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Allyson Stewart
(816) 460-5553

2345 Grand Blvd.
Suite 2800
Kansas City, MO 64108

Practices
Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights & Business Reorganization
Business Litigation
Financial Institutions


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Presentations
Professional Affiliations
Honors


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Brian T. Fenimore

Experience
  • Mr. Fenimore serves on the Executive Committee of Lathrop & Gage L.C.
  • Judicial clerkship with the Honorable Arthur B. Federman, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Missouri. (1991-1992)
  • Representation of borrowers and lenders in structuring, negotiating, and documenting loan originations and workout, restructure, deed-in-lieu, and voluntary surrender transactions.
  • Representation of borrowers and lenders in problem loan matters—including loan enforcement, guarantor liability, workouts, reorganizations, and bankruptcies throughout the United States.
  • Representation of secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, committees, landlords, tenants, trustees, servicers of mortgage-backed securities, asset buyers, and other parties in interest in all aspects of Chapter 11 reorganization, particularly in the areas of use of cash collateral, debtor-in-possession financing, automatic stay relief, adequate protection, asset sales and acquisitions, contract assumption and rejection, claim allowance, dischargeability, preferences and fraudulent conveyances, and plan confirmation and cramdown litigation.

Education
  • University of Michigan, J.D., 1990
  • University of Missouri - Columbia, B.S., Ag., magna cum laude, 1988
Admissions
  • Missouri, 1991
  • Kansas, 1991
Court Memberships
  • U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Kansas and the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri
Honors
  • Martindale-Hubbell® "AV" Rating
  • Selected among The Best Lawyers in America®, 2003 - 2008
  • Selected for Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005, 2006 and 2007 
  • Selected for Best Attorneys Network Directory, 2005
  • Named 'Best of the Bar' by the Kansas City Business Journal, 2004 and 2005

 

Professional Affiliations
  • American Bar Association, Litigation and Business Sections
  • Missouri Bar, Commercial Law Committee, Agricultural Law Committee, Vice Chair, 1998
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Committee, Chairman (1995 & 1999), Vice Chair (1995 & 1999)
  • Kansas City Bankruptcy Bar Association, Secretary/Treasurer, 1993-1998
  • American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
  • Ad Hoc Advisory Committee to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri, 1997-2000
  • Kansas City Tomorrow Leadership Program Class XX, 1997-98 (Kansas City Civic Council Leadership Program)
  • Old Mission United Methodist Church, Administrative Board Chairman (2003-2005), Pastor-Parish Relations Committee (1999-2002), Board of Trustees (2005), Task Force for the Protection of Children & Youth (1998); Youth Council (1996-2003)
Presentations
  • Speaker, Creditors' Rights in Missouri, Lorman Education Seminar, March 2006
  • Speaker, Discharge Issues Under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, MoBarCLE Annual Bankruptcy Institute Seminar, February 2006
  • Speaker, Adversary Proceedings – Why Bother, MoBarCLE Annual Bankruptcy Institute Seminar, February 2004
  • Speaker, The Role of the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee in Chapter 11, KCMBA Practice Pointers for the Bankruptcy Practitioner, June 12, 2003
  • Speaker, The Code Giveth and the Code Taketh Away:   Sections 506(b) and (c), KCMBA Commercial Bankruptcy Committee CLE Luncheon, March 2003
  • Speaker, Preference Defenses, MoBarCLE Annual Bankruptcy Institute Seminar, February 2000
  • Speaker, Enforcements of Pre-Petition Bankruptcy Waivers, Kansas City Bankruptcy Bar Association Seminar, April 1999
  • Speaker, Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, KCMBA Commercial and Bankruptcy CLE Seminar,
  • June 1995
  • Moderator, Commercial and Bankruptcy Committee Breakout, Update of Law Session, KCMBA/ KCMBF Bench-Bar Conference, May 1995
  • Speaker, Proposed Bankruptcy Amendments, KCMBA Commercial and Bankruptcy CLE Seminar, June 1994
  • Speaker, Commercial and Bankruptcy Committee Breakout, Bankruptcy Update, KCMBA/KCMBF Bench-Bar Conference, April 1994




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