Focus Areas
- Representation of lender in successful workout and payment of $54.7 million senior mortgage loan secured by 532-unit multifamily project in Indiana.
- Representation of senior secured creditor in UCC Article 9 sale of heavy construction equipment.
- Representation of senior secured mortgage lender in contested foreclosure, allowing for transfer of 407-unit apartment complex through foreclosure auction.
- Representation of stalking horse bidder in contested chapter 11 proceeding involving various franchisees in hospitality industry, resulting in client’s receipt of substantial bid protections in section 363 auction process.
- Representation of lender in successful workout and payment of $31.25 million senior mortgage loan secured by 289-unit multifamily project in Indiana.
- Representation of judgment creditors in exercising post-judgment remedies including garnishments, executions and judgment-debtor examinations.
- Representation of lender in successful workout and payment of $8 million senior loan secured by aircraft collateral.
- Representation of commercial defendant in UCC Article 2 breach of contract action, obtaining a defense verdict at bench trial; drafted pleadings and conducted several direct and cross-examinations.
- Representation of senior secured lender in documentation and negotiation of amendments to loan documents and payoff in full of loan facility exceeding $12.8 million.
- Representation of lender in successful workout and payment of senior construction loan and permanent loan secured by 64-unit multifamily project in Ohio.
- Representation of chapter 7 trustee in prosecution of preferential transfer claims, fraudulent transfer claims, and other contested matters and adversary proceedings.
- Representation of leading specialty property and casualty insurance company in various contested chapter 11 proceedings, resulting in payment of secured claims, general unsecured claims, and administrative claims.
- Representation of senior secured lender in documentation and negotiation of amendments to loan documents and payoff in full of loan facility exceeding $22.8 million.
- Representation of commercial borrower in successful workout of multi-million-dollar debt.
- Representation of commercial client in defense of various actions involving the assertion of preferential transfer claims, fraudulent transfer claims, and lender liability claims.
- Representation of secured and unsecured creditors in chapter 7 and chapter 11 proceedings in the assertion of claims, obtaining relief from the automatic stay, addressing cash collateral and debtor-in-possession financing issues, and protecting rights in the plan confirmation process.
- Representation of contract counterparties in protecting interests in executory contracts in chapter 11 proceedings.
- Representation of defendants in actions involving preference and fraudulent transfer claims.
- “Sixth Circuit Concurrence Questions Bankruptcy Courts’ Debt Recharacterization Power,” Thompson Hine Business Restructuring Update, April 2026
- Co-author, “Sixth Circuit Holds that ‘Chargeback Debt’ Under Merchant Agreement Accrues at Time of Initial Transaction, Not at Time of Chargeback,” 22 ABI Business Reorganization Committee Newsletter, no. 2, December 2023
- “Chapter 7 Trustee Who Does Not Object to “Arguably” Inapplicable Claim of Exemption Does Not Forfeit Right to Later Argue that Exemption Does Not Apply,” 21 ABI Consumer Bankruptcy Committee Newsletter, no. 1, September 2023
- “Sixth Circuit Underscores the Importance of Due Process in § 363(f) Sales,” 18 ABI Asset Sales Committee Newsletter, no. 4, September 2021
- “Section 546(e) Safe Harbor Alive and Well After Tribune,” 19 ABI Business Reorganization Committee Newsletter, no. 1, June 2020
- “Supreme Court Holds that a Final, Appealable Order Results When a Bankruptcy Court ‘Unreservedly’ Grants or Denies Stay Relief,” Commercial Law League of America (CLLA) Bankruptcy Blog, February 7, 2020
- “Sixth Circuit Addresses Debtors’ Claims Regarding Breach of Reaffirmation Agreement,” 17 ABI Consumer Bankruptcy Committee Newsletter, no. 3, December 2019
- Co-author, “Protecting Your Client’s Judgment from Discharge: What Every State Court Litigator Should Know,” Columbus Bar Lawyers Quarterly 24, July 2019
- Co-author, “Client Says ‘Go’, Just Say ‘No’: Ethics and the Automatic Stay,” 38 ABI J. 18, June 2019; reprinted in Best of ABI 2019: The Year in Consumer Bankruptcy Review, Charissa Potts ed., 2019
- “Does Article III Require Putative Unnamed Class Members to Demonstrate Standing?” 5 Lincoln Memorial U.L. Rev. 78, 2017
- “Chesapeake Exploration, LLC v. Buell,” 42 Ohio N.U.L. Rev. 907, 2016
- Consent and Due Process Post Purdue Pharma, William J. O’Neill and Pat E. Morgenstern-Clarren Bankruptcy Institute, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, December 5, 2024
- Case Law Update, Bankruptcy Law Institute, Columbus Bar Association, May 2, 2019
- Case Law Update, Bankruptcy Law Institute, Columbus Bar Association, May 3, 2018
- Selected to the Ohio Rising Stars list, 2026
Professional Associations
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Turnaround Management Association
- William J. O’Neill and Pat E. Morgenstern-Clarren Bankruptcy Institute, Co-Chair, December 2023
Community Activities
- Stewart’s Caring Place: Cancer Wellness Center, Board Member
Education
- Ohio Northern University College of Law, J.D., 2017,
cum laude
- University of Akron, B.A., 2014,
cum laude, in Philosophy
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Sixth Circuit Concurrence Questions Bankruptcy Courts’ Debt Recharacterization Power,
Business Restructuring Update
, April 23, 2026