Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elevated several attorneys to equity partner, effective June 25.

The firm’s new equity partners include Shelly A. DeRousse and Steven D. Pearson. The attorneys previously were partners. 

DeRousse is co-leader of Freeborn’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group. She has extensive experience in the areas of bankruptcy, reorganization, litigation, and asset sales. As lead counsel, she has represented official creditors’ committees throughout the country in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Additionally, she represents companies and high earning individuals in their restructurings or workout negotiations with their lenders and other creditors.

Pearson is a member of Freeborn’s Litigation Practice Group and Insurance and Reinsurance Industry Team. His practice emphasizes the areas of insurance non-compete litigation, as well as insurance coverage, bad faith, reinsurance, non-medical professional liability defense and complex general commercial litigation. He also regularly litigates large scale attorney fee disputes and has testified as an expert witness in such matters.