Danielle Mashburn-Myrick
Partner
Danielle Mashburn-Myrick focuses her practice in three specific areas: bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. She brings extensive experience earned from representing clients across and beyond the firm’s footprint and in numerous industries, including marine and energy, healthcare, retail, hospitality, commercial real estate, transportation, and banking and financial services.
In her bankruptcy practice, Danielle frequently represents community banks and global financial institutions as well as manufacturers, landlords and asset purchasers in reorganizations and liquidations. She advises distressed companies, corporate officers and directors, and guarantors in pre-bankruptcy planning, out-of-court workouts, wind downs and debt restructurings.
Experience
- Lead counsel to unsecured creditor—a global marine and energy company—in bringing adversary proceeding against chapter 7 trustee to recover money from the estate of a former fuel bunkering entity. Successfully opposed chapter 7 trustee’s objection to claim.
- Lead counsel to largest general unsecured creditor in objecting to a specialty food producer and small business debtor’s disclosure statement and plan of reorganization. Representation resulted in confirmation of a plan to pay client 100% of its claim.
- Counsel to general unsecured agricultural creditor in objecting to confirmation of chapter 12 farm debtor’s plan of reorganization. Representation resulted in confirmation of a plan to pay client 46 cents on the dollar, when other general unsecured creditors received nothing under the plan.
- Advised secured lender in student housing complex debtor’s chapter 11 case, including litigation over use of cash collateral, which culminated in a § 363 sale of client’s collateral and recovery of 100% of the outstanding principal and accrued interest.
- Represented law firm in successfully responding to chapter 7 trustee’s demand for return of allegedly preferential prepetition payments. Representation resulted in no payment to the trustee and no commencement of litigation.