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