations and the representation of debtors, trustees, secured lenders and committees in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. George also has extensive experience in out of court workouts, restructuring, intercreditor agreements and other arrangements. Mr. George has extensive trial experience in all areas of commercial law, including collections, shareholder disputes, construction disputes, and other commercial contract disputes. Since joining Obermayer in 1987, Mr. George has litigated various matters before regulatory bodies, and in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Washington D.C. He has successfully reorganized dozens of companies. Mr. George has also been involved in many of the area's largest and most important bankruptcy cases. Mr. George’s civic activities include providing legal services to the indigent through the Philadelphia VIP Program. He is also a frequent writer and lecturer on bankruptcy law, presenting programs for the Bankruptcy Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Mr. George is also active in his community where he served for nearly a decade as a member and Vice Chairman of the Moorestown Economic Development Advisory Committee, where Mr. George has used his financial and business background to tackle local issues in Moorestown, NJ. Mr. George is a member of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington D.C. Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington D.C., the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.