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Gregory R. Schaaf Greg is a member of the Tax and Finance Practice Group, and the Bankruptcy and Workout Team Co-Chair. He concentrates his practice on commercial transactions, primarily dealing in commercial reorganizations, including bankruptcies and workouts. Greg has represented large and small debtors, creditors, creditors' committees and lessors/lessees in anticipation of, and after, the filing of bankruptcy petitions
Education
B.B., Accounting, Western Illinois University, 1984
B.S., Law Enforcement Administration,, Western Illinois University, 1984
J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law, 1991
Admitted to Practice
Kentucky
Courts Admitted to Practice
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Kentucky Supreme Court
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
American Bankruptcy Institute
The Law Society of England and Wales
American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Fayette County Bar Association
Professional Leadership
Board Certified - Business Bankruptcy Law American Board of Certification
Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1984
Solicitor of the Supreme Court (England and Wales) 1999
Order of the Coif, University of Kentucky College of Law
High Honors, Western Illinois University
Kentucky National Moot Court Team, 1990-1991
Kentucky Moot Court Board, 1989-1991
President, Student Bar Association, 1989 - 1990
Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, 1989 - 1991
Honors and Awards
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2008
Selected to Kentucky Super Lawyers, 2007
Civic and Charitable Involvement
Lexington Humane Society 2000-Present; President 2005-; Vice President 2004; Secretary, 2002-2004
Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce, Council on Smaller Enterprises Steering Committee 1999-2002
Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky; President, 1995-96, 1996-97; Treasurer 1993-94, 1994-95
Selected Publications and Presentations
Publications:
Article, Protecting the Intangibles, Business Lexington, April 21, 2006
Article, Federal Bankruptcy Code Changes, Business Lexington, October 7, 2005
Article, Are There Any Critical Lenders Left? FindLaw, February 2005
Comment, Freede v. Commissioner: Closing a Loophole that Closed a Loophole, 6 Journal of Mineral Law and Policy 129, 1990 - 1991
Presentations:
Preference Strategies and Other Insolvency Issues for Creditors, 30th Annual Mineral Law Conference, October 27-28, 2005
Picking Up the Pieces After a Coal Company Files Bankruptcy, 29th Mineral Law Conference, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, October 15, 2004
Sale of Assets in Chapter 11 Cases 363 Sales; General Break-up Fee Issues in Section 363 Sales, Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar, August 20, 2004.
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