Mr. Paul Anthony Giordano

Paul A. Giordano is a partner with Roetzel & Andress, LPA in Fort Myers, Fla., and is Practice Group Manager for Business Litigation. He handles a variety of business, commercial and banking litigation, with a special focus on bankruptcy & creditors' rights, troubled-debt restructuring, workouts and related litigation, partnership disputes, commercial foreclosures, contract and corporate disputes, construction liens, and general and professional-liability lawsuits. He regularly assists national, regional and com- munity banks in stabilizing distressed commercial and industrial properties, from negotiating pre-fore- closure agreements to advocating for the appointment of receivers and judicial sales. He also has experi- ence in insurance-coverage litigation, as well as jury and nonjury trial practice. Mr. Giordano is active in several bankruptcy-related professional organizations, including the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar As- sociation, the Bankruptcy Legal Education Series Foundation Inc. (for which he served as treasurer from 2014-15 and president and chairman of the board from 2013-14), and the Southwest Florida Bankruptcy Professional Association, where he served as President in 2014. He has received professional accolades for his work in bankruptcy and has been named by Florida Trend as one of the "Legal Elite" for Bank- ruptcy & Workout (2013 and 2016), in The Best Lawyers in America for Litigation - Bankruptcy (2018), by Florida Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" in Bankruptcy (2011-13) and in Florida Super Lawyers (2015-17), and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Giordano received his B.A. in 1995 from the University of Florida and his J.D. in 1999 from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.