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Partner
Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights Practice
Richmond
(804) 788-8674 Phone
(804) 788-8218 Fax
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Bankruptcy,
Restructuring &
Creditors' Rights
Complex Consumer and
Financial Services
Litigation
Corporate
Restructuring and
Insolvency
Litigation
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Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights Practice Group. Litigation practice focuses on bankruptcy and creditors' rights, loan workouts, lender liability, contract disputes, landlord-tenant disputes and other commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels, and advice to commercial, consumer and mortgage lenders.
Relevant Experience 
Significant trial and motions experience in Bankruptcy and District Courts throughout the eastern United States. Represented numerous secured and unsecured creditors, directors, bondholders, trustees and equity interests in Chapter 11 reorganizations, restructurings and workouts. Served as lead debtor's counsel in corporate Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases. Regularly represent corporations in defense of preference claims, turnover actions, fraudulent conveyance and transfer claims, and other bankruptcy and insolvency disputes. Handled defense of numerous consumer claims for national finance companies, banks and mortgage lenders. Handled defense of federal class actions against mortgage and consumer lenders on bankruptcy and RESPA claims. Represented insurance guaranty associations in numerous insurance company insolvencies. Successfully represented manufacturers and transportation companies in significant coverage disputes with insurers. Regularly advise Fortune 500 companies on bankruptcy-related issues involved in the structuring of corporate acquisitions, loans and other transactions. Substantial experience in attachment, detinue, replevin, injunction, seizure and other aggressive creditor actions.
Background
- Law Clerk, Hon. Richard H. Poff, Virginia Supreme Court, 1987–88
Membership
- Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy (Class of 2009)
- Planning Committee, Mid-Atlantic Institute on Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, American and Virginia Bar Associations
- Board of Directors, Vice President, Past Young Lawyers Chair, Richmond Bar Association
- Board of Directors, Greater Richmond Bar Foundation
- Past member, Board of Governors, Bankruptcy Section, Virginia State Bar
- Admitted to practice: Virginia Supreme Court, Third, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
Awards and Professional Recognition
- Listed among "Virginia's Legal Elite" for Bankruptcy and for Civil Litigation, Virginia Business Magazine
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
- Named a "Virginia Super Lawyer" for Business Litigation, Richmond Magazine
Education - J.D., Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 44, 1987
- B.A., Syracuse University, 1984
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Tyler Brown
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