Creditor's Rights & Bankruptcy Attorneys In Nashville, TN

Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Lawyers

Thompson Burton's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights law firm is full service, meaning that we assist clients in all manners of insolvency proceedings. Our attorneys specialize in bankruptcy, receiverships, commercial loan workouts, creditors' rights, Ponzi schemes, and complex commercial litigation, with the ability to represent parties on all sides of a dispute including creditors, debtors, receivers, and trustees. As part of our creditors' rights practice, our bankruptcy attorneys represent financial institutions, corporations, governmental entities, and individuals in complex workouts, bankruptcies, receiverships, state and federal court litigation, and judgment enforcement. Our attorneys are recognized for their ingenuity, experience, and practicality in representing the interests of commercial creditors.

Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Lawyers

Thompson Burton's bankruptcy lawyers also have extensive experience in representing corporate debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chapter 7 bankruptcy, receiverships, and outside of court debt restructuring. Our bankruptcy law firm has the tools to represent every kind of debtor, from a small, single-member LLC to a large, publicly-traded corporation to successfully and efficiently achieve their restructuring goals.

Bankruptcy Attorney Near Me

Our bankruptcy lawyers are frequently retained to represent court-appointed bankruptcy trustees and receivers in evaluating and pursuing litigation assets in state court, federal court, and bankruptcy court. Thompson Burton is recognized as one of the leading insolvency litigation law firms in the Mid-South region due to the breadth of its experience and its success in such litigation. Thompson Burton's multi-faceted approach to its insolvency practice enables its attorneys to examine complex legal problems from all angles and to craft legal strategies and solutions that are most effective and efficient for its clients. Contact our bankruptcy law center to learn how we can serve you.

Anonymity of SWAP Traders In the Post-Meltdown Age

By Ronn Steen, November 14 2014

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Let’s face it. Swaps are complicated. Few outside the financial industry fully understand them but they are an integral part of the financial and investment industry. The basic definition of a swap is “the exchange of one set of cash flows for another.” It is a future commodity, in which one party seeks to derive a benefit from an existing interest rate in a loan deal based upon what the interest rate may be on a future date. If the party is correct, it is deemed to be “in the money” and obtains a cash benefit. If incorrect, then the party will not, and be deemed to be “out of the money.” Swaps are traded in the marketplace, though not on any well-known exchange, and oversight of the swaps marketplace falls to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”). When the financial markets melted down, Congress passed several laws in an […]

Love and Marriage: The Two Shall Become One…Except When Applying for Credit.

By Ronn Steen, November 5 2014

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It is common practice for lenders to require personal guaranties as part of the credit and collateral package when making a loan. Oftentimes, more than one guarantor is needed to “shore up” the creditworthiness of the credit applicant. Usually, multiple guarantors are not an issue except when one of the guarantors is a spouse of the applicant. More than ever, lenders need to exercise caution when seeking the guaranty from the spouse of an applicant. In 1974, Congress enacted the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) in an effort to “eradicate credit discrimination waged against women, especially married women whom creditors traditionally refused to consider for individual credit.” Mays v. Buckeye Rural Elec. Coop., 277 F.3d 873, 876 (6th Cir. 2002). The ECOA’s implementing regulation is known as “Regulation B,” and it aims “‘to promote the availability of credit to all creditworthy applicants without regard to … sex [or] marital status [and other […]

Jesus, Lazarus and Judgment Liens: Is it possible to resurrect an expired judgment lien?

By Ronn Steen, May 29 2014

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In the Gospel of John, we read about the story of Jesus and Lazarus. Jesus and Lazarus were very close friends but Lazarus became sick and died. After being in the grave for four days, Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave. John 11: 1-44. It is a wonderful story of the love of two friends; of power and hope. Jesus’ actions were miraculous, and there was cause of great celebration since what was once dead was alive again. Unfortunately, there is no such miracle that can resurrect an expired judgment lien. Once a judgment lien has expired, it must be recreated. The life of judgment lien is tied directly to the life of the judgment itself. Without a judgment, a judgment lien does not exist. It is well-settled that a judgment lasts only ten (10) years from the date it was first issued. Judgments can be extended or renewed for […]

Battle Royale: Piercing and Reverse Piercing of the Corporate Veil

By Ronn Steen, May 20 2014

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Modern day business can be complicated. Most business is conducted through corporate entities formed to provide a shield to the individuals “behind-the-scenes.” It is not uncommon to have more than one corporate entity created to shield the ultimate party. These corporate entities serve much the same way as the great curtain in “The Wizard of Oz”; they provide a “wall” or “veil” behind which the individuals can safely transact business while appearing to be much larger or greater than they would be without such protection. The difficulty arises when assets are hidden in the corporate structure thus resulting in a shield for an individual debtor against a creditor’s collection efforts. Jurisprudence has long recognized this potential problem, and case law exists to unwind this Gordian knot particularly when closely-held corporations are involved. These remedies are commonly known as “piercing the corporate veil.” To be successful, a creditor would need to prove […]

Creditor’s Bill to Subject: Little Used Remedy for Collections When the Chain is Broken

By Ronn Steen, May 12 2014

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Oftentimes a judgment creditor seems to reach the limits of available collection remedies when an execution is returned as “unsatisfied.” In most creditors’ minds, such a return means that there simply aren’t any assets sufficient to apply towards the outstanding judgment. As a result, most will simply wait a period of time before trying again or give up. Like most states, Tennessee has a remedy that permits a creditor to “dig deeper” into a debtor’s assets and financial history. It is commonly called a “creditor’s bill to subject,” and it can be found at Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-4-101. A complaint for a creditor’s bill to subject is an equitable remedy that can only be granted by a court once it is established that a debtor’s property sought to satisfy the judgment cannot be reached by ordinary process, is insufficient or is not subject to levy and sale by execution at […]