2021 Annual Bankruptcy Institute

Matthew Barberich Related Seminars and Products

B. Riley Advisory Services

G. Matt Barberich, Jr., CPA/ABV/CFF/CGMA, CIA, CFE, ASA, MBA is an accounting and financial professional with over 18 years of experience Prior to joining GlassRatner (now doing business as B. Riley Advisory Services, Mr. Barberich provided litigation support, business valuation, and forensic accounting services for MarksNelson, LLC in Kansas City, Missouri from 2004 through 2018. He was an associate of Taylor, Perky & Parker, LLC during 2003.

Mr. Barberich has led numerous litigation support and forensic accounting engagements involving the quantification of losses from alleged embezzlements and other asset misappropriations; accounting irregularities; calculation of lost profits and other economic damage; critiques and rebuttals of lost profits and other economic damages; shareholder and business disputes; statutory and/or regulatory compliance; and whistleblower investigations.

Additionally, Mr. Barberich has also performed hundreds of valuations of closely-held companies for estate and gift tax purposes; income tax compliance; estate planning; appraisal review; shareholder agreements; marital dissolutions; shareholder disputes; and dissenting shareholder and minority oppression lawsuits.

Tracy Brown Related Seminars and Products

Law Office of Tracy Brown, P.C.

Tracy A. Brown has managed her own firm for over 25 years and is licensed in Missouri and Texas. She specializes in Bankruptcy and Tax Resolution. In 2003 she was appointed as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Panel Trustee in the Eastern District of Missouri. She has a Texas CPA license. 

Hon. Bonnie Clair Related Seminars and Products

United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri

Bonnie L. Clair is the Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Conference News and serves on the NCBJ-UST Liaison Committee for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, but people only want to hear about her appearance on Jeopardy! in 2006. 

Diana Daugherty Related Seminars and Products

Ch. 13 Bankruptcy Trustee for the Eastern District of Missouri

Diana Daugherty was appointed Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Eastern District of Missouri on March 1, 2017, and served as staff attorney for John V. LaBarge, Jr., the prior Standing Chapter 13 Trustee. Diana was the 2008 recipient of the Missouri Bar's Roser Award for Excellence in Bankruptcy Practice.

Corrine Edwards Related Seminars and Products

Walters & Edwards, LLC

Corrine Edwards graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. She then obtained her law degree from St. Louis University. She then worked for two years as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Phelps County. Corrine returned to St. Louis to work in bankruptcy and open her law firm eight years ago.

Robert Eggmann Related Seminars and Products

Carmody MacDonald P.C.

Robert E. Eggmann received his Bachelor of Arts from St. Louis University in 1986 and received his Juris Doctorate from St. Louis University School of Law in 1989. Mr. Eggmann is an attorney in the St. Louis, Missouri based law firm Carmody MacDonald P.C. Mr. Eggmann practices in the fields of bankruptcy, restructuring, creditor’s rights, commercial litigation and financial transactions. He has extensive experience in the field of the representation of Chapter 11 debtors and creditors’ committees. Mr. Eggmann also serves as a Chapter 7 panel trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois and a Sub Chapter V trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Illinois. 

Wendee Elliott-Clement Related Seminars and Products

SouthLaw, PC

Wendee Elliott-Clement is a senior attorney with SouthLaw, P.C. and has been with the firm since 2008. She currently practices bankruptcy law in Missouri (EDMO/WDMO), Kansas, Iowa (NDIA/SDIA) and Nebraska. Wendee received her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University and her J.D. from the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

Coleman Ellis Related Seminars and Products

Cook Ellis LLC

Dana Estes Related Seminars and Products

Office of the Chapter 13 Trustee

Dana M. Estes has been a Staff Attorney for Richard V. Fink, the standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Western District of Missouri since 2004. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from William Jewell College in 1993 and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1998.

