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Alex S. Anderson
Associate

Plano

972.324.0289

Phillip J. (Phil) Ashfield
Partner

Minneapolis

612.268.7072

Mark A. Bogdanowicz
Partner

Nashville, Kansas City

615.687.2765

Alex Anderson focuses on assisting clients with bankruptcy and restructuring matters within the firm’s Banking and Financial Services practice group, ensuring adherence to legal principles and precedents amid an evolving industry.

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Phil Ashfield represents equipment financing and leasing companies, unsecured creditor committees, corporate debtors, trustees, banks, and other entities in bankruptcies, workouts, receiverships, and other commercial disputes, maximizing recoveries and minimizing risks both in and out of the courtroom so clients can maintain a focus on improving and growing operations.

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With nearly 20 years of experience in representing creditors from coast to coast, Mark Bogdanowicz helps his clients navigate the costs and uncertainty of doing business with companies and individuals faced with financial distress.

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Seth A. Brimley
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5449

Andrea Chase
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8279

Matthew Cox
Of Counsel

Salt Lake City

801.322.9182

Seth Brimley’s practice focuses on collaborative client service to develop and implement strategies that achieve successful outcomes before mediators, arbitration panels, judges, and juries. This includes the ability to utilize all forms of traditional and alternative dispute resolution in an effort to achieve business goals and objectives at the end of the process. In addition, Seth has experience handling complex bankruptcy and restructuring matters along with associated litigation.

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Andrea Chase represents secured and unsecured creditors and bankruptcy trustees in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings such as receiverships and foreclosure proceedings, out of court workouts and restructurings, and other related insolvency matters.

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Matthew Cox represents financial institutions and other lenders in efforts to protect their collateral and loan rights in federal and state courts, including bankruptcy courts. Matt focuses on defending these lenders and other clients against avoidance, preference, and fraudulent transfer claims made by trustees and receivers. He also assists creditors in obtaining relief from the bankruptcy automatic stay and in prosecuting objections to confirmation.

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Kristen M. (Kris) Dekker
Partner

Kansas City, Overland Park, Phoenix

816.292.8130

Lindsay Doman
Associate

Minneapolis

612.268.7067

Kristen Evans
Associate

Kansas City

816.292.8129

Kris Dekker assists banks, financial institutions, and other lenders of varying sizes close their transactions efficiently. He understands that timely execution is critical to a lender’s ability to compete in its marketplace.

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Lindsay Doman is a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. Her practice focuses on bankruptcy. She represents creditors, receivers, trustees, and others in bankruptcy, restructuring, and non-bankruptcy insolvency matters.

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Kristen Evans advises clients on bankruptcy and other related financial matters, analyzing complex legal issues within an evolving regulatory landscape. Her experience navigating the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure allows her to thoughtfully strategize optimal, cost-effective solutions that comply with all applicable federal and state rules and regulations.

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Zachary (Zach) Fairlie
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8223

Elizabeth Fast
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8861

Scott J. Goldstein
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8218

Zach represents clients in complex corporate reorganizations and distressed asset sales in court-supervised processes and out-of-court restructurings – principally those involving balance sheet, environmental, labor, and mass tort litigation issues throughout a wide variety of industries, including agriculture, alternative investments, construction, energy, health care, hospitality, manufacturing, telecommunications, and transportation.

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Elizabeth Fast is a partner at Spencer Fane in the Banking and Financial Services group. For more than 20 years, she has been counseling banks, holding companies and other financial institutions on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters.

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Scott Goldstein’s practice concentrates in the areas of bankruptcy and reorganization for businesses, representation of secured creditors and creditors’ committees in workouts and bankruptcies, and bond default situations both in federal and state court.

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Richard H. (Rick) Herold
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5453

Jacob Hollars
Partner

Denver

303.839.3707

McKay Holley
Associate

Las Vegas

702.851.7513

Rick Herold has more than 30 years of experience as a litigator and trial attorney, excelling in efficiently resolving complex commercial disputes across a range of industries including financial services, health care, real estate, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and securities. He is known for his creative, constructive, and practical approach to problem-solving for banks, shareholders, employers and property owners, often resulting in expedited proceedings to appoint a receiver, enjoin misconduct, address real property or shareholder rights, or recover confidential information or trade secrets removed from the workplace.

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Jacob Hollars is an appellate and trial lawyer specializing in real estate, land use, special district, and commercial matters in Colorado and across the nation.

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McKay Holley is a dedicated business attorney representing creditors, receivers, trustees, and other clients in bankruptcy, restructuring, and non-bankruptcy insolvency matters. He has a strong background in commercial litigation, adeptly handling legal matters related to business transactions, contracts, and commercial disputes.

