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Ryan K. Cochran: Lawyer with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Ryan K. Cochran

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Practice Areas

  • Finance and restructuring
  • Trial and appellate litigation
  • Construction litigation
  • Construction agreement negotiation and drafting
  • Public and private companies
  • Financial services and banking
 
University Auburn University, B.S., 1997; Member, Curia Honoris, academic honor society
 
Law SchoolCumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2000; Editor in Chief, Cumberland Law Review
 
Admitted2000, Alabama; Tennessee; Supreme Court of Alabama; Supreme Court of Tennessee; United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits
 
BornHouston, Texas, June 5, 1975
 
BiographyRyan Cochran is a partner at Waller Lansden and practices in the areas of corporate restructuring, financial services and construction law. Mr. Cochran represents banks, financial institutions and specialty lenders in both the restructuring of and in litigation related to their nonperforming loans. Mr. Cochran currently represents the indenture trustee in connection with litigation against Jefferson County, Alabama related to defaults of more than $3,200,000,000 in pledged revenue bonds issued to fund capital improvements to Jefferson County's sewer system and $120,000,000 in general obligation bonds. The litigation against Jefferson County has resulted in the appointment of a receiver to take over control of the county's sewer system. Mr. Cochran's involvement in the area of construction law includes construction-related dispute resolution and the negotiation of construction-related agreements. Additionally, Mr. Cochran is certified as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) by the Green Building Certification Institute. The LEED AP credential indicates that Mr. Cochran has an understanding of the U.S. Green Building Council's "green building" practices. Mr. Cochran was a contributing author to, the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry's treatise on construction insurance published in 2011. Clerkships and Previous Affiliations: Law Clerk to the Honorable Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama: Externship to the Honorable Tamara O. Mitchell, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama; Associate, Walston Wells Anderson & Birchall, LLP, Birmingham, Alabama. Professional Activities: Member, Alabama, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; Member, American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry; Member, Division 12-Owners and Lenders of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry; Member, Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel; LEED Accredited Professional (AP); Member, American Bankruptcy Institute, Bankruptcy Litigation Section; Member, Turnaround Management Association; Participant, National Institute of Trial Advocacy Trial Skills Program. Articles: 5/5/2011, Owner's Field Guide to Risk Transfer Provisions in Modern Day Design and Construction Contracts; 5/15/2009, Ryan Cochran, Bobby Guy and Katie Stenberg, "Antitrust Concerns May Block Section 363 Sales," Journal of Corporate Renewal, May 2009
 
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Ryan K. Cochran
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
511 Union Street, Suite 2700
Nashville, TN 37219-1760




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