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Practice Areas
Sophisticated Debtor-Creditor Litigation and Business Litigation in State and Federal Courts
Real Estate Law and Finance
Nonbankruptcy Workouts and Negotiations
Receiverships and Injunctive Proceedings
Education / Honors
B.A., Arizona State University, Liberal Arts
Selected, Southwest Super Lawyers, Bankruptcy & Creditor/ Debtor Rights; Business Litigation
Selected, Arizona’s Finest Lawyers
Ranked AV® PreeminentTM 5.0 out of 5* in Martindale Hubbell
Appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Board, 2014-2017
*AV® PreeminentTM BV® DistinguishedTM is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.
Professional Associations
American Bar Association
State Bar of Arizona
State Bar of New Mexico
Maricopa County Bar Association
Court Admissions
New Mexico
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the District of Arizona
United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
Representative Engagements
Motions to compel chapter 11 debtors in possession to assume or reject executory equipment leases and motions to lift stay to enforce equipment lessor rights
Receivership and injunctive proceedings in Arizona state court to enforce assignments of rents for the benefit of commercial lenders during the pendency of nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings by way of contractual powers of sale
Prosecution of lender actions against guarantors in situations where the borrowers have sought chapter 11 relief
Bankruptcy due diligence counsel to the purchaser of the single largest package of secured real estate loans and joint venture interests purchased from the RTC which involved significant bankruptcy issues due to multiple borrower and coventurer chapter 11 proceedings
Representation of the secured creditor in the UCC sale of a grocery store chain with seventy (70) operating stores which was consummated by a credit bid in excess of $144,000,000 and assumption of ownership and operation of the grocery store chain by a special purpose entity created for that purpose