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Counsel
Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights Practice
Dallas
(214) 468-3359 Phone
(214) 368-3599 Fax
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Bankruptcy,
Restructuring &
Creditors' Rights
Corporate
Restructuring and
Insolvency
Distressed Debt
Trading and
Non-Performing Loan
Single Asset
Trading Portfolio
Purchases
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Practice focuses on restructuring, bankruptcy and related litigation.
Relevant Experience 
- Represents parties in distressed financial situations, including corporate boards, debtors, creditors, DIP lenders, committees, equity holders, trustees, examiners, financial advisors, liquidators, and purchasers of assets.
- Litigates directors' and officers' fiduciary duty and subordination claims, discharge and dischargeability cases, preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, franchise disputes and various types of fraud claims.
- Represented creditor committees and debtors involved in a myriad of industries, including manufacturing, financial services, hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric institutions, physician management companies, restaurants, distribution businesses, technology companies, airlines and telecoms.
- Represents large creditors, such as key suppliers in the construction, retail and telecom industries.
Membership
Member, Texas Bar Association Member, Dallas Bar Association Research Fellow, The Center for American & International Law Member, American Bankruptcy Institute Member, Turnaround Management Association Member, International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Congress Member, Women's Finance Exchange Member, Dallas Bar Foundation Master of the Inn - American Inns of Court - John C. Ford Bankruptcy Inn, 2004-2006 President's Council, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Vice President and Board of Directors, Sammons Center for the Arts Admitted to practice: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas; Licensed to practice in Texas
Awards and Professional Recognition
Education - J.D., George Washington University Law School, 1987
- B.A., University of Charleston, magna cum laude, 1983
- Sophia University, Tokyo, 1982
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Michelle Mendez
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