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College: Oklahoma State University
Law School: University of Texas at Austin
Admitted to the State Bar of Texas in: 1990
Practice Area(s):
Insolvency and Creditor RightsProfile:
Mr. Taylor, a senior counsel of the Firm, practices in the Insolvency & Creditor Rights Section. He has substantial experience in large Chapter 11 business bankruptcy proceedings, representing debtors, creditors' committees, individual creditors and bankruptcy trustees in a wide array of bankruptcy litigation, insolvency matters and related disputes.
Scope of Practice:
Pre-bankruptcy workouts and restructurings, reorganization proceedings, adversary cases, and virtually all other business bankruptcy and insolvency matters.
Recent Representations:
Successfully defended defendants in large preference avoidance actions filed in Hechinger Investment Company of Delaware, Payless Cashways, Bill's Dollar Stores, Ames Merchandising and numerous other bankruptcy cases.
Represented Chapter 7 trustees and liquidating plan trustees in prosecution of preference avoidance actions and collection of estate assets.
Represented debtor publicly traded company and twelve affiliated roll-up debtor entities, resulting in sale of thirteen companies in a 120-day period.
Represented committees of unsecured creditors in four separate Chapter 11 casino insolvency cases in Mississippi.
Represented debtor automotive parts manufacturer with operations in Texas, Mississippi and Mexico in Chapter 11 proceeding.
Represented Chapter 11 debtor home alarm systems monitoring company in Texas, including prosecution and settlement of $1 billion claim against another debtor in bankruptcy in New York.
Professional Affiliations:
Dallas Bar Association.
Admissions:
State Bar of Texas; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas.
Publications:
Hon. Barbara J. Houser and Robert J. Taylor, "Review of the Circuits: Fifth Circuit Review," Norton Bankr. L. Adviser (March 1995); Hon. Barbara J. Houser and Robert J. Taylor, "Pre-Bankruptcy Planning Using State Law Exemptions," 389 PLI/Real 153 (1993).
Education:
University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1990; Oklahoma State University, M.B.A., 1980; Oklahoma State University, B.S. in Business Management, 1979. | 