Mr. Mark G. Stingley

Mark G. Stingley is the global head of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights Client Service Group at Bryan Cave LLP in Kansas City, Mo. He represents a number of lending institutions in litigation and insolvency matters, and has represented several commercial and lending clients in real estate and commercial litigation cases in both state and federal courts in a number of jurisdictions na- tionally. Mr. Stingley is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, for which he serves as co-chair of education for the Eighth Circuit Fellows, and he was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Missouri â?? Kansas City School of Law from 2007-16, where he taught a course on debtor/creditor rela- tions. In addition, he has contributed to chapters in two Thomson Reuters books, Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses and Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, and is co-editor of ABI's How Secure Are You? Secured Creditors in Commercial and Consumer Bankruptcies. He further has co-authored a chapter in the Missouri CLE Desk Book on Bankruptcy entitled "Executory Contracts and Leases," and spoken many times on bankruptcy for the Commercial Finance Association, ABI and the American Bar Association's Business Law Section. He has served as the education director for ABI's Secured Credit Committee, sits on ABI's Executive Committee, and was on the board of the Turnaround Management Association's Missouri affiliate from 2005-15. In 2016, he was one of the authors of the newly enacted Missouri Commercial Receivership Statute. Mr. Stingley was one of 130 professionals, academics and judges appointed nationally to one of the 10 advisory committees that reported to ABI's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, for which he served on its Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases Committee. He also served annually as co-moderator of ABI's Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute from 1992-2014. Mr. Stingley further has been listed annually as "Best of the Bar" in Kansas City, a Super Lawyer in Missouri and Kansas, and in The Best Lawyers in America. He has also been annually listed as one of the top 100 lawyers in Missouri and Kansas and as one of the top 50 lawyers in Kansas City, and in 2017 he was named one of the top 10 lawyers in Missouri and Kansas. Mr. Stingley received his B.S. from William Jewell College and his J.D. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.