TAMPA, FL— McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that leading financial services attorney Edmund Whitson has joined the firm’s Creditors’ Rights, Financial Restructuring, and Bankruptcy group as a member (partner). Resident in Tampa, Ed focuses his practice on complex legal matters spanning the corporate life cycle, from transactions and commercial litigation to creditors’ rights disputes, workouts, and related matters.
Ed has considerable experience representing banks, receivers, and financial institutions in asset recovery, asset sales, and fraudulent transfer litigation. He has particular knowledge of syndicated loans and synthetic leasing deals, and also works with insurance companies and private equity groups in this area. In connection with structured finance deals, Ed prepares true sale opinions for Bankruptcy Remote Entities (BREