REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE ENGAGEMENTS
- Counsel to a debtor that owned an apartment building in DC, achieving a successful sale in the District of Columbia.
- Counsel to a debtor that owned a real estate development project, seeking sale of the property in the District of Maryland, where the court ruled, as a matter of first impression, that Maryland mechanic’s liens are avoidable “statutory liens.”
- Co-Counsel to a multi-billion-dollar upstream oil and gas company in a successful reorganization in the District of Delaware.
- Special Litigation Counsel to the Chapter 7 Trustee to investigate causes of action in the District of Delaware.
- Co-Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors/Liquidating Trustee in a matter involving a multi-billion-dollar retail company in the District of Delaware.
- Co-Counsel to the Chapter 7 Trustee in a matter involving a dry cleaning business in the District of Delaware.
- Creditors Committee counsel in a matter involving a lumber/transportation company in the District of Maryland.
- Counsel to a debtor car dealership in the District of Maryland.
REPRESENTATIVE CREDITOR / PARTY-IN-INTEREST ENGAGEMENTS
- Outside creditors’ rights counsel to a Fortune 500 publicly traded CPG company, assisting with risk management, claim maximization, ongoing business relations, asset protection, and litigation in numerous bankruptcy cases across the country.
- Outside creditors’ rights counsel to a Fortune 1000 publicly traded company with aerospace and industrial, defense and electronics, and Naval and power segments, assisting with risk management, claim maximization, ongoing business relations, and litigation in numerous bankruptcy cases across the country.
- Bankruptcy counsel to an international insurance company, advising on a coverage dispute in mass tort bankruptcy case pending in the District of Delaware.
- Co-Counsel to former shareholders against debtors in a multi-million-dollar litigation in the District of Delaware.
- Outside creditors rights counsel to various transportation/logistics companies in bankruptcy cases across the country.
- Counsel to landlords in various retail Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, seeking various forms of relief and protection.
- Counsel to litigants seeking relief from the automatic stay and related relief.
- Prosecution and defense of hundreds of preference and fraudulent conveyance actions.
Attorney
Profile
Education
- University of Baltimore School of Law, (J.D., cum laude, 2000)
- University of Baltimore (B.A., with honors, 1996)
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Activities
- Turnaround Management Association, Global Board of Trustees and Chesapeake Chapter Board Member
- Strategic Alternatives For and Against Advanced Bankruptcy Institute, 2024 Editor
- Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court
- American Bankruptcy Institute
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