Rob Cox

Mr. Cox joined HSSM at the beginning of 2021, bringing over twenty years of experience in the legal areas of restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency. Mr. Cox is board certified as a specialist in the area of Business Bankruptcy Law. He has represented corporate debtors, creditors’ committees, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, distressed asset acquirers, lessors, and equity holders in bankruptcy cases and out of court restructurings in matters throughout the United States. He also has substantial experience in representing parties in bankruptcy related litigation, having prosecuted and defended dozens of bankruptcy adversary proceedings. As part of HSSM’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring + Creditors’ Rights practice group, Mr. Cox focuses on assisting companies (big and small) in out of court work outs, restructurings, and, to the extent necessary, Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. He also represents creditors, distressed asset acquirers, and other parties in interest in bankruptcy and insolvency related matters.

Mr. Cox is active in the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, having served as the Chair of the section from 2011-12, and is currently the co-chair of the Business Subcommittee. He is also committed to pro bono and community service, serving on the board of Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, as a “Champion” for driver’s license restoration in the Charlotte Pro Bono Triage project, and on the board of Arts+, a 50 year old non-profit organization focused on providing arts education to students of all ages, skill levels, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Mr. Cox experience in bankruptcy and restructuring began with a judicial clerkship with The Honorable J. Craig Whitley, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of North Carolina. Subsequent to that clerkship, he worked as an associate with Rayburn Cooper & Durham, P.A., representing companies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, and then as an associate/partner at McGuireWoods LLP, where his work included serving on the team representing U.S. Airways in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Most recently before joining HSSM, Mr. Cox was a partner in the Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights practice group at Bradley Arant Boult & Cummings LLP.