Adam R. Prescott

Adam R. Prescott is a shareholder with Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A. in Portland, Maine, and has experience in a broad range of industries, including health care, hospitality, food and beverage, manufacturing, retail, technology, transportation and banking. His bankruptcy and restructuring practice focuses on representing debtors, lenders, trade creditors, and many other constituents in chapter 11 reorganizations, business disputes and litigation, out-of-court restructurings, and numerous other matters. Mr. Prescott’s recent bankruptcy experience includes serving as debtor’s counsel in multiple chapter 11 cases across northern New England and Delaware, including counsel to Vermont’s Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in a chapter 11 health care case, counsel to New Hampshire paper mills that successfully completed a §363 asset sale in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in December 2020, and counsel to multiple Maine small-business chapter 11 debtors, including in the hospitality, transportation and logging industries, that confirmed plans of reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maine in 2020, including representing both debtors in the first cases filed in Maine under the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA). In addition to his bankruptcy and restructuring practice, he has handled numerous litigation matters in state courts, federal district and appellate courts, and bankruptcy courts. Mr. Prescott has represented clients in litigation involving a broad array of business, commercial and antitrust disputes, and has litigated preference claims, relief-from-stay motions, fraudulent-transfer lawsuits and claim objections. He also is at the forefront of electronic discovery technology and practices and was a founding editor of the firm’s E-Discovery Field Guide, and in spring 2019 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Maine Law School, where he taught a course on litigation and e-discovery practice. In addition, Mr. Prescott has experience advising clients on antitrust and competition matters, including from his time practicing at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., before joining Bernstein Shur. His experience includes litigating Sherman Act claims and representing clients in civil and criminal antitrust investigations brought by the Department of Justice and state attorneys general. Mr. Prescott received his B.S. in 2009 with honors in economics from Trinity College, and his J.D. summa cum laude in 2012 from William & Mary School of Law, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif and ranked first in his graduating class.