Samuel M. Andre

Associate

Email: sandre@fredlaw.com
Office: 612.492.7080
Assistant: Sherrie Timm, 612.492.7802

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PRIMARY SERVICE

Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Workouts
Litigation

Overview

Sam’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring, creditors’ remedies, bankruptcy and commercial litigation.

Sam represents businesses, commercial lenders and individuals in the areas of debtor/creditor law, bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation. He works closely with clients to understand their specific financial and operating concerns and provides practical guidance on how to address critical issues.

Prior to joining Fredrikson & Byron, Sam served as a judicial law clerk for the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas.

Articles & Presentations

Serving Up Some Help: How Subchapter V Can Solve Problems for Service Industry Debtors During the Time of COVID-19

June 25, 2020

By Libby Jacobson and Samuel M. Andre

As COVID-19 continues to devastate the U.S. and local economies, the service industry in particular has experienced substantial declines in both business and profits. However, the new Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and the CARES Act have provided service industry debtors with new and potentially life-saving tools to solve their unique debt issues moving forward.

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A Beacon in a Storm: Responding to the COVID-19 Financial Crisis

March 30, 2020

Executives and their companies facing a financial storm brought on by the pandemic can find themselves in an overwhelming spot. Fredrikson attorneys provide a next-steps checklist and wealth of resources to help weather the storm.

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Keeping Your Bankruptcy Practice in the Twenty-First Century: The Expanding Issue of Cryptocurrency

February 11, 2020

By Samuel M. Andre and Nicholas Hankins

What is cryptocurrency? Bankruptcy practitioners and the courts better figure it out soon as the growth in popularity of cryptocurrencies continues to create new legal issues under the Bankruptcy Code.

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Now at the Supreme Court, Will the Ninth Circuit’s In Re Taggart Decision Affect Sanctions for Willful Violations of the Discharge Injunction?

May 13, 2019

By Samuel M. Andre

After the Ninth Circuit in In re Taggart set a new and narrow precedent regarding exactly what a creditor must do in order to be subject to civil contempt sanctions for a violation of the discharge injunction, the ball is now with the U.S. Supreme Court to determine what influence that extraordinary opinion will have on other courts.

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The Southern District of Texas: The Next Big Venue in Commercial Bankruptcy?

October 10, 2018

By Samuel M. Andre

The Southern District of Texas’s recent popularity in commercial filings, stemming from a number of factors, makes it a new contender to be one of the busiest commercial bankruptcy districts in the country.

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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Co-author, “Agricultural Distress and Possible Solutions – How North Dakota’s Farmers Can Sow Seeds for a Financial Turnaround,” Fargo INC! Magazine, December 2020
Co-author, “Expect the Unexpected,” Journal of Corporate Renewal, Turnaround Management Association, March 2020
“Striking Before the Well Goes Dry: Exploring If and How the United States Ban on Crude Oil Exports Should be Lifted to Exploit the American Oil Boom,” Minnesota Law Review, Volume 100, Issue 2, 2015

Honors & Education

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2016, cum laude
Valparaiso University, B.A., 2013, summa cum laude

BAR ADMISSIONS

Minnesota, 2018
Texas, 2016 (inactive)

HONORS

Phi Beta Kappa
Minnesota State Bar Association, North Star Lawyer, 2018-2019
Stinson Leonard Street Law Review Award, University of Minnesota, 2016

Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Turnaround Management Association
Minnesota State Bar Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association, 2016-2018
Houston Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers, 2016-2018
Judicial Law Clerk, the Honorable Marvin Isgur, United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas, 2016-2018
Student Director and Attorney, Land, Water and Energy Clinic, University of Minnesota Law School, 2014-2016
Managing Editor, Minnesota Law Review, 2015-2016