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Dealing With Financial Distress in the Oil & Gas Industry Biographies updated 1/4/2010 CHARLES A. BECKHAM, Jr. is with the firm of Haynes & Boone L.L.P. in Houston and has more than twenty-five years experience helping a broad spectrum of clients with bankruptcy and insolvency problems. He has worked on a variety of transactions and represented secured lenders, unsecured creditors, debtors and trustees in a variety of industries including numerous oil and gas, power and energy related bankruptcies. He has also represented numerous debtors and creditors with cross-border bankruptcy and insolvency problems in Mexico. Mr. Beckham is recognized by Chambers USA as one of the leading practitioners in Texas for bankruptcy, 2005-2009, and as one of the Best Lawyers in America - Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights (Woodward/White, Inc., 2010). He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 10 years. He has also been recognized as a Top 100 Texas Super Lawyer and Top 100 Houston Super Lawyer - Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, 2003-2009. He has lectured in various forums on, among other, derivative exposure and counterparty insolvency and financial market protections under United States Bankruptcy Code Amendments. C. MARK BRANNUM (Co-Chair) currently serves as Senior Legal Counsel and Secretary for St. Mary Land & Exploration Company. Before joining St. Mary in 2007, Mark was a shareholder with the Texas law firm, Winstead P.C. in their Dallas Office. At Winstead, Mark was the Chairperson for the Firm’s Business Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group and was named one of Dallas Best Lawyers by D Magazine and a Texas Super Lawyer. Mark frequently spoke and wrote on issue of insolvency, bankruptcy and business restructuring. Mark received a Juris Doctor with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma and was a member of the Law Review. He is a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation, Mark served as the law clerk for the Honorable Leif M. Clark, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Texas. Mark is currently a member of the Special Institutes Committee for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. JOSEPH M. BROOKER is the Chief Executive Officer of Storm Cat Energy. Joe is a petroleum engineer and lawyer with 25 years of experience in the oil and gas business. He was most recently Vice President and General Counsel of Medicine Bow Energy Corporation, a Denver-based private-equity-backed exploration and production company with operations in the Rockies, Mid-Continent and East Texas. Prior to that, Joe was Vice President of Land and General Counsel of Shenandoah Energy Inc, a Denver-based private-equity-backed exploration and production company with operations in the Uinta and Raton Basins. Mr. Brooker received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College in 1982 and a Juris Doctorate. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1989. RHETT G. CAMPBELL is with the firm of Thompson & Knight LLP in Houston and represents clients in corporate reorganization and business and commercial litigation, with a special emphasis on creditors' rights and bankruptcy matters. He is experienced in all aspects of business bankruptcy and particularly in energy bankruptcies, in which he represents public and private companies, creditors' committees, bondholders, large and small service companies, individual working interest owners and operators, exploration, and production companies. He also serves as an expert witness in oil and gas bankruptcy matters. Mr. Campbell's complex business litigation expertise includes business ownership disputes and fraud, negligence, and multiparty cases. Mr. Campbell is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He was named among the The Best Lawyers in America (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, Commercial Litigation, Derivatives Law, Oil and Gas Law) for 2003-2010. CHARLES CARROLL is a senior managing director in FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and is based in Dallas. Mr. Carroll has provided business restructuring, corporate finance, and lender services. His engagement experience includes business diagnostics and strategic plan development, capital structure review, cash management, corporate overhead review and reduction implementation, debt negotiations and repayment strategies, financial statement analysis, financial projection development, valuation (including liquidation analysis), bankruptcy preparation, and plan of reorganization formation and negotiation. During his tenure, Mr. Carroll has represented the senior lenders of a major international power producer with over $10 billion in short- and long-term debt; advised the lending group of a $1.5 billion textile company that was one of the leading makers of bed and bath products in America; and represented a 75-member lending group of a $3 billion nursing home operator before and during the Chapter 11 process. He has experience in many industries, including construction, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, mining, entertainment and retail. Mr. Carroll’s notable engagements include American Plumbing & Mechanical (AMPAM), Club Corp, Discovery Zone, Encompass Services Corporation, GasMark, Global Power Equipment Group, Integrated Electrical Services (IES), Midcon Offshore, Minorplanet Systems, NR Marine, Orthodontic Centers of America (OCA), Pillowtex, Q-Entertainment (Q-Zar), Quality Beverage, Reliant Energy, and Sun Healthcare. Further, he has provided significant advice in the retail industry, including matters with Bruno’s, Fiesta Supermarkets, 50-Off Stores, Homeland Stores, Stanley Stores and a global video store chain. Mr. Carroll has provided expert witness testimony on issues ranging from plan of reorganization development and feasibility to interest rates and loan to value analysis on real estate. He has also advised on the application of Fresh Start accounting (SOP 90-7) to companies emerging from bankruptcy and was part of a national AIRA task force to suggest revisions and clarifications of the accounting standard to the FASB and SEC. Mr. Carroll has advised on SOP 90-7 issues to Camelot Music, Discovery Zone, Delphi, Eddie Bauer, KB Toys, Levitz and Minorplanet Systems. