Dan has taken the lead in a wide range of insolvency and bankruptcy matters as well as developing unique skills in such niche areas as representing retirees in the bankruptcy of their former employer; federal transportation regulation; and litigation of American Indian sovereignty rights. He is currently leader of the firm's Financial Services Group.
His accomplishments include the successful corporate and financial restructuring of a $100 million Native American business that helped preserve well-paying reservation jobs in an economically challenged area of Oklahoma, including litigating against states' attempts to tax the tribal business out of existence; effectively reorganizing an Ohio interstate motor carrier, which emerged from... » Read More Dan has taken the lead in a wide range of insolvency and bankruptcy matters as well as developing unique skills in such niche areas as representing retirees in the bankruptcy of their former employer; federal transportation regulation; and litigation of American Indian sovereignty rights. He is currently leader of the firm's Financial Services Group.
His accomplishments include the successful corporate and financial restructuring of a $100 million Native American business that helped preserve well-paying reservation jobs in an economically challenged area of Oklahoma, including litigating against states' attempts to tax the tribal business out of existence; effectively reorganizing an Ohio interstate motor carrier, which emerged from Chapter 11 and has continued to operate; and securing most of the retiree benefits promised to Monsanto and Solutia Inc. retirees though a Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association trust under Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(9) funded with more than $175 million in cash.
Dan has also handled cases involving cargo claim disputes, commercial leasing disputes, prior fights among lienholders, disputed carrier accessorial charges; and litigation concerning rail carrier rates and charges.
Dan is a frequent speaker, particularly on issues common to transportation laws and bankruptcy. He has been invited to speak to such groups as the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, the Transportation Lawyers Association, and the Canadian Transportation Lawyers Association. He has been an adviser to the Transportation Law Journal, which is published by the Sturm College of Law of the University of Denver.
For more than a decade, he has assisted a major equipment lender and lessor manage litigation in a three-state region. Dan is transportation counsel to a number of businesses, including a Fortune 50 company, and is frequently consulted on regulatory compliance with state and federal transportation regulation.
Dan graduated from the Washington University School of Law, where he was Executive Articles Editor of the Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law and a W.L.H. Griffin scholar. Prior to law school, he worked for nearly a decade as an investigative journalist for several newspapers in the Midwest and the Mid-South after earning a journalism degree from the University of Missouri.
» Read Less Dan has taken the lead in a wide range of insolvency and bankruptcy matters as well as developing unique skills in such niche areas as representing retirees in the bankruptcy of their former employer; federal transportation regulation; and litigation of American Indian sovereignty rights. He is currently leader of the firm's Financial Services Group.
His accomplishments include the successful corporate and financial restructuring of a $100 million Native American business that helped preserve well-paying reservation jobs in an economically challenged area of Oklahoma, including litigating against states' attempts to tax the tribal business out of existence; effectively reorganizing an Ohio interstate motor carrier, which emerged from Chapter 11 and has continued to operate; and securing most of the retiree benefits promised to Monsanto and Solutia Inc. retirees though a Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association trust under Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(9) funded with more than $175 million in cash.
Dan has also handled cases involving cargo claim disputes, commercial leasing disputes, prior fights among lienholders, disputed carrier accessorial charges; and litigation concerning rail carrier rates and charges.
Dan is a frequent speaker, particularly on issues common to transportation laws and bankruptcy. He has been invited to speak to such groups as the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, the Transportation Lawyers Association, and the Canadian Transportation Lawyers Association. He has been an adviser to the Transportation Law Journal, which is published by the Sturm College of Law of the University of Denver.
For more than a decade, he has assisted a major equipment lender and lessor manage litigation in a three-state region. Dan is transportation counsel to a number of businesses, including a Fortune 50 company, and is frequently consulted on regulatory compliance with state and federal transportation regulation.
Dan graduated from the Washington University School of Law, where he was Executive Articles Editor of the Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law and a W.L.H. Griffin scholar. Prior to law school, he worked for nearly a decade as an investigative journalist for several newspapers in the Midwest and the Mid-South after earning a journalism degree from the University of Missouri.
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