Graham's practice in the Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy practice group focuses on commercial and bankruptcy litigation. He has experience in commercial reorganizations and workouts, as well as transactional and litigation experience involving commercial transactions, receiverships, real estate and other business-related matters. He has represented debtors, trustees, unsecured and secured creditors in Chapter 11 cases. Graham has also represented financial institutions, commercial lenders, commercial lessors and lessees in bankruptcy cases and structured loan workouts. Graham is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Bar Association, the Turnaround Management Association, the National Funding Association, the Atlanta Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia.
Graham's practice in the Financial Services and Mortgage practice groups has been an equal mix between litigation in the alphabet soup of federal laws related to mortgages (TILA, HOEPA, ECOA, FCRA, CRA, FHA, RICO, RESPA, FDCPA) and other related causes of action and ensuring compliance with these same statutes in current or future markets. Graham attended the Mortgage Bankers Association Regulatory Compliance Institute held from July 19 through 22, 2004 and, after passing the final examination, was awarded a Certificate of Completion.
In 2011 and 2012, Graham was named as a leading practitioner in Bankruptcy/Restructuring by the highly regarded Chambers USA, a legal directory featuring client-led intelligence on America's leading lawyers for business. Since 2007, Graham has been named in the Georgia Super Lawyers - Rising Stars Edition in Atlanta magazine. The lawyers chosen as Rising Stars represent approximately 2.5 percent of the best up-and-coming attorneys in the state as voted by their peers based on their personal observations. Additionally, Graham was selected as one of Georgia Trend's "2010 Legal Elite."
Graham graduated from The Westminster Schools in 1991. Graham received his B.A. in Economics from Washington University at St. Louis in 1995, his J.D. from Georgia State University School of Law in 1999, and his LL.M. in Bankruptcy from St. John's University in 2000.
Publications/Presentations
Loan Workouts and Receiverships, Lorman Loan Workout and Collateral Liquidation in Georgia seminar, March 4, 2011
Understanding the Instant Impact of IUE-CWA Corp. v. Visteon Corp. (In re Visteon Corp.), ExecSense webinar, October 20, 2010
Forbearance: An Option For Borrowing Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 1, 2009
Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Few Million? An Overview of DIP Financing and Its Tension Points, Secured Lending Seminar, Institute of Continuing Education in Georgia, February 24, 2006
Liabilities for Lenders and Others Arising Out of the Deepening Insolvency Decisions, Business Law Institute, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, October 21-22, 2004
Recent Developments in Bankruptcy, Workouts and Lender Liability Secured Lending Seminar, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, November 21, 2003
Northern District of Alabama Practice regarding (1) Preference Defenses of Contemporaneous Exchange for New Value, Ordinary Course of Business and Subsequent Advance of New Value and (2) Requirement of Expert Testimony to Satisfy 'Ordinary Business Terms' Requirement, Birmingham Bar Association Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section Newsletter, Spring 2003
How to Treat Straddle-Year Income Taxes in a Chapter 11 Reorganization, 9 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 467, Winter 2001
Memberships & Bar Associations
American Bar Association
State Bar of Georgia
Atlanta Bar Association