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Andrea Chase
Partner
(she, her, hers)
Overview
Andrea Chase represents secured and unsecured creditors and bankruptcy trustees in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings such as receiverships and foreclosure proceedings, out of court workouts and restructurings, and other related insolvency matters.
Andrea is involved in multiple bankruptcy organizations. She currently serves on the advisory board for the Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute, an annual program jointly sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Andrea also serves on the board of the Kansas City Bankruptcy Bar Association.
Andrea graduated with highest distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law. During law school, she externed for Chief Judge Thad Collins of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Iowa. She also served as a Managing Editor for the Iowa Law Review, was a member of the Pro Bono Society, and earned a Boyd Service Award. Andrea received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in Business Administration and Government & International Affairs from Augustana College.
Credentials
Education
- University of Iowa College of Law (J.D.)
- Augustana College (B.A.), summa cum laude
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
- Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2023-2024
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly, Up & Coming, 2022
- Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2022-2023
- American Bankruptcy Institute, 40 Under 40 Honoree, 2021
- Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute, Chair
- Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute, Advisory Board
- American Bankruptcy Institute, Secured Credit Committee, Education Director
- Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Centurions Leadership Program, Apex Fall Class of 2024
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- Kansas City Bankruptcy Bar Association
- Northland Regional Chamber of Commerce
- “Off to the Races: Procedural and Substantive Implications of § 557 and Grain Storage Facilities,” XLI ABI Journal 40-41, 71, December 2022
- “Legal Eagle Spotlight: What Does the Trustee Mean to Me,” The Show-Me Banker, December 2021
- “Trouble on the Farm?” ABA Banking Journal, October 2020
- “Family Farmer Relief Act Expands Chapter 12 Eligibility,” The Missouri Banker, Volume 75, No. 11, November 2019
- “Beware of Priming Liens: Four Common Types of Priming Liens and Interests,” American Bankruptcy Institute, Secured Credit Newsletter, September 2019
- “Property of the Chapter 7 Estate in a Converted Individual Chapter 11 Case?” XXXVI ABI Journal 8, 20, 76-78, August 2017
- “Death Traps, Pitfalls and Safe Harbors: The Key Provisions of 11 U.S.C. § 546,” American Bankruptcy Institute, Young and New Members Committee Newsletter, 2014
- Missouri Bankruptcy Practice, 2nd Ed., 2015 Cumulative Supplement to Chapter 8: Chapter 11 Case Administration