Bankruptcy

Commercial Lending

Commercial Finance

Corporate Reorganizations

Corporate Restructurings

Creditor Rights

Sale and Lease Transactions

Finance Committee, Chair

• Indiana, 1996
• Kentucky, 1997

• Law Clerk, William C. Lee, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Indiana

• Indiana University School of Law, J.D., 1996, magna cum laude
• • Federal Communications Law Journal
• • Order of the Coif
    
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  Wabash College, A.B., 1993, magna cum laude
  
• University of Lancaster, England, no degree, 1992

Ted is a member of the Firm, practicing in the Indianapolis, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky offices and participates in both the Firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring and commercial transactions practice groups. He was honored to be included in the most recent edition of  The Best Lawyers in America^® for his outstanding reputation and distinguished work in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law and was recently selected in Kentucky Super Lawyers^® in Banking and in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights an award to lawyers in the top five percent of their fields.  Ted was also recently selected by Business First of Louisville Newspaper as a "40 under 40" - one of the 40 young leaders under the age of 40 who have demonstrated that they are playing and will continue to play a vital role in the Louisville community. He is a member of the Leadership Louisville Class of 2010.  He is certified as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist by the American Board of Certification.

In bankruptcy matters, he represents debtors, creditors, and committees in insolvency proceedings. He assists clients in complex business bankruptcy matters - developing plans of reorganization and advising on strategies to maximize recoveries for clients at all stages of the bankruptcy process. Some of his recent engagements include co-counsel for the Debtors in the Jillian’s Entertainment Holdings, Inc. bankruptcy case and co-counsel for the Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors in the Buehler Foods, Inc., the Critical Access Health Services Corp. and Summitt Logistics Chapter 11 cases. Ted is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy conferences.

In transactional matters he concentrates in all aspects of financing and secured transactions, leasing, structured financings, workouts and reorganizations, and general corporate practice. His experience includes conduit transactions, secured and unsecured financing transactions, acquisition and working capital financings, leveraged buyout transactions, ESOP loans, project and asset based transactions, senior and subordinated debt transactions, private placements, letter of credit transactions, loan participations, subordination and intercreditor agreements, credit enhancements, rate swaps and other hedging devices, construction and permanent real estate financing. Ted has extensive experience and expertise in Uniform Commercial Code matters as well written counsel opinions for loan transactions.

He helps manage the Firm's New Markets Tax Credit Practice and the Firm's New Markets Tax Credit Consulting Business.  This includes work for community development entities, tax audit interests, leverage lenders and borrowers (QALICBs) in New Markets Transactions.

Prior to joining Frost Brown Todd LLC, Ted clerked for William C. Lee, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Indiana. In law school, he was a Senior Notes Editor for the Federal Communications Law Journal and a research assistant for Professor William J. Hicks, revising the multi-volume treatise Exempt Transactions Under the Securities Act of 1933.

• Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Super Lawyers® 2009-2011
• The Best Lawyers in America® 2007-2012
• AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

• Kentucky Bar Association
• Indiana State Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Member

• Friends of the Louisville Zoo, Board of Directors, 2002-present
• Jewish Community Center, Board of Directors, 2001-2007
• Kentucky Bar Foundation, Board of Governors, 2007-present
• Leadership Louisville, Class of 2010
• American Board of Certification, Board of Directors, 2008-present