James Blake Bailey

James B. Bailey is a partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Birmingham, Ala., and has experience with both debtor and creditor representation in bankruptcy, out-of-court workouts and restructurings, and bankruptcy-related litigation. He also regularly represents commercial lenders and mortgage servicers in federal court commercial litigation. Mr. Bailey has represented chapter11 debtors including Walter Energy, Inc. in Alabama and Vanguard Healthcare, LLC in Tennessee, which have involved numerous complex issues, including the termination of employee and retiree benefits and going-concern sales free and clear of claims. He also has chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy experience as one of the attorneys representing Jefferson County, Ala., in several contested matters and adversary proceedings that involved issues unique to chapter 9. Mr. Bailey’s creditor bankruptcy practice involves representing commercial lenders in business bankruptcy cases under chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and in individual cases of commercial loan obligors under chapters 7, 11 and 13. This representation has recently involved several mortgage-servicing clients in bankruptcy courts. He also represents creditors in substantive bankruptcy litigation, including proceedings that involve preferences, fraudulent transfers, relief from stay and lien-avoidance issues. His bankruptcy litigation experience includes appeals to both district courts and appeals courts. Outside of bankruptcy, Mr. Bailey has transactional experience negotiating and document-ing out-of-court workouts. He has experience pursuing pre- and post-judgment creditor remedies, including receivership and receiver sales, nonjudicial foreclosures and garnishments, and he has commercial litigation experience pursuing judgments against defaulting commercial loan obligors.Mr. Bailey co-authored ABI’s Construction Issues in Bankruptcy. He received his B.A. in political science and B.S. in finance cum laude in 2005 from the University of Florida and his J.D. in 2010from the University of Virginia School of Law.