Hon. Brian Fenimore Related Seminars and Products

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri

Before becoming a bankruptcy judge on August 31, 2017, Brian T. Fenimore led the bankruptcy team at Lathrop Gage LLP for more than 20 years, representing debtors, creditors, and many other parties in interest. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1988 with a degree in Agricultural Economics, and the University of Michigan Law School in 1990. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Arthur B. Federman.

David Going Related Seminars and Products

Armstrong Teasdale LLP

David Going is a respected bankruptcy practitioner and commercial litigator guiding distressed businesses, lenders and creditors in complex insolvency proceedings. He provides targeted, strategic advice in the handling of business reorganizations, bankruptcy litigation and creditor’s rights issues.

As a bankruptcy litigator, Dave has both defended and prosecuted fraudulent conveyance actions arising from alleged Ponzi schemes, leveraged buyouts and insider transactions. 

A fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, Dave is a recognized authority on bankruptcy-related issues. He speaks and writes on these topics regularly for professional and trade groups. An adjunct faculty member at the Washington University School of Law, Dave co-teaches a course on Chapter 11 reorganizations.

He received his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1983, Washington University Law Quarterly (Senior Editor, 1982-1983); and his A.B. in 1980 from Duke University.

Amy Hatch Related Seminars and Products

Polsinelli PC

Amy Hatch facilitates positive resolutions for her clients.  She focuses on debtor-creditor relations, while primarily representing banks, private lenders and loan servicers with enforcing their rights with respect to defaulted loans.  Amy has significant nationwide experience with commercial loans and routinely assists lenders with foreclosures, receiverships and other workout options, including forbearance agreements and loan sales.

Amy recognizes the value of understanding her clients’ ultimate goals and objectives and actively advocates and negotiates on behalf of her clients to meet their expectations.  For nearly 20 years, she has represented her clients in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy court.  In addition, when required, Amy has negotiated numerous loan workouts and other resolutions on behalf of her clients outside of the courtroom.

With experience assisting clients with loans secured by property in nearly every state, Amy has a comprehensive understanding of the challenges lenders and servicers face in handling defaulted loans in various jurisdictions.  She offers a unique perspective on the challenges lenders encounter with respect to costs and timelines and can help navigate clients to a solution that best meets their needs.

Adam Miller Related Seminars and Products

Office of the United States Trustee

Adam E. Miller has been a trial attorney with the Office of the United States Trustee in Kansas City, Missouri since 2007 where he is involved in administering and litigating cases under all Chapters of the Bankruptcy Code.  Previously, he served on detail in the Office of General Counsel for the Executive Office of United States Trustees where he advised program leadership and field offices on numerous issues of bankruptcy law.  Currently, he serves on the program’s working group responsible for supervising the collateralization and safekeeping of more than $3 billion in bankruptcy estate assets. 

Before joining the United States Trustee Program, he was in private practice with the consumer bankruptcy firm of Morgan, Allen and King in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and clerked for the Hon. Yvonne Kauger on the Oklahoma Supreme Court.  He has a B.A. degree from Oklahoma State University; a J.D. degree from Oklahoma City University (summa cum laude) where he served as the Acting Managing Editor of the Oklahoma City University Law Review; and an LL.M. degree from the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at the Boston University School of Law where he served as the Graduate Editor of the Review of Banking and Financial Law.  He is a member of the bars of the state of Oklahoma and Missouri; the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 8th and 10th Circuits and the United States Supreme Court and also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law where he teaches classes in Bankruptcy and Banking Law.

Hon. Cynthia Norton Related Seminars and Products

United States Courthouse

Chief Judge Cynthia A. Norton was appointed on Feb. 1, 2013. She is a frequent speaker and author on many bankruptcy and related topics. 

