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Ms. Lamar’s practice focuses primarily on the representation of banks, financial institutions, and other lenders as secured or unsecured creditors in commercial bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings and in loan workouts and debt restructuring efforts. She has also provided representation for the committee of unsecured creditors in chapter 11 cases, and she represents indenture trustees and bondholders on defaulted issues. Her creditors' rights practice extends to commercial foreclosure proceedings and the exercise of Article 9 remedies. In addition, Ms. Lamar handles commercial litigation matters ranging from the collection of sizable debts and obligations, to the defense of lender liability allegations, to contract disputes, arising in bankruptcy proceedings or in state or federal courts. Seminars: All You Wanted to Know About Avoidance Actions: Preferences, Fraudulent Conveyances and Postpetition Transfer, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Nashville, Tennessee, October 2005 Representative Transactions: Served as co-counsel to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in chapter 11 proceedings filed by parent corporation and 23 subsidiaries with plants in seven states engaged in the design, development and manufacture of cast, forged and machined components. Successfully negotiated consensual plan of reorganization with debtors and lending group to allow confirmation only eight months after petition date. Represented Indenture Trustee on defaulted rural hospital bonds held by more than 200 predominantly non-institutional holders. Obtained immediate appointment of chapter 11 trustee for day-to-day management of hospital and financial control, negotiated post-petition financing, then worked with trustee through operating issues including threatened loss of insurance and licensure, to enable sale of hospital as going concern. Represented secured lender to operator of national space exploration and aeronautics camps and related facilities in Florida and California. When operations halted in post-9/11 tourism decline, engineered judicial foreclosure of facilities and exercise of Article 9 remedies to take title to all real and personal property, including intellectual property, and negotiated lease alternate. Publications: A Qualified Academic Freedom Privilege in Employment Litigation: Protecting Higher Education or Shielding Discrimination? 11/01/1987
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