A member of the New York and Utah bars, Mr. Mabey's service in complex workout, bankruptcy, reorganization, and litigation matters includes:  Extended Stay Hotels (as examiner); Lehman Brothers (as court-appointed mediator); A.H. Robins Company (as examiner with expanded powers); Dow Corning (as counsel for certain bondholders);  Columbia Gas System (as equity committee counsel); Federated Department Stores (as counsel for the official pre-merger bondholders committee); TWA (as counsel for the pilots); American Airlines (as counsel for the pilots); Enron (as special counsel for the debtor); Cajun Electric Power Cooperative (as chapter 11 trustee); Boston Chicken (as an expert witness); and ASARCO (as an expert witness).

Mr. Mabey received his law degree from Columbia University where he served on the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review.  He is a past Chair of the American College of Bankruptcy and served as an appointee of the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on the Bankruptcy Rules.  He has also served as the managing editor of the Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, on the Editorial Advisory Board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and currently serves as a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy.  Mr. Mabey is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, the American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute. He was honored with the 2009 Distinguished Service Award by the American College of Bankruptcy.

Mr. Mabey is also an active teacher, and presently serves as Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.  From 1983–2006, Mr. Mabey was a Senior Lecturer at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

Mr. Mabey is an active writer on bankruptcy-related topics.  Some publications include: Coordination Among Insolvency Courts in the Rescue of Multi-National Enterprises (with Susan Power Johnston), Annual Review of International Insolvency, 2009; The Evolving Bankruptcy Bench: How Are the ‘Units’ (28 U.S.C. § 151) Faring?, Boston College Law Review, December 2005; Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries, (4 vol.) (as a United States Adviser) The American Law Institute (2003); Chapter 11: Life After Death, The Utilities Project (with Patrick S. Malone); Volume 3, 2003; First Report of the Select Advisory Committee on Business Reorganization (SABRE) (as a SABRE Member) The Business Lawyer, Volume 57, No. 1, November 2001; Chapter 11 Reorganization of Utility Companies, (with Patrick S. Malone) Energy Law Journal, Volume 22, No. 2, 2001; Expanding the Reach of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bankruptcy:  The Legal and Practical Bases for the Use of Mediation and Other Forms of ADR, (with Charles J. Tabb and Ira S. Dizengoff), 46 South Carolina Law Review 1259 (1995); Improving Treatment of Future Claims:  The Unfinished Business Left by the Manville Amendments, (with Peter Zisser) 69 The American Bankruptcy Law Journal 487 (1995); Constitutional Limitations on the Discharge of Future Claims in Bankruptcy, (with Jamie Andra Gavrin) 44 South Carolina Law Review 745 (1993); Authors’ Rights and Bankruptcy:  A Roundtable Discussion, (Irwin Karp, chair) 14 Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts 189 (1990); In re Frenville:  A Critique by the National Bankruptcy Conference’s Committee on Claims and Distributions, (with Annette W. Jarvis), 42 The Business Lawyer 697 (1987).

Mr. Mabey is admitted in NY and UT only.