Ms. Lisa A. Epps

Lisa A. Epps is a partner with Spencer Fane LLP in Kansas City, Mo., where she guides business owners in transactions, opportunities and legal issues that can arise throughout the life of their businesses. She specializes in corporate law, commercial and contract law, sales and acquisitions, business workouts, restructuring, creditors' rights, cybersecurity and data breaches. She also helps lenders in loan structuring, negotiating and drafting transaction documents, and regulatory compliance. Ms. Epps has represented debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bond trustees, bondholders, investors, bankruptcy trustees, and creditors' and equity-holders' committees in complex corporate restructuring, workout and bankruptcy planning, negotiation and litigation both locally, regionally and nationally. She is skilled in complex business issues, has represented large corporations in chapter 11 restructuring and brought multiple companies out of bankruptcy. Ms. Epps is an advisory board member of the ABI/UMKC Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute, founder and co-chair of IWIRC's Midwest Network, and a member of the Bench Bar Committees for the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Kansas and the Western District of Missouri, ABI, the Kansas City Bankruptcy and Kansas Bar Associations, the Central Exchange and the Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City. She has also been featured in Best Lawyers â?? Women in the Law 2016 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, received the Missouri Lawyers Weekly 2015 Women's Justice Award â?? Business Practitioner, and listed in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers for 2012-15, Kansas City Business Journal Best of the Bar from 2010-15, and The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law from 2012-17. Ms. Epps is admitted to pracrice in Missouri and Kansas, and before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Kansas, the Western District of Missouri and the Eastern District of Missouri, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Tenth Circuits. She received her B.A. in 1991 magna cum laude from The American University and her J.D. in 1997 from the University of Kansas School of Law.