Education & Honors

The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2007, with Highest Honors

Only recipient of highest honors in the Class of 2007

Hinton Moot Court Competition Winner, 2004-2005

Bradley Student Fellowship, 2006-2007

Chairman, The Edmund Burke Society

Founder, The Hemingway Society

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, M.B.A., 2007, with High Honors

Highest Academic Distinction (awarded to the top 5% of graduating class)

W. Allen Wallis Distinguished Fellowship

Harvard University, B.A., 2003, magna cum laude

Awarded high honors for senior thesis, Defending Metaphysics:  A Kantian Critique of Rawls

Government service

Judicial Law Clerk, Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, United States Supreme Court, 2008-2009

Judicial Law Clerk, Honorable Richard Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2007-2008 

Bar admissions

Illinois 

Professional activities and community service

Lecturer in Law, The University of Chicago Law School, Fall 2009.  Responsible for teaching a seminar titled "Distressed Investing and Bankruptcy Litigation."

Member, Board of Directors for Scot Industries, the nation’s premier supplier of specialty tubing and bar products

Ashley C. Keller

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Professional Practice

Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, 2009-Present, Partner (since 2012)

Current representations

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP v. Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (Federal District Court, Northern District of California)
Representing MGIC in a $100 million mortgage insurance dispute with Countrywide.

Elliott Associates, L.P. v. Porsche SE
Representing hedge funds in securities fraud and manipulation lawsuit against Porsche SE related to Porsche SE's attempted takeover of Volkswagen AG in 2008. Damages in excess of $2 billion. Case pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Appellate representations

Radlax Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank (Supreme Court of the United States)
Appellate counsel (with my colleagues Adam Mortara and Vince Buccola) representing a group of bankruptcy scholars in connection with amicus brief at the certiorari stage.  Case involves the permissibility of credit bidding at bankruptcy auctions.  Petition pending.
Click here to read the brief.

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v. Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (9th Cir. 2010-2011)
Represented MGIC, a leading provider of mortgage insurance, in ongoing dispute with Countrywide.  Obtained reversal of the district court’s order remanding the dispute to state court in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Acknowledgements, presentations, and publications

Publications

3V Capital Master Fund Ltd. v. Official Comm. of Unsecured Creditors of TOUSA, Inc. (In re TOUSA, Inc.), (S.D. Fla. Feb. 11, 2011):  “Value” is not enough., BBHPS Memo (February 17, 2011) (with J.B. Heaton).

Credit Bidding and the Design of Bankruptcy Auctions, 18 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 99 (2010) (with Vincent Buccola). Cited in In re Philadelphia Newspapers, 599 F.3d 289 (3d Cir. 2010) (Ambro, J., dissenting); River Road Hotel Partners, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank, ___F.3d___, 2011 WL 2547615 (7th Cir. 2011).

Presentations

Moderator, Chicago Booth Private Equity Group's 9th Annual Private Equity Conference. Discussed recent trends in distressed investing including amend-and-extend, loan-to-own, and 363 sales. Click here for more information. 

Panelist, Chicago Booth Distressed Investing and Restructuring Group's Fifth Annual Conference (April 2010). Panel to discuss recent evolutions in bankruptcy law and the changing regulatory environment surrounding 363 sales.  Click here for more information. 

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