Bio

I am a partner located in the Nashville, Tennessee office of Burr & Forman LLP and I am a member of the firm’s Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy service group, along with the firm’s health care practice group. My practice focuses on out-of-court workouts and distressed transactions, bankruptcy, financially distressed businesses and loans, complex commercial litigation, landlord-tenant disputes, creditors’ rights matters, and other related insolvency issues. I have a depth of experience in solving problems throughout a multitude of industries, including health care, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing, and financial services. In representing clients, and in addition to providing legal advice, I help clients find, create, and salvage value even in the most difficult of circumstances. I assist clients in developing strategy and coming up with creative solutions and tactics to accomplish their end goals. I am routinely engaged by banks, financial institutions, secured and unsecured lenders, trade creditors, and secondary debt purchasers to assist them through the complex legal and regulatory landscapes. I am also hired by commercial landlords to represent them with distressed leases, bankrupt tenants, and complex eviction matters. In addition to the above, I am routinely engaged by health care companies and health care REITs to advise them with respect to financially distressed situations. In representing clients, I often: restructure troubled credit facilities and businesses; assist with the buying and selling of distressed assets, businesses, and commercial paper; structure distressed mergers and acquisitions; and represent clients in bankruptcy cases across the country, as well as debtor-creditor litigation in both state and federal courts. I am often engaged to advise and defend clients with respect to lender-liability lawsuits, fraud-related investigations and litigation, preference actions, and fraudulent transfer lawsuits. Representative engagements: -Represented lead bank in the turnaround and sale of several multi-state ambulatory surgery centers. -Represented stalking horse bidder in the bankruptcy sale of a multi-million dollar mental health facility. -Represented the senior secured lender with respect to a troubled health care facility. -Represented a secured lender in repackaging a multi-million dollar credit facility, preventing the borrower from filing bankruptcy. -Represented a commercial landlord in a complex shopping center tenant bankruptcy. -Repackaged the lease facility of a multi-state senior care facility.