Thomas Salerno Related Seminars and Products

Stinson LLP

Thomas J. Salerno is a partner in the Restructuring group at Stinson LLP. A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, Mr. Salerno has represented parties in insolvency proceedings in 30 states and five countries. He has been involved in restructurings in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Czech and Slovak Republics. In addition, Mr. Salerno taught Comparative International Insolvency at the University of Salzburg and Gray's Inn School of Law in London, and is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University, teaching Bankruptcy Litigation and Advanced Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. In addition, he is a regular guest lecturer at the Eller MBA Program for the University of Arizona.

Mr. Salerno has extensive experience representing distressed companies, acquirers and creditors in financial restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings, pre- and post-bankruptcy workouts, and corporate recapitalizations. He has represented clients in diverse industries such as casinos, resort hotels, sports teams, real estate, high-tech manufacturing, electricity generation, agribusiness, construction, healthcare, airlines and franchised fast-food operations. Mr. Salerno has also served as an expert witness on U.S. insolvency law in litigation in Germany. Mr. Salerno represented Coyote Hockey LLC, owners of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL), in historic bankruptcy proceedings that resulted in an unprecedented solution: the NHL purchasing one of its own teams for the first time in the league’s 90-year history.

He headed the U.S. delegation to the Czech Republic in advising the Czech Government in the historic revamping of its bankruptcy law, which took effect in January 2008. Mr. Salerno has also advised on revamping insolvency laws in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. He is a member of the UNCITRAL working group on its Insolvency Law Reform Project, completed in early 2007. Mr Salerno is a former board and Executive Committee member of the American Bankruptcy Institute; past director of the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, Inc.; a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy Fellow; and a member of the Plan Issues Advisory Subcommittee for the ABI landmark Bankruptcy Review Commission. Mr. Salerno was part of the founding group for the Litigation Skills Symposium for the American Bankruptcy Institute bringing together Judges and experienced bankruptcy attorneys in a “learn by doing” symposium for bankruptcy litigation, with programs held in Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans and San Diego.

Among his other publications are “Chapter 11 Cases Involving Professional Sports Franchises,” Collier Guide to Chapter 11: Key Topics and Selected Industries (LexisNexis, 2019); Executive Guide to Corporate Bankruptcy, Second Edition (Beard Publications); the two-volume Bankruptcy Litigation and Practice; A Practitioners' Guide, Fifth Edition (Aspen Law Publications), Pre-Bankruptcy Planning For The Commercial Reorganization: A Brief Guide For the CEO, CFO/COO. General Counsel and Tax Advisor (ABI 2020); and Acquisitions From Financially Distressed Companies: An Overview (ABI 2020).

Hon. Kathy Surratt-States Related Seminars and Products

US Bankruptcy Court

Judge Surratt-States was sworn in as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri on March 17, 2003 and appointed Chief Judge on February 1, 2013.

Judge Surratt-States received her B.A., cum laude, from Oklahoma City University and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

Sirena Wilson Related Seminars and Products

Office of the United States Trustee

Sirena T. Wilson is a Trial Attorney with the Office of United States Trustee in the St. Louis office. Before joining this office, Sirena worked for a bankruptcy firm and gathered experience in chapter 7, 11 and 13 proceedings.  She also served as Staff Attorney for a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee. Sirena received her undergraduate degree from Grambling State University and her Juris Doctorate from Southern University Law Center.

Cynthia Melone Related Seminars and Products

Millsap & Singer, LLC

Cynthia M. Kern Woolverton is a member with Millsap & Singer, LLC. Ms. Kern Woolverton joined the firm in 1998 and manages the firm’s bankruptcy practice. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Ms. Kern Woolverton received her undergraduate degree from Northeast Missouri State University and her law degree from St. Louis University. 

Ms. Kern Woolverton is licensed in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Kentucky. In addition, she is admitted to practice before the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Ms. Kern Woolverton is a member of the State of Missouri, State of Illinois, State of Kansas, State of Kentucky, St. Louis County, Louisville and American Bar Associations.

Ms. Kern Woolverton frequently speaks on topics relating to foreclosure and bankruptcy practices and procedures for mortgage servicing and attorney organizations.