Email: fgecker@fgllp.com
Phone: 312-276-1401
Fax: 312-276-0035

Frances Gecker represents and counsels financial institutions, corporations, creditors' committees and investors in commercial law, restructuring and insolvency issues. Her practice ranges from structuring agreements for clients on the frontiers of e-business, to representing multinational corporations in cross-border insolvencies, to assisting clients in buying and selling distressed debt and assets.

She has written numerous articles on bankruptcy issues, including the seminal article, "The Doctrine of Necessity and Its Parameters," which has been widely cited by courts throughout the country. Frances has recently lectured at the National Railroad Finance Conference on cross-border insolvencies and at the American Bankruptcy Institute Leadership Conference.

She is past chair of the Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association. Frances has been appointed by the United States Trustee to serve as a trustee for the Northern District of Illinois and is a member of the Trustee Advisory Panel. She is a member of the Federal Trial Bar and is admitted to practice before the Third, Fifth, Seventh and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Frances graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin.

She earned her J.D. in 1988 with highest honors from Northwestern University School of Law where she was a member of the Editorial Board of Northwestern Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.