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Carroll worked in the U.S. division of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Business Recovery Services group. Before that, he worked in PwC’s Assurance and Business Advisory Services group performing audits of financial services clients, including securities brokers and dealers, mortgage companies and life insurance companies. Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Carroll was a financial analyst for a national real estate development and management firm. Mr. Carroll holds an M.A. in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in finance from Southwest Texas State University. While at the University of Texas, he received the Most Outstanding Student Award for the Class of 1992. Mr. Carroll also attended the Washington Campus Program at Georgetown University. He is a certified insolvency and restructuring advisor, certified public accountant and a certified turnaround professional. Mr. Carroll is a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Turnaround Management Association, Texas-Ex Student Association and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors. HON. JUDGE LEIF M. CLARK has served as a bankruptcy judge for the Western District of Texas since 1987. During his tenure on the bench, he has authored well over 200 opinions, some of which have been seminal decisions on emerging issues in both consumer and business bankruptcy. In addition, he has published scholarly articles in law reviews, including a series of articles on bankruptcy jurisprudence in the Fifth Circuit from 1995 through 2002 in the Texas Tech University Law Review. For many years, Judge Clark also authored a monthly column offering a judicial perspective on legal and practice issues in the ABI Journal. He also testified before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission regarding Article III issues relating to bankruptcy. Judge Clark has been a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy issues at seminars nationwide, speaking on a wide range of bankruptcy issues, both consumer and business-related. In addition, he served as a director and officer of the American Bankruptcy Institute for many years and participated in the formation of that organization’s Endowment Committee to fund bankruptcy research. He currently serves as a member of the Endowment Board for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Teaching has always been an important part of Judge Clark’s professional career. For sixteen years, he taught short courses in American Constitutional Law to foreign students as part of the International Master of Laws Program for McGeorge School of Law, teaching in Salzburg, Austria. He also helped to design and then administer a judicial training program for USAID, training judges in Poland, Romania, Latvia, and the Ukraine. He has also taught both basic and advanced courses in bankruptcy law for the University of Texas School of Law as an adjunct professor. Judge Clark has also been privileged to participate in the development of international insolvency regimes, serving as part of the advisory committee to the U.S. delegation to UNCITRAL’s drafting of the Model Cross Border Insolvency Law. In addition, he served on the ABA’s delegation to UNCITRAL as it developed its legislative guide for insolvency law, participating in working group sessions in Vienna, Austria. He also was a member of the advisory group that developed the Transnational Insolvency Guide for ALI-ABA. Before attending law school at the University of Houston School of Law (where he graduated with honors and was a published editor on that school’s law review), he served in specialized ministries for the American Lutheran Church, after graduating from the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (now Trinity Lutheran Seminary) in Columbus, Ohio, where he obtained a master of divinity degree. He completed his undergraduate work with honors at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. Judge Clark takes special pride in what he deems his most important accomplishments - his son, Harrison (born in 2003) and his daughter, Carson Renee (born in early 2006). And he values the love, partnership, and support that he enjoys with their mother and his wife, Rochel Lemler-Clark, who is a practicing commercial litigation attorney. They all live in happy chaos in San Antonio, Texas. ALBERT S. CONLY is a senior managing director in FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and is based in Dallas. Mr. Conly has 30 years of extensive restructuring, corporate finance and asset management experience in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, energy, refining, financial services, retail, real estate, telecommunications and