About the Editor and Authors

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ABOUT THE EDITOR AND AUTHORS

EDITOR:

Tyler P. Brown, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Richmond.
Tyler P. Brown, editor of this book and author of Chapter 10, is a partner with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Richmond, and is co-chair of the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights Practice Group. Tyler has substantial experience handling complex bankruptcy matters from both the creditor and the debtor sides. He regularly represents creditors committees and handles loan workouts, lender liability claims, contract disputes, landlord-tenant disputes and other commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Brown provides transactional and lending advice to commercial, consumer and mortgage lenders, private equity firms and hedge funds, and public and private companies. He has extensive litigation experience with adversary proceedings and contested matters in U.S. Bankruptcy Courts and commercial litigation in numerous state and federal courts.

Mr. Brown received his J.D. in 1987 from Washington & Lee School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington & Lee Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Richard H. Poff, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, before joining Hunton & Williams in 1988, which became Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in 2018. Mr. Brown is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and of the Virginia Bar Foundation, is the immediate past President of the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation, previously served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Bankruptcy Section of the Virginia State Bar, and is a past President of the Bar Association of the City of Richmond.

AUTHORS:

Harold E. Bell, Harold E. Bell, P.C., Norfolk.
Harold E. Bell, author of Chapter 4, received a B.S. from Wofford College (1975), a M.B.A. from Old Dominion University (1978), and a J.D. from the T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond (1984), where he served as a member of the University of Richmond Law Review. Mr. Bell's practice focuses on corporate and business law, shareholder agreements and disputes, employment law/compensation arrangements, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, commercial real property (acquisitions, dispositions, leases, finance), and estate planning. He is member of the Virginia State Bar and the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Associations.

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Paul S. (Chip) Bliley, Jr., Williams Mullen, Richmond.
Mr. Bliley, author of Chapter 1, is a partner at Williams Mullen's Richmond office.

Chip Bliley's practice is focused on bankruptcy, creditor's rights, problem loans, foreclosures, workouts, collateral liquidation and commercial litigation. Mr. Bliley has dealt with a broad range of creditor's rights and bankruptcy issues. He has extensive experience in asset sales and acquisitions, protection of secured positions, negotiation of reorganization plans, foreclosures and other issues that frequently arise in the debtor/creditor relationship. He has also represented lending institutions in a broad variety of real estate title issues, including title insurance claims, mechanic's lien coverage issues and related issues. He has represented banks, lending institutions, consumer finance companies, mortgage companies and mortgage servicers routinely in connection with business and consumer bankruptcies and financial restructures.

He is a member of the Bankruptcy Section of the Richmond Bar Association and has serviced as its chairman. He also speaks often to various groups on creditor's rights issues, including foreclosure and eviction issues. Mr. Bliley is listed among Virginia Business magazine's "Legal Elite," The Best Lawyers in America for Banking Law and Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law and Virginia Super Lawyers magazine for Creditor's Rights, and is recognized as a leading bankruptcy attorney in the U.S. by Chambers USA.

His professional affiliations include membership in the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Richmond Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Virginia Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...