For the past 35 years, Greg has focused his practice on searching for pragmatic solutions to complex problems in the context of restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy. He represents borrowers, debtors, secured creditors, trade creditors, contract counterparties, unsecured creditors’ committees, equity holders, and trustees on all sides of insolvency situations, with an emphasis on representing creditors of all types. Although Greg’s practice is industry agnostic, adapting to fluctuations in the business cycle, his matters often occur within the retail and consumer products, real estate, and consumer finance industries.

In addition to his bankruptcy practice, Greg advises financial services clients on consumer protection compliance and litigation. With the advance of technology resulting in new payment methods, new business platforms, and new means of conducting business with consumers, Greg provides guidance to financial institutions as they navigate the legal issues relating to the developing payment options.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, The University of Texas, with honors, Order of the Coif, Chancellor at Large, 1988

BBA, Southern Methodist University, cum laude, 1986

• Represented the agent for a secured creditor group in an out-of-court workout of a multi-state convenience store chain.
• Represented pre-petition secured lender and debtor in possession lender in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Central District of California of importer and distributor of craft products.
• Represented the secured creditor in an out-of-court workout of a $375 Million loan secured by a portfolio of commercial real estate.
• Represented subprime lender in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the District of Delaware and successfully confirmed a plan of liquidation that resulted in creditors receiving near payment in full.
• Represented senior secured lender in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Middle District of Tennessee of non-profit manufacturer of food stuffs sold to the federal government.
• Represented senior secured lender in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Eastern District of Texas of food processing and storage company.
• Represented successor first lien agent and collateral trustee of a $480 million credit faculty in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of textile manufacturer and retailer filed in the Southern District of new York. Representation has included activities relating to the sale of substantially all the assets in the bankruptcy court, related appeals to the district court and court appeals and proceedings in the Delaware Chancery Court.
• Represented lender in $100 million debtor in possession loan in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of an international hotel conglomerate filed in the District of New Jersey.
• Represented pre-petition and debtor in possession lender in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of a group of 63 companies operating a member travel service filed in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
• Represented holders of enhanced equipment trust certificates in the bankruptcy cases of numerous airlines.
• Represented primary vendor in the bankruptcy cases of numerous convenience store chains.
• Represented securitization trusts in the bankruptcy cases of numerous hospitality bankruptcy cases.
• Represented primary secured lender in numerous single asset real estate bankruptcy cases.
• Representing secured and unsecured creditors, including banks, securitized trusts, and trade creditors in Chapter 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcy proceedings.
• Representing holders of intellectual property rights in Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
• Structured financial transaction areas - assisted numerous borrowers, including REIT’s, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, etc. and lenders with the documentation of securitized transactions.

• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Contributing Editor, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Dallas Bar Association

• 2014 Top 100 Turnaround & Restructuring Atlas Award Winner - Consumer Goods Turnaround of the Year
• 2013 Section 363 Sale of the Year ($100 million to $1 billion) award by the M&A Advisors at its 8th Annual Turnaround Awards
• Inducted into the Rossville High School Hall of Fame
• Recipient of Distinguished Board Service Award from Promise House, Inc.
• Recipient of Diane Payne Shaw Memorial Volunteer Award from Promise Houses, Inc.

• Pre-Petition Waivers of the Automatic Stay: Still No Certainty as to Their Enforceability, ABI Journal
• Fifth Circuit Protects Secured Creditor, Banking News
• Pre-Petition Waivers of the Automatic Stay: Lender Satisfaction Not Guaranteed, Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law & Practice
• CFPB In-House Judges May Be Next to Come Under Scrutiny, Law360
• Fifth Circuit Holds Difficult Economic Circumstances Insufficient To Claim Duress; Lenders Entitled To Threaten To Exercise Contractual Rights As Negotiating Leverage, The Banking Law Journal
• What Purdue Ch. 11 Means For Future Of Third-Party Releases, Law360
• Where Are We Now: A Look at the EFTA’s Prohibition of Compulsory Payments of Loans by Electronic Fund Transfers, The Banking Law Journal
• No Discharge for Failure to Make Percentage Distributions to Unsecureds, ABI Journal
• Silence as Deemed Consent to Voluntary Third-Party Releases in a Chapter 11 Plan, ABI Journal
• How to Compute 'New Value' in Light of Post-Petition Critical Vendor and Section 503(b)(9) Payments, Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• No Taxation With Confirmation, American Bankruptcy Institute Real Estate Committee Newsletter
• Should a Secured Creditor’s Silence be Deemed Acceptance of a Chapter 13 Plan? ABI Journal
• The Best Interest of Creditors Test, And Why All Those Math Classes Weren't a Total Waste After All, 27 ABI Journal 32
• Who Has the Right to Prosecute a Securitized Mortgage in Bankruptcy Court? 28 ABI Journal 16
• How Choice Act Would Change Agency Rule-Making Authority, Law360
• Courts Begin Interpreting New Due Diligence Requirements For Trustees Before Filing Preference Actions, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• Failed LBOs, Recovering Payments To Shareholders, Law360
• 2 Takeaways From 3rd Circ.'s J&J Bankruptcy Ruling, Law360
• 2nd Circ. Favors Appellees Under Equitable Mootness, Law360
• In a Bankruptcy Sale Free and Clear of Liens, Claims, and Interests, the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Adopts an Expansive Definition of the Term “Interest,” Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• When Contracts Spontaneously Multiply; How To Deal With Bifurcation and Integration Issues Under § 365, ABI Journal
• The CFPB Issues Rule Prohibiting Certain Arbitration Clauses, Payments Journal
• Eleventh Circuit Holds Payment of Section 503(b)(9) Administrative Expense Claims Do Not Reduce Subsequent New Value Preference Defense, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• Fifth Circuit Requires More than Notice to Extinguish Lien Through Plan Confirmation, Texas Law Book
• Clearing a Path for FinTechs to Navigate Through the State Licensing, PaymentsJournal
• No Sole Method in Determining Cramdown Interest Rate in Chapter 11, The Texas Lawbook
• How Problem Easements Can Limit Sale Rights, ABI Journal
• Tenth and Eleventh Circuits Address Dismissal as Moot Under 11 U.S.C § 363(m) of Appeals Relating to Asset Sales, Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• Tenth Circuit Affirms Order Allowing Debtor to Use Oversecured Creditor’s Cash Collateral to Pay Professionals, The Banking Law Journal
• Second Circuit Upholds the Designation of Claim Purchaser's Vote on DBSD Plan, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• Eighth Circuit Affirms that Perpetual Royalty–Free Trademark License Was an Executory Contract, Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal
• Is the 5th Circuit Eyeing a Knockout Blow to Pro-Snax? The Texas Lawbook
• Analysis: How New Bankruptcy Rules Will Impact Financial Institutions, Texas Lawbook
• Eighth Circuit, In Rehearing En Banc, Reverses Earlier Decision that Perpetual Royalty-Free Trademark License Was An Executory Contract, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• Community Chest: Does the Co-Debtor Stay Extend to Debts Incurred Solely by the Nondebtor Spouse?, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Reform of the CFPB Through the Financial Choice Act, PaymentsJournal
• Foreseeable Harm Is Not Enough: Supreme Court Rejects Eleventh Circuit’s Relaxed Interpretation of Proximate Cause for Lending Discrimination Claims, Banking Law Journal
• Circuit Split Developing Over Modification of Mortgages on Mixed-Use Properties, Banking Law Journal