Ellen B Vergos
Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
The Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Service Team is composed of attorneys with broad experience in this area of law, including the former United States Trustee for Kentucky/Tennessee, a former Chapter 13 Standing Trustee, a former Chapter 7 Trustee, and attorneys who have served as Chapter 11 Trustees. This experienced, talented, and responsive team represents secured and unsecured creditors, debtors and trustees in cases under all chapters of the Bankruptcy Code. Our attorneys in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, and Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, are widely recognized for their accomplishments and regularly lecture at continuing legal education seminars.
Although the range of their collective experience is broad, these attorneys devote most of their time to guiding both lenders, debtors and interested parties through often complex and fast-moving Chapter 11 cases, and have developed extensive experience in coal industry related Chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations. In these cases, the Bankruptcy & Creditors Rights Service Team draws from the Firm's long history and extensive experience with coal regulatory, property, transactional and environmental matters. These cases raise diverse and unique issues due to the blending of bankruptcy law and a complex Federal and state regulatory scheme governing the operation of many such businesses. Recent coal industry cases of note in which the Firm has had significant involvement include Black Diamond Resources, Miller Bros. Coal, Horizon Natural Resources, and Lodestar Energy.
In addition, this team serves the bankruptcy and work out needs of the Firm's many clients in the financial institution, manufacturing, commercial real estate, and wholesale distribution worlds. These clients often find themselves seriously impacted when a substantial supplier, customer, tenant, landlord, franchisee, or borrower files a bankruptcy case. In those situations, there is no time for a learning curve, and Wyatt's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Service Team is prepared to take the swift action necessary to protect a client's interests. Wyatt has recently assisted clients in the bankruptcy cases of GM, Chrysler, Enron, Lehman Bros., Mervyn's, Inc., Ames Department Stores, and K-Mart Stores.
When Wyatt's clients find themselves on the defense in a preference action filed by a trustee or liquidating trust, this Wyatt team will work with the client to prepare the most effective defense or reach the appropriate business resolution. And, because bankruptcy law is federal law, Wyatt's bankruptcy team can and do effectively advise clients involved in bankruptcies in any jurisdiction in the country.
In addition to handling all facets of bankruptcy cases, Wyatt's team is experienced in work-outs, collateral enforcement actions, and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Ellen Bronaugh Vergos
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP
1715 Aaron Brenner Dr #800
Memphis TN 38120
Tel: 901 537-1000
Fax: 901 537-1010
Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification
Ellen B. Vergos is a member of the Firm's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Right Service Team and practices primarily in the areas of business bankruptcy, representing creditors and Chapter 11 debtors, and commercial litigation. Ms. Vergos is certified as a Specialist in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization. She is certified by the Tennessee Supreme Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission as a Rule 31 Listed Mediator in the field of General Civil Mediation.
Ms. Vergos represents creditors and business debtors in workouts, debt restructuring and related matters. She regularly represents and advises clients with respect to asset sales in bankruptcy cases.
Ms. Vergos has broad litigation experience representing creditors in business bankruptcy cases, debtors in business bankruptcy cases and in related adversary proceedings and in commercial litigation in state and federal courts. In addition, she is experienced in appeals and has briefed and argued appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Federal Circuits; in Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit; and the Tennessee Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
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