Representative Matters

• Represented sewer bond liquidity provider in Jefferson County’s $3.2 billion Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest Chapter 9 filing in history at the time.
• Lead debtor’s counsel to an agribusiness concern in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring.
• Debtors’ counsel to a 23-entity hospitality group in Chapter 11 reorganization in Delaware Bankruptcy Court.
• Represented for-profit educational institution with over 75 campuses and 20,000 students nationwide in obtaining one of the first, self-imposed “restructuring receiverships” in the country, and further acted as special receivership counsel to the court-appointed receiver, obtaining emergency financing, auctioning and selling a going-concern college, selling $36 Million in accounts receivable, and addressing over $520 million in claims.
• Represented lender in the workout of $103 million defaulted debt secured by senior and junior liens of distressed agribusiness company.
• Represented large trade creditor in negotiations and continued provision of services in In re Westinghouse Electric Co. in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, obtaining full recovery.
• Restructured $300 million of mortgage and mezzanine debt for the owners of two office towers in Oregon.
• Lead bankruptcy counsel to national investment bank in the defense of successor liability and fraudulent transfer claims in excess of $24 million in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
• Counsel to unsecured creditors committee of a bankrupt home healthcare provider in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee, negotiating a joint plan with the Debtor that paid all unsecured creditors in full, with interest.
• Represented purchaser in the $15 million acquisition of a manufacturing business in a Section 363 sale, outbidding the stalking horse purchaser in a highly competitive auction, navigating complicated hurdles, including WARN Act claims and protests by union employees.
• Represented stalking horse purchaser in a $10 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in a Section 363 sale in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
• Lead debtor’s counsel to a historically black, nonprofit college in Alabama in its orderly wind down, teach-out and liquidation, obtaining over $2 million in emergency financing, preserving and liquidating a 50+ ac. campus and recovering disputed funds from the U.S. Department of Education.
• Represented purchaser of multiple grocery stores in In re Southeastern Grocers (Winn Dixie) in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
• Counsel to receiver and Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee in multi-district receivership and bankruptcy proceedings of affiliated skilled nursing facilities in Alabama and Texas with over 330 beds, preserving and liquidating assets and successfully pursuing claims against former owners/operators.
• Lead receivership counsel for national for-profit educational institution in its acquisition of a large, for-profit college system in Missouri state court receivership proceedings.
• Represented Singapore-based Tech Company in the acquisition of intellectual property assets of a U.S. technology company through UCC foreclosure.
• Represented stalking horse purchaser in the acquisition of multiple grocery stores in a Section 363 sale in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
• Represented national financial institution in multiple workouts and lender liability lawsuits involving $50+ Million in variable rate demand notes and derivatives.
• Represented U.S. client in resolving disputes with Indonesian company and Malaysian secured lender over airplanes and aircraft engines located in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.
• Lead insolvency counsel to indenture trustee and bondholders in the workout and litigation of over $25 million in bonds secured by special assessments issued by improvement districts.
• Represented institutional investors and municipality in workouts of multiple distressed tax credit investment projects in Tennessee and Alabama, dealing with EB-5 investments and politically-sensitive issues.
• Represented institutional bondholder in restructuring $7.8 million in defaulted bonds issued by 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Louisiana.

Awards and Honors

• Chambers USA: Leading Practitioner in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2018 – present)
• American Bankruptcy Institute: 2018 Class of “Top 40 Under 40” Emerging Leaders in Insolvency Practice
• Best Lawyers in America©  for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2019-2024), Litigation: Bankruptcy (2018-2024), and Commercial Litigation (2023-2024)
• Mid-South Super Lawyers: "Rising Star" in Bankruptcy: Business (2014-present)

Professional Associations

• Turnaround Management Association, Alabama Chapter, Past-President
• Alabama State Bar Bankruptcy & Commercial Law Section, Past-Chairman
• American Bankruptcy Institute Southeastern Bankruptcy Workshop Advisory Board
• Member, Alabama Law Institute Committee on Uniform Fraudulent/Voidable Transfer Laws
• Member, Alabama Bankruptcy Pro Bono Task Force
• Member, Birmingham Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member, Tennessee Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

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