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Emily S. Gottlieb
Senior Consultant

Ms. Gottlieb joined GCG in April 2007 as a Senior Consultant. Her wide-ranging responsibilities include providing ongoing client counsel, supervising client projects, and assisting with new business efforts.

Before joining GCG, Ms. Gottlieb was a senior associate with the Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group at the international law firm if DLA Piper US LLP, resident in its Chicago office, where she represented debtors, creditors committees, creditors and trustees in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases. Before working at DLA, Ms. Gottlieb worked as an associate in the Corporate Restructuring Practice Group of Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton (formerly Gardner, Carton & Douglas LLP) where she represented creditors including indenture trustees in many large bankruptcy cases.

Ms. Gottlieb is an author for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Educations book on Creditors Rights. She recently published an article in Current Trends in Insolvency Law entitled, A Look at Key Employee Retention Plans after Enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act: If it walks like a duck (KERP) and quacks like a duck (KERP), it's a duck.

Ms. Gottlieb is a Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from L oyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was an Executive Editor for the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. Ms. Gottlieb is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the International Womens Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation.