Cherie D. Nobles

Special Counsel

cnobles@fishmanhaygood.com

Practice Focus

Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Fraudulent Transfer and Specialized Bankruptcy Litigation

Cherie Dessauer Nobles focuses her practice on bankruptcy and debtor-creditor rights, representing a broad range of clients—from large, complex companies to smaller businesses—in chapter 11 and chapter 7 proceedings and out-of-court restructurings.

“Cherie is an excellent writer, communicator and in-court advocate. She is a really good person to have on the team and is solid as a rock.” —Bankruptcy and Restructuring Client, Chambers and Partners

She has experience advising debtors, trustees, unsecured creditors’ committees, and individual creditors in complex commercial bankruptcies and related workout matters.

As part of the firm’s bankruptcy team, Cherie has had significant experience successfully representing creditors’ committees in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, including Energy XXI, Louisiana Heart Hospital, Acadiana Management Group, Petroquest Energy and Seahawk Drilling, and debtors, like Knight Energy Holdings and Harvest Oil & Gas, in major bankruptcy cases. The team has been a key participant in bankruptcy cases and workouts across the country.

Cherie was part of the Fishman Haygood team that served as bankruptcy counsel to Clark, Love & Hutson, a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee representing approximately 15,000 claimants in the 3M Combat Arms Earplug MDL, the largest multidistrict litigation in U.S. history. Following a landmark trial victory allowing the MDL to proceed, the litigation ultimately resulted in a historic global settlement for military veterans asserting hearing-loss claims.

She frequently speaks on topics in bankruptcy law, most recently serving as a panelist at the 28th and 27th Louisiana State University Annual Bankruptcy Law Conferences.

Cherie is the former co-chair of the Louisiana chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and previously served as committee chair for the bankruptcy section of the New Orleans Bar Association. She is also a current member of the Association for Women Attorneys – New Orleans.

Experience

Represents the chapter 11 Trustee in the jointly administered bankruptcy cases of Westbank Holdings, LLC, et al., owners of low-income housing properties throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Represents Louisiana St. Gabriel, LLC, et al., owners and operators of trucking terminals, as debtor’s counsel in jointly administered chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.
Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 proceedings of Alfred Miller Contracting Company, a nationwide construction contractor, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Represents the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of S2 Operating, LLC in chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Provided bankruptcy counsel to Clark, Love & Hutson, a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the 3M Combat Arms Earplug MDL, representing approximately 15,000 claimants in the largest multidistrict litigation in U.S. history, arising from the chapter 11 filings of Aearo Technologies LLC and affiliated debtors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Publications / Presentations

Publications

Author, Bankruptcy Recent Developments, Louisiana Bar Journal.
Author, Federal Bar Association, Weekly Circuit Updates — Bankruptcy Section.
Co-author, numerous CLE seminar materials.

Presentations

Co-chair, LSBA seminar, “Bird’s-Eye View: Bankruptcy from Trustees’ Perspectives,” April 2023.
Panelist, LSU 28th Annual Bankruptcy Law Conference, “Hot Topics in Chapter 11: Confidentiality and Privilege, Third-Party Injunctions and Releases, and UST Fee Litigation,” Nov. 2022.
Panelist, LSU 27th Annual Bankruptcy Law Conference, “Ethics: Professional Retention Issues,” Dec. 2021.
Panelist, Fifth Circuit Bankruptcy Bench-Bar Conference, “Supreme Court Updates,” Feb. 6, 2020
Panelist, EDLA Bench-Bar Conference, “The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019: Do Small Businesses Now Have a Big Opportunity?”
Speaker, LSBA seminar, “Health Care Bankruptcies: What Happens When the Health Care Provider Is Sick?”
Speaker, “Preserving and Prosecuting Claims Post-Confirmation.”