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TOM HELPS HIS CLIENTS ADDRESS PROBLEMS INVOLVING DISTRESSED CREDIT SITUATIONS, RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE FINANCE AND OTHER BANKRUPTCY AND COMMERCIAL LENDING MATTERS.
Tom is a partner and former co-chair of Dorsey’s Finance and Restructuring Practice Group. His practice focuses on representing creditors in bankruptcy and out-of-court restructurings and representing providers of mortgage warehouse finance facilities. Prior to his return to law practice in 2008, Tom was the Senior Credit Officer for Default Management for GMAC-RFC’s warehouse lending and correspondent loan purchase businesses. Tom also has extensive experience in all forms of commercial finance, including leveraged acquisitions, asset-based financings, syndicated lending facilities, subordination agreements, purchases and sales of financial assets, and other credit-related transactions.
Experience
Client Achievements
Representative Work
- Represented SUPERVALU INC. in restructuring $2.5 billion bank credit facilities.
- Represents Lighthouse Management, as general receiver, in connection with a receivership sale of a biomass power plant in Benson, MN.
- Represents Portigon AG, f/k/a West LB, in defending a Ponzi scheme claw-back action in the Petters bankruptcy case.
- Represented U.S. Bank National Association in connection with the collapse of Denny Hecker’s auto dealership network, including Hecker’s personal bankruptcy and the bankruptcy of Advantage Rent-a-Car.
- Represented U.S. Bank in the successful out-of-court liquidation of Opus Northwest, a major real estate owner and developer.
- Represented U.S. Bank in the liquidation of various mortgage warehouse and servicing customers in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
- Represented U.S. Bank in the bankruptcy of The Dolan Company.
- Represents various Dorsey corporate clients, including Apogee Enterprises, Inc., Pella Corporation and Christopher and Banks, in connection with bank credit facilities.
- Represented U.S. Bank, as Agent, in connection with syndicated credit facilities to Polaris Industries, Inc. and McGladrey, LLP.
- Represents Heartland Financial and its member banks in a variety of credit and regulatory matters, including the acquisition of Freedom Bank as part of the liquidation of River Valley Bancorp.
- Represented various clients in the settlement of repurchase and indemnity claims made by Fannie Mae.
- Represents U.S. Bank in connection with numerous mortgage warehouse Master Repurchase Agreements.
News & Resources
Articles
January 2021
March 28, 2016
August 18, 2015
February 6, 2015
June 10, 2014
November 19, 2013
July 24, 2013
October 6, 2008
News & Press Mentions
September 19, 2022
October 14, 2020
October 3, 2019
July 29, 2019
December 21, 2018
August 29, 2018
August 15, 2018
April 18, 2016
January 28, 2016
Events & Speaking Engagements
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
September 27, 2021
December 8, 2020
April 30, 2019
October 4, 2018
October 4, 2018
December 17, 2015
Select Presentations
- Panel Chair, "The State of the United States Banking System," 2015 Minnesota Real Estate Journal Real Estate Capital Markets Conference – April 30, 2015
- "Warehouse Lending from A to Z – Part Two," Mortgage Bankers Association (Webinar) – March 31, 2015
- "Warehouse Lending from A to Z – Part One," Mortgage Bankers Association (Webinar) – March 24, 2015
- "Credit Risk Retention: The Brave New World of Securitization" (with Charles Sawyer), Bank Counsel Roundtable Presentation – October 28, 2014
- "What Every Lawyer Should Know About Bankruptcy," Dorsey U – June 18, 2014
- "6 Things Every Business Lawyer Should Know About Dodd-Frank," 2014 Business Law Institute – May 5, 2014
- "What Every Lawyer Should Know About Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code," Dorsey U - March 4, 2014
- "Partnership and LLC Issues in Bankruptcy," 2013 Bankruptcy Institute - October 8 & 9, 2013
Industries & Practices
Financial Services Regulatory
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- Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
- Corporate Trust Services
- Financial Services Regulatory
- Lending Transactions
- Mortgage Banking
- Securitization
Professional & Civic
Professional Achievements
- Co-Chair, UCC and Commercial Finance Committee of the Business Law Section, Minnesota State Bar Association, 2008-present
- Board of Director, Turnaround Management Association (TMA) Minnesota Chapter
- Member, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy
- Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
Community Involvement
- Center of the American Experiment
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, 2014-present
- Senior Fellow and Director, 2009-13
- Candidate, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, 2002
