Mr. Orr’s experience with financing transactions includes representation of secured lenders, including commercial banks and purchasers of accounts. He has also represented numerous borrowers in both traditional commercial loan transactions and securitization transactions. He represents businesses at the inception of loan transactions and in connection with modifications of those transactions.
Mr. Orr participates in a wide variety of insolvency proceedings. He has been involved in various aspects of Chapter 11 proceedings, including acting as counsel for debtors, individual creditors (both secured and unsecured), creditors’ committees and as counsel for trustees. He assists clients in non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings, including composition arrangements and non-bankruptcy liquidation procedures such as receiverships, assignments for benefit of creditors and trust chattel mortgage proceedings. He also represents debtors and/or creditors’ committees in various out-of-court restructurings, compositions and liquidations.
Mr. Orr represents borrowers in negotiating forbearance agreements and voluntary surrender agreements with their lenders and has represented lenders in the same types of transactions.
Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan, 1975
B.S., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Bar and Court Admissions
State Bar of Michigan, 1975
Memberships
State Bar of Michigan Corporation, Finance and Business Law Section (Debtor Creditor Rights Committee and UCC Committees) Real Property Section
American Bar Association Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section Committee on Business Bankruptcy
American Bankruptcy Institute Business Reorganization Committee Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee
Norman Orr maintains an “AV” peer review rating with Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest peer review rating for attorneys.
Mr. Orr has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2019 in the fields of Corporate Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.
DBusiness Magazine recognized Mr. Orr as a 2025 DBusiness Top Lawyer for his work in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law.