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Practice Expertise
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Corporate Restructuring
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation
Areas of Practice
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation
- Corporate Restructuring
- Creditors’ Rights
- Distressed Investing
- Financial Services Litigation
- Financial Services Litigaton
- Fraud and Asset Recovery
- Healthcare Restructuring
- Judgment and Arbitration Award Enforcement
- Litigation
- Receivers, Committees, Trustees, and Other ... View More
Profile
Parker Griffin has a diverse practice that covers a broad spectrum of business-oriented skills ranging from litigation to real estate to bankruptcy, with a focus on creditors’ rights. His clients include many types of businesses, including banks, servicers, real estate developers, contractors, landlords, property managers, venture startups, and healthcare owners and operators.
Parker has extensive experience in creditors’ rights, and he previously served as vice-chair and then chair of the Creditors’ Rights Subcommittee for the American Bar Association. He regularly represents all types of creditors in both bankruptcy cases and out-of-court workouts and debt restructurings, much of which involve real estate and other forms of asset-based lending.
Parker is routinely involved in insolvency-related litigation and creditor remedies, including foreclosures, executions, garnishments, charging orders, rent interception, and avoidance actions. Parker has handled many corporate and consumer bankruptcies, including litigating issues relating to cash collateral, Section 363 sales, claims allowance, lien priority, preference and fraudulent transfer actions, stay relief, non-dischargeability, and plan confirmation. He has significant experience in all facets of receiverships, having successfully represented lenders in obtaining the appointment of receivers, receivers themselves, and third-party purchasers seeking to acquire property out of receivership sales.
Parker also has successfully navigated many out-of-court workouts that are able to avoid litigation and bankruptcy with transactional experience in negotiating, drafting and closing loan restructuring agreements, forbearance agreements, note sales, refinancings, capital infusions, and recollateralizations.
In addition to post-closing work, Parker has extensive experience in front-end acquisitions and closings involving commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on retail, medical office buildings, and senior living communities. Additionally, he regularly represents commercial landlords in a broad range of matters, including lease negotiations, unlawful detainer proceedings, ADA compliance, rent collection and tenant bankruptcies.
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2008
Court Admissions
- United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama
- United States District Court, Northern District of Florida
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Alabama
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Alabama
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Alabama
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Florida
- United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
Education
- University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2008, cum laude
- University of Alabama, M.B.A., 2008
- Vanderbilt University, B.S., 2002
Areas of Practice
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation
- Corporate Restructuring
- Creditors’ Rights
- Distressed Investing
- Financial Services Litigation
- Financial Services Litigaton
- Fraud and Asset Recovery
- Healthcare Restructuring
- Judgment and Arbitration Award Enforcement
- Litigation
- Receivers, Committees, Trustees, and Other Fiduciaries
Blogs
Patent 213
Patent law, like most things in life, is subject to change. Changes to patent laws not only impact investment in your existing IP, but directly shape strategies to protect your freedom to operate. The Patent 213 blog provides up-to-date, insightful analysis of the evolution in the written description and enablement requirements of 35 USC 112 and the subject matter eligibility requirements of 35 USC 101. The Patent 213 blog analyzes key decisions from the district courts and the Federal Circuit,...
The Law of Order
Bradley’s The Law of Order blog serves as a general parliamentary procedure resource, providing information about creation and revision of governing documents (constitutions, bylaws, or rules), application of Robert’s Rules of Order and other procedural authorities in a variety of contexts (such as nonprofits, political parties, homeowners associations, unions, churches, trade associations), and leadership of any type of organizational meeting. In an effort to make all things parliamentary more...
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