broadcasting. He has a proven track record of leading client focused teams in solving complex business problems related to mergers, acquisitions, business integration, capital raising, capital structure, operational improvements, dispositions and investment decisions. During his tenure, Mr. Conly has represented a wide variety of clientele with corporate finance, business recovery, lender services, investigative and litigation advisory services needs. His assignments include large and complex transactions with several constituencies and competing agendas. Examples of representative engagements include Reichmann Petroleum Corp.; Davis Petroleum Corp; Entergy New Orleans; Enron Corporation; Panaco, Inc.; Vartec Telecom; Williams Communications Inc.; Sphinx Funds; Encompass Services; Pillowtex; American Plumbing; a large oil and gas operator; Fortune 25 energy company; and Fortune 50 energy company. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Conly was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and a managing director in the corporate and investment bank of Bank of America, where he managed the bank’s exposure to financial institutions, including banks, mortgage companies, finance companies, broker/dealers, money managers and leasing companies. His experience includes eight years of corporate finance and restructuring experience with Bank of America and its predecessors, seven years of energy industry experience, and five years of regulatory and compliance experience with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. While with Bank of America, Mr. Conly was responsible for the management and disposition of approximately $1.2 billion of owned oil and gas properties obtained through foreclosure or settlement with borrowers. Additionally he served in various industry capacities, including as joint venture and revenue accountant with Texas Eastern Corporation and National Exploration Company, director of finance with Traco Petroleum Corporation and controller with Petroleum Acquisitions Corporation. Mr. Conly has served on numerous panels and spoke about a variety of corporate finance and restructuring topics, including presentations to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Large Bank Examination group on several industries, including telecommunications and power. He holds a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a certified public accountant in the state of Texas. THOMAS A. CREEKMORE III is with the firm of Hall Estill in Tulsa and has been practicing in the Bankruptcy field for more than 25 years. He has an individual AV-rating through Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected a Best Lawyer in America in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights. In addition, he has been recognized as an Oklahoma Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights and was named to the 2006 bankruptcy law “dream team” by the Tulsa Business Journal. JAMES F. CRESS is a partner in the Denver office of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP practicing international and domestic mining and natural resources law. He has negotiated and documented complex acquisitions, asset dispositions and financings and provided counsel regarding mining, land and title issues for coal, uranium, gold, copper, iron, oil and gas, molybdenum and other mineral-producing clients. He has experience in private and U.S. federal mineral royalty matters, and administrative appeals and litigation of mining and public lands issues. He has testified as a mining royalty expert before House and Senate committees considering mining royalty legislation. He has advised clients on the development, implementation and interpretation of mining law and regulation in the U.S., Asia, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. His international experience includes negotiation of substantial investments in developing countries, including negotiations with host governments, and includes work in the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ethiopia, Brazil, Suriname and Burma. He has been an adjunct professor and lecturer in the University of Denver’s Graduate Studies Program in Natural Resources and Environmental Law. He has served the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation as a member of the editorial board for the Form 5A committee and the current Form 5 LLC committee, revision author and member of the editorial committee for American Law of Mining (2d Ed.), mining chair for 1998 Annual Institute and international co-chair for the 2006 Annual Institute, and member of the Form 7 confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement committee, as well as authoring papers for various annual and special institutes. He is listed in “International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers” and “Best Lawyers in America.” LYNN P. HENDRIX (Co-Chair) is a partner in the Denver office of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP. Lynn maintains a multi-disciplinary transactional practice relating to a variety of types of property and industries, with particular emphasis on energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law (including trade secrets, copyrights, patents and trademarks), and finance and lending law. Lynn also counsels clients, from individuals to large corporations, on general commercial and corporate law. The breadth and depth of Lynn’s practice allows him to bring unique ideas, concepts and solutions to transactions and business relationships. Since 1978, Lynn has represented clients in virtually all