Mr. Daniel F. Blanks

Daniel F. Blanks is a partner and vice chair of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Jacksonville, Fla., where he focuses on bank- ruptcy, financial restructuring, distressed-asset acquisitions, creditors' rights, commercial workouts, consumer financial litigation and commercial litigation. He is experienced in representing corporate debtors, official and unofficial committees of creditors or equity-holders, asset-acquirers, plan ad- ministrators, liquidating trustees, secured lenders, creditors, and other stakeholders in a variety of business chapter 11 cases, as well as foreign trustees in chapter 15 proceedings. In addition, he has defended multiple defendants in class-action and single-plaintiff lawsuits brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act and comparable Florida state laws regarding consumers. Mr. Blanks is admitted to practice in Florida, New York and Virginia, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of New York. A frequent writer and speaker, he was named in "Virginia Rising Stars" for Bankruptcy & Creditor/ Debtor Rights in Super Lawyers for 2008 and 2009, and was named to the "Top Forty Under 40" in the Hampton Roads Business Journal in 2008. Mr. Blanks received his B.A. in government from The College of William & Mary in 1996 and his J.D. cum laude in 2002 from the University of Richmond, where he served on the editorial board of the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology.