Christopher M. Cahill

Senior Counsel


Christopher Cahill guides businesses to optimize their relationships with vendors, customers, and lenders for enhanced market presence, returns, and liquidity. 

Christopher acts as outside general counsel for a heat-treating company that serves the automobile manufacturing supply chain and fulfills a similar role for an executive producer of feature films, television shows, and documentaries. He also has experience representing lenders and creditor manufacturers and commodity suppliers. During his career’s first half, Chris practiced at national law firms representing mega-debtors, asset purchasers, and most categories of creditors.

Christopher has published extensively on the matters referred to above. He is the sole author of the second edition of “Illinois Practice: Uniform Commercial Code Forms Annotated,” a treatise annually updated and published by West. He co-authors “The Law of Debtors and Creditors,” also a treatise annually updated and published by West. From 2014 and 2022, Christopher was Executive Editor for the annually updated treatise “Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation,” also published by West, for which he co-authored the substantive introductory chapter and the chapter on purchasing assets out of bankruptcy cases. In addition, he has published several dozen papers on restructuring topics, served as panelist or moderator on 90 webinars, and hosted a similar number of podcasts on general business and investing topics and personalities.

    • University of Michigan Law School, Juris Doctorate, 1996
    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ph. D. in Political Science
  • Bar Admissions

    • Illinois
    • Lawyers Land a Hand to Youth, Board of Directors

    • TUTA Theatre Company, Former Board Member

    • Baroque Band, Former Board Member

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Press Releases8.15.24

216 Dykema Lawyers Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 and Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch”

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 216 of its attorneys, in multiple practice…

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Speaking Engagements5.17.24

ITFA Americas 27th Annual Conference - Key Legal Challenges

Chris Cahill will serve as a featured presenter at the International Trade and Forfaiting…

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Webinars4.16.24

Digital Assets In Commerce & Bankruptcy - 2024 - Digital Assets as Collateral: UCC Article 12

Chris Cahill facilitated the West LegalEdcenter's webinar, "Digital Assets In Commerce & Bankruptcy …

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