types of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, financing, alliances, ventures and other commercial transactions. Lynn's energy and natural resources practice includes mergers, acquisitions and financing, as well as day-to-day business matters, primarily in the oil and gas and mining industries. These matters have involved both producing and nonproducing properties, gas plants, refineries, transportation and gathering systems and facilities, and exploration and production activities. Lynn also is involved in alternative energy projects, including ethanol, wind and synthetic fuel. Lynn's intellectual property law practice emphasizes software, computer technology and the Internet as well as a variety of other technologies and processes. Lynn is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has negotiated major software and hardware contracts related to operations in the U.S., Europe, South America and the Pacific Rim, including supply agreements, development agreements, integration agreements, license agreements, service-level agreements and strategic alliances. He has also been in charge of significant trademark programs involving most of South America and parts of Europe, as well as the United States. Lynn has represented banks, borrowers and investors in a variety of lending and other finance transactions, with a particular expertise in financing involving energy and natural resources and intellectual property. Lynn also devotes significant time to representing clients in general, commercial and corporate transactions in a variety of industries, and has significant experience in matters involving real property laws and the Uniform Commercial Code. Lynn has authored several articles on intellectual property, energy and natural resources, and finance and lending law. In particular, he has authored or co-authored six law review articles and lectures on a variety of issues relating to intellectual property, energy and natural resources and finance. HON. JUDGE STACEY G. C. JERNIGAN was appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, on May 12, 2006. Previous to her appointment, she practiced for 17 years in the Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Group of the international law firm of Haynes and Boone, LLP (Dallas, Texas office) (1989-2006) and was the Head of the Bankruptcy Practice Group (2000-2006). She represented mostly debtors, committees, and purchasers in large, complex Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. Judge Jernigan was also an adviser to the California Legislature, Sacramento, California, in connection with the California utility financial crisis in 2001. She is: Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification; Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy; Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation; Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation; Master, Board Member, and Bankruptcy Course Instructor for John C. Ford American Inn of Court; Member, American Bankruptcy Institute; Member, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges; Member, State Bar of Texas Bankruptcy Section; Member, Dallas Bar Association Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section. She was selected by D Magazine in 2002 as one of Dallas' Best Lawyers Under 40, by Texas Monthly Law & Politics as one of the Texas Super Lawyers in various years, and was named in the 2005 and 2006 editions of Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business as one of the leading lawyers in the bankruptcy practice field in Texas. Judge Jernigan's publications include: Mass Preference Litigation: Proper Exercise of Fiduciary Duties or Perversion of Equality of Distribution Policy (and What Impact Will the 2005 Bankruptcy Code Amendments Have), 24th Annual Bankruptcy Conference, University of Texas School of Law (Nov. 2005) (co-authored with Francis Smith); Bringing Home the Bacon, or Just Being a Hog? Employee and Executive Compensation Issues in Chapter 11, 22nd Annual Bankruptcy Conference, The University of Texas School of Law (Nov. 2003) (co-authored with Frances Smith); The Insolvency Expert, Chapter 28, Advanced Expert Witness II Course, State Bar of Texas (Feb. 2002) (co-authored with Eric Terry); Tax Attributes of a Debtor as Property of the Estate: When the Tax Planning and Bankruptcy Worlds Collide, 17th Annual Advanced Business Bankruptcy Course, State Bar of Texas (May 1999); 1994 Consumer Bankruptcy Developments: The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, 50 BUSINESS LAWYER 1193 (May 1995). Judge Jernigan obtained her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and her B.B.A., magna cum laude, from Southern Methodist University in 1986. HON. CHIEF JUDGE RONALD B. KING is the Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Texas, based in San Antonio. He has been a bankruptcy judge since 1988 and teaches regularly at continuing legal education courses on bankruptcy. He is a member of the San Antonio Bar Association, San Antonio Bankruptcy Bar Association, and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Judge King obtained his B.A. in Political Science with High Honors in 1974 from Southern Methodist University and his J.D. with High Honors in 1977 from the University of Texas School of Law. PHILLIP LAMBERSON is with the firm of Winstead PC in Dallas has extensive and varied experience in all areas of bankruptcy and out of court workouts. Phil's experience includes representing debtors, trustees, lenders and lender groups, indenture trustees, bondholders and