Norman D. Orr

Norman D. Orr


Kemp Klein

Recognized since 2019

Troy, Michigan

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Corporate Law

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Norman Orr is a shareholder. A significant portion of his more than forty years of commercial and corporate experience has been in connection with the purchase and sale of businesses, formation of businesses, financing transactions, shareholder/partner disputes, and negotiating and drafting various types of business agreements.

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.

He 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© 2021 in the field of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of SC).

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Location
  • 201 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 600
    Troy, MI 48084
Education
  • University of Michigan, graduated 1975
  • University of Pennsylvania, graduated 1972
Bar Admissions
  • Michigan, 1975

Kemp Klein
Headquarters: Troy, Michigan

20 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

4 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards

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Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Corporate Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
  • Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
  • Commercial Finance Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law

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