Leland Murphree

Practice Areas

Insolvency & Financial Law Group

Career

J. Leland Murphree is Special Counsel in the Firm’s Nashville office and a member of the Insolvency and Financial Law practice group. Mr. Murphree represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, fiduciaries, investors, indenture trustees, and bondholders, in a wide range of complex disputes and distressed matters. He represents the interests of U.S. and foreign clients in Chapter 11 and Chapter 9 bankruptcies, receiverships, and other insolvency proceedings, as well as out-of-court restructurings, workouts and liquidations across the United States and internationally. He has experience in all areas of bankruptcy and insolvency and has significant experience with state and federal receiverships, the purchase and sale of distressed assets in bankruptcy and receiverships, distressed investing and transactions, post-petition financing, extra-judicial remedies, and complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation, including lender liability, preferential transfer, fraudulent transfer and other avoidance actions.

Mr. Murphree has a wide range of experience involving complex financing and investment structures and handles matters with unique restructuring issues, including higher education, healthcare and senior living, agribusiness, government contracts, energy, construction, public finance, tax credit investments, and factoring and asset-based lending.