bondholder groups, unsecured creditors, creditor committees, lessors, landlords, purchasers and postpetition lenders. Phil represents secured creditors in all areas of bankruptcy and workout, including DIP financing and cash collateral issues, plan negotiation and surcharge issues. He handles all aspects of unsecured creditor representation, including proof of claim issues, plan negotiation and assumption and rejection of leases and contracts. He also regularly represents unsecured creditor committees. Phil represents purchasers of assets from bankruptcy debtors, including negotiating, drafting and obtaining court approval of purchase documents. He aids both panel and private trustees in all aspects of case administration, including claim objections and avoidance litigation. Phil also prosecutes and defends all types of bankruptcy litigation, including avoidance litigation, insider litigation, contract disputes and business tort claims. He has extensive appellate experience, including several arguments to the U.S. Courts of Appeals. JUDY HAMILTON MORSE is a shareholder and director in the Firm's Oklahoma City office and serves as chair of the Litigation section for the Firm. As an experienced trial lawyer, Ms. Morse focuses on litigation and trial practice, as well as bankruptcy and creditors' rights. Ms. Morse has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a number of business litigation matters in various industries including securities, financial services, lending, consumer credit, franchising, real estate and energy. Ms. Morse has represented creditors, debtors, committees and trustees in bankruptcy cases in numerous jurisdictions throughout the country. She has served as lead counsel for debtors in chapter 11 reorganization cases for Homeland Stores, Inc., Harold's Stores, Inc., TSG, Inc., Hadson Corporation, Freymiller Trucking, Inc., and Magnolia Gas Company, L.L.C., among others. Recently, Ms. Morse has represented approximately 40 oil and gas producers in the SemCrude bankruptcy pending in Delaware and has represented a public authority in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers pending in the Southern District of New York. Ms. Morse is admitted to practice in all state courts in Oklahoma, as well as the United States District Courts for the Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma and the Northern District of Texas, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She has been listed for over 10 years in the Best Lawyers Publication and is recognized in Bet the Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law and Franchise Law. She was also selected as the 2010 Oklahoma City Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. Ms. Morse was named one of Oklahoma's Top 25 Female Lawyers and recognized in Business Litigation by SuperLawyers in 2008 and 2009. She is a member of both the Litigation Counsel of America and the International Defense Counsel Association. Ms. Morse was appointed by the Chief Judge to the Admissions and Grievances Committee for the Western District of Oklahoma and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma County Bar Association. She received the Oklahoma Bar Association's Professionalism Award in 2008. She is the past President and Trustee of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation, previously served on the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court and is a Master of the Bench in the William J. Holloway, Jr. American Inn of Court. She is an Oklahoma Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Ms. Morse received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oklahoma. She continued her education at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she received her Juris Doctor. She graduated with honors, and was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa. She was editor-in-chief of the Oklahoma Law Review, and was awarded the Nathan Scarritt Prize for the highest law school grade point average. JEFFREY S. MUNOZ is with the firm of Vinson & Elkins in Houston. Jeff’s principal areas of practice are M&A, finance, project development, and other transactions primarily related to the energy industry. He has developed both a domestic and international practice representing clients in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the United States in various M&A transactions. In recent years, Jeff has begun to do a significant amount of work in the finance area with complex structured deals with equity participation and intercreditor relationships as well as the financing of U.S. and Latin American energy-related projects. Jeff has represented a broad range of clients including energy, chemical, real estate, utility, and telecommunications companies together with private equity, hedge funds, and other financial institutions. He currently serves as the Hiring Partner of the Houston office. He received his J.D. from Stanford University where he was the Business Manager and Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Journal and Vice President of the Stanford Law Student Association. He was admitted to practice in Texas in 1993 and has been recognized as a "Texas Rising Star" in mergers and acquisitions, Texas Monthly, 2005, and among The Best Lawyers in America® in corporate law, 2008 – 2010, and in energy law, 2010. JAMES E. PARKMAN has been associated with the energy industry and financial services business for over 30 years as an employee of energy companies, an investment banker specializing in energy and an entrepreneur providing financial services to energy