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Richard F. Holley
Of Counsel

Las Vegas

702.851.6506

Tara Holterhaus
Partner

Omaha

402.501.6770

Eric L. Johnson
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8267

Richard Holley helps clients throughout Nevada and elsewhere in the U.S. with difficult bankruptcy and related commercial litigation matters. His primary focus is bringing value to the clients he serves through open communication, collaboration, and transparency while reducing frustrations. These attributes, along with a keen ability to identify colleagues with precisely the right skill sets for each unique dispute, are the foundation of the enduring and successful relationships Richard has with his clients.

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Tara is a full-service litigation attorney who focuses primarily on banking and financial services litigation, commercial litigation, real estate litigation, and bankruptcy litigation. She represents a variety of clients, including state and nationally chartered banks, non-bank lenders, loan servicers, and debt collectors.

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Eric Johnson, a partner at Spencer Fane, is the co-practice group leader for the Banking and Financial Services Group and practice group leader for the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Group.

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Camber M. Jones
Of Counsel

Springfield

417.888.1068

Jason Kathman
Partner

Plano, Dallas

972.324.0370

Adam M. LaBoda
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8361

Camber Jones is a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services Group. Camber has experience representing debtors and creditors in bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings in multiple jurisdictions, including, initiating and defending adversary proceedings, investigating and conducting large-scale claims reconciliations, negotiating settlements, and negotiating, drafting, and reviewing commercial contracts.

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Jason Kathman represents clients in bankruptcy proceedings and litigation, helping them win favorable outcomes so they can concentrate on running their businesses. He works with clients in a wide variety of industries, with a focus in hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant, and oil and gas industries.

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Adam concentrates his practice in the areas of transactional and regulatory banking matters, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending, workouts, bankruptcy, and corporate trust.

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James (Jim) Lodoen
Partner

Minneapolis

612.268.7039

Patrick McAndrews
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8376

David Miller
Partner

Denver

303.592.8332

Jim Lodoen helps businesses and entrepreneurs prepare for and resolve financial challenges whether arising from changing market conditions, excess leverage, operational issues, or unanticipated events. His 35 years of experience dealing with all aspects of financial distress informs his counsel to clients as they consider alternatives to preserve and maximize value, return to profitability, and to restructure the business enterprise. Jim also helps secured lenders, subordinated lenders, private equity firms, and portfolio companies with the structuring and restructuring of indebtedness and the monetizing of assets.

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Patrick McAndrews helps small and medium size businesses resolve complex legal disputes quickly and efficiently so that the client can get back to focusing on running a successful business. Whether it’s a contractual dispute with vendor, an issue with a competitor, or a statutory compliance concern, Patrick uses his experience to negotiate advantageous outcomes for his clients.

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David M. Miller works closely with individuals and companies, providing guidance and counsel in all aspects of bankruptcy law and commercial litigation. All clients, both debtors and creditors, benefit from David’s extensive knowledge and experience in bankruptcy and related matters.

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Heather M. Morris
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8387

Rodney H. (Rod) Nichols
Partner

Springfield

417.888.1023

Nathan A. (Nate) Orr
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8872

Heather Morris is a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. She concentrates her practice in the areas of transactional and regulatory banking matters, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending, workouts, bankruptcy, and corporate trust.

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Rodney Nichols is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group and assists lenders with structuring, documenting, and enforcing complex commercial and real estate loans of all types. With more than 25 years of experience, Rodney is able to help lenders and businesses alike navigate the intricate nature of commercial and real estate financing, including debt restructuring, workouts, and reorganizations both inside and outside of bankruptcy.

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Businesses face issues that do not exist within the rigid legal silos present in most law firms. Rather, those issues are almost certain to require a collaborative approach across two or more legal disciplines. But the current law firm model and rate structure restrict and make financially infeasible the ability to deliver that approach effectively to business clients. Recognizing this systemic inefficiency, Nate Orr created a model where he serves as fractional general counsel for his clients, managing their legal matters across all the firm’s practice areas.

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Philip A. Pearlman
Of Counsel

Denver

303.839.3855

Eric Peterson
Of Counsel

St. Louis

314.333.3937

David Pinkston
Of Counsel

Salt Lake City

801.322.9180

Phil Pearlman helps creditors, committees, bankruptcy trustees, and others protect their interests and achieve their key objectives and goals in bankruptcy cases.

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Eric Peterson works in the commercial bankruptcy and receivership fields, including litigation related to commercial financial distress. He represents investors, financial institutions, business owners, debtor’s, creditor committees, receivers, bankruptcy trustees and other fiduciaries, and large and small companies in maximizing the value of business assets, achieving operational turnarounds, and going concern sales, among other things. He lead the effort to create the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act and is a founder and president of the national Commercial Receivers Association. Eric has also served as co-chair of the Missouri Bankruptcy Debtor and Creditor Rights Committee of the Missouri Bar and chair of the Subcommittee on Commercial Receivership. He is a co-author of the Manual and Practitioners Guidebook for the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act, which is published by the Missouri Bar.

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David uses creativity and decades of experience with the tools under state and bankruptcy law to bring resolution to legal problems and burdens, realize on assets, and help clients get back to growing their business and experiencing greater peace in their lives. Contract disputes and defaults are an unfortunate reality of doing business. For every client, such defaults by the other party are an obstacle to growth, at a minimum. With others, particularly small businesses, such defaults can be disastrous, creating constant stress and anxiety for the business owners.

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Courtney Davis Powell
Of Counsel

Oklahoma City

405.844.9900

Gerrit Pronske
Partner

Plano, Dallas

214.762.1100

Peter L. Riggs
Partner

Kansas City, Phoenix

816.292.8149

Courtney Davis Powell focuses on litigation. She helps clients resolve disputes so that they may focus their energies on other matters. She is skilled at uncovering the issues and facts in a case, developing a strategic plan, and crafting a story to achieve the desired results. Her practice is wide ranging, including business litigation, employment law, and constitutional law.

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Gerrit Pronske assists in cutting costs while utilizing the rules of the bankruptcy code to achieve efficient and successful outcomes related to the reorganization process, always with his clients’ goals top-of-mind. He has built strong experience in all areas of bankruptcy, business law, commercial litigation, and real estate, additionally serving as a trained mediator specializing in cases involving bankruptcy, insolvency, and commercial disputes.

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Peter Riggs is an experienced litigator and regulatory attorney that advises clients across the financial services industry in litigation, government and internal investigations, and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters.

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Ian M. Rubenstrunk
Of Counsel

Minneapolis

612.268.7062

Scot J. Seabaugh
Partner

St. Louis

314.333.3930

Misty A. Segura
Of Counsel

Houston

713.212.2643

Ian Rubenstrunk represents a wide array of clients including banks, credit unions, non-traditional lenders, private equity, equipment financers, receivers, landlords, and asset buyers in financial services matters. His extensive experience in financial services is focused on all sides of distressed transactions and turnaround matters, with specific experience in commercial foreclosures, receiverships, bankruptcies, out of court workouts, and litigation involving financial transactions.

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Scot is a partner in the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. He has over 30 years of experience in advising banks, lenders, and borrowers regarding commercial loans as well as navigating complex regulatory issues his bank and lender clients face in today’s economy. Scot helps his clients stay focused on getting the transaction closed so they can move forward to realize their goals.

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Misty Segura assists clients in a variety of industries with all aspects of bankruptcy matters and enforcement of creditors’ rights. Her work in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases has involved representing secured creditors (including lenders as well as mechanic and materialmen lienholders), trustees, landlords, and general unsecured creditors.

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Eric M. Van Horn
Partner

Dallas

214.459.5895

John G. Willard
Partner

St. Louis

314.746.0976

James L. (Jim) Wooll
Partner

Denver

303.592.8361

Eric M. Van Horn assists clients nationwide with all aspects of bankruptcy, reorganizations, negotiations, collection actions, multi-jurisdictional insolvencies, and corporate liquidations. His work in complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases has involved representing committees of unsecured creditors and investors, debtors, trustees, secured lenders, landlords, and general unsecured creditors, including critical vendors and suppliers. He also defends clients against bankruptcy preference and fraudulent transfer (clawback) lawsuits, and assists clients in bidding on and acquiring assets out of bankruptcy cases. His specific industry experience includes clients in oil and gas, manufacturing, health care, restaurant, manufacturing, retail, and technology industries.

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John Willard advises clients in complex financial transactions and corporate restructurings, carefully tailoring his diverse legal acumen to meet unique business objectives. His professional background in entertainment, finance, business, and international transactions has made him a versatile counselor for a wide array of clients and organizations, from the world’s largest neurosurgical society to the historical trust of a former U.S. President.

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When a dispute arises that affects your business or its future, having a trial lawyer like James L. Wooll on your team is crucial. Jim has extensive experience – in trials with juries and with appellate courts, as well as mediation and arbitration – helping clients head off potential lawsuits when possible and aggressively litigating them when they cannot.

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