companies. He is now involved in an investment banking firm formed in 2007 named Parkman Whaling LLC. DAVID PATTON is co-chair of the Energy Practice Group at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP in Houston. He has over 30 years experience in various legal aspects of the oil and gas industry, including acquisitions and sales of assets or equity interests, drafting and negotiating leases, contracts, and agreements related to field, pipeline and plant operations. Mr. Patton has represented clients in connection with surface use conflicts, day to day exploration and development activities, and the resolution of oil and gas disputes. In addition, he was lead attorney in over $3 billion in oil and gas property transactions in 2007-2009. He is a frequent speaker on oil and gas issues. DAVID R. PAYNE is Firm Managing Director of D. R. Payne and Associates, Inc. To every engagement, he brings over 20 years of experience in accounting, appraisal, management and consulting, in both private industry and the public sector. Before organizing the firm, Mr. Payne was a partner in the Consulting Group of the international accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Payne also serves as Director and Principal of Business Valuators & Appraisers as well as Turnaround Professionals, sister organizations specializing in appraisal and business management services, respectively. He has served as interim chief executive officer or financial officer during turnarounds and restructurings, court appointed trustee and receiver, as well as expert witness in matters of appraisal and damage assessments. Mr. Payne earned his B.S. in Accounting from Oklahoma Christian University in 1980. He has advanced his professional education through a number of specialized seminars, courses and certifications, including the following: Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Business Valuations; Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). He was among the first 100 professionals to be certified as a CTP and one of the 80 charter members certified as CIRA. His extensive organizational affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA); the American Society of Appraisers (ASA - former local chapter president); the Turnaround Management Association (TMA); the Association of Insolvency Restructuring Advisor Examiners (AIRA - current national board member); and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE). ROBIN E. PHELAN's practice is exclusively devoted to insolvency, reorganization and related areas, including extensive litigation in the bankruptcy court and other federal courts. He works with other Haynes and Boone attorneys to analyze the effect of bankruptcy on corporate and financial transactions. Robin is a frequent speaker on panels and programs throughout the United States and internationally regarding developments in bankruptcy and insolvency law and is the author of numerous publications, several relating to tax, governmental and environmental claims. He is a contributor to several major treatises on bankruptcy and has testified before both the Congressional Bankruptcy Review Commission and the United States Congress on insolvency matters. He has recently participated in a program sponsored by the United States Department of State and the United Nations to develop model cross border insolvency provisions and participated in a White House program to improve the United States bankruptcy system. NANCY B. RAPOPORT is the Gordon Silver Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991. She started her academic career at The* Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure in 1995 to Associate Dean for Student Affairs (1996) and Professor (1998) (just as she left Ohio State to become Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law). She served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. She then served as Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 and as Professor of Law from June 2006-June 2007, when she left to join the faculty at Boyd. Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture. She has taught Contracts, Sales (Article 2), Bankruptcy, Chapter 11 Reorganization, Legal Writing, Contract Drafting, Corporate Scandals, and Professional Responsibility. Among her published works is ENRON: CORPORATE FIASCOS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS (Foundation Press 2004) (co-edited with Professor Bala G. Dharan of Rice University). The second edition, ENRON AND OTHER CORPORATE FIASCOS: THE CORPORATE SCANDAL READER (Nancy B. Rapoport, Jeffrey D. Van Niel & Bala G. Dharan, eds.; Foundation Press 2d ed. 2009), addresses the question of why we never seem to learn from prior scandals. Soon out will be the LAW SCHOOL SURVIVAL MANUAL, co-authored with Jeffrey D. Van Niel (Aspen Publishers 2009). She is admitted to the bars of the states of California, Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Nevada and of the United States Supreme Court. In 2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and in 2002, she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Rice University. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. In 2009, the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel presented her with the Public Service Counsel Award at the 4th Annual Counsel of the Year Awards. She has also appeared in the Academy Award®-nominated movie, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Magnolia Pictures 2005) (as herself). Although the movie garnered her a listing in www.imdb.com, she still hasn’t been able to join the Screen Actors Guild. In her spare time, she competes, pro-am, in American Rhythm and American Smooth ballroom dancing with her teacher, Sergei Shapoval. The best way to reach her is to call her on her cell phone. M. SCOTT REGAN is an Attorney for EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Regan is responsible for upstream and midstream operations in the Wind River and Green River basins of Wyoming, as well as midstream operations in Colorado. Mr. Regan began his legal career with the law firm of Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich (now Crowley Fleck) in Helena, Montana. After moving to Denver, Colorado in 1998, Mr. Regan was an associate with Holland & Hart until 2002, and later with Kerr Brosseau Bartlett O’Brien. Prior to joining EnCana in 2004, Mr. Regan’s practice focused on oil and gas, litigation, and commercial transactions. Mr. Regan currently serves on the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Long Range Planning Committee and is a member of the Montana and Colorado State Bar Associations, the Denver Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Mr. Regan is the author of “Tonack v. Montana Bank: Preemption, Interpretation, and Older Employees Under Montana's Wrongful Discharge From Employment Act,” 56 Mont. L. Rev. 585 (1995). Mr. Regan received his B.A. in History, with Honors, from Montana State University (1993) and his J.D. from the University of Montana (1996), where he served as an editor of the Montana Law Review. CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON is the managing partner and a partner in the Corporate Finance & Acquisitions Group at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP in Denver. His corporate practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and financing work, primarily in the purchase and sale of privately held companies. Many of his transactions have been in connection with leveraged buyouts and buildups of platform or portfolio companies. In addition, he has substantial experience in transactions involving oil & gas and coal companies in both the context of purchase and sale transactions as well as day-to-day operational matters. He also has significant financing experience, and has represented venture capital groups, institutional lenders and equity participants in loan and restructuring matters. Chris has represented western coal producers in various aspects of their operations. He has represented Rio Tinto Energy, Colowyo Coal Company, Peabody Energy, Westmoreland Coal, Triton Coal Company, Vulcan Capital Management, and Montana Power in matters ranging from utility bankruptcies, preparation of long-term coal supply agreements, joint-venture coal projects and in major purchase and sale transactions and structured financings. Additionally, he has substantial experience in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters. He has worked with creditors, debtors and creditors committees in numerous Chapter 11 proceedings (Standard Metals, MiniScribe, Colorado-Ute Electric Association, Formus Communications, NII Holdings, Schwinn Bicycles, among others), buying and selling companies out of Chapter 11, as well as reorganizing or liquidating debtor companies. Recently, he represented a purchaser in successfully acquiring the assets of an oil and gas company in a competitive auction in a Wyoming bankruptcy matter. Chris is currently representing an oil & gas client with a significant unsecured claim in the Sem Crude bankruptcy pending in the Delaware bankruptcy court. He has lectured on acquisition agreements, deal structures, debtor-creditor issues, including the impact of bankruptcy on environmental laws, lessor-lessee relationships in bankruptcy, bankruptcy current developments, and the sale of assets in a bankruptcy. PETER D. ROBINSON is an associate in the Denver office of the law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP. His practice includes assisting clients with the legal aspects and documentation of oil and gas mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financings and other exploration and development operations. Born and raised in Casper, Wyoming, Peter has a B.A. degree from the University of Wyoming and a law degree from the University of Virginia. DEBORAH D. WILLIAMSON is head of the Creditors' Rights, Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy department at Cox Smith. She is a bankruptcy attorney recognized worldwide for her knowledge of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues. Based in San Antonio, she travels frequently around the state, nation and world to address colleagues and counsel clients on bankruptcy issues and trends. She is regularly called on by companies in a broad range of industries, including commercial banks, institutional lenders, service providers, commercial landlords, governmental units and individuals, for her bankruptcy experience.Deborah was recently featured in Texas Lawyer's Go-To Guide as one of five lawyers in the bankruptcy category (published only every five years). Named a leader in her field by Chambers USA since 2003, Deborah was selected for inclusion by Law and Politics magazine as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Texas (regardless of practice) in 2008. She has been selected for inclusion as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas and one of the Top 50 Lawyers in Central Texas by Law and Politics since the honor's inception and in The Best Lawyers in America® consecutively for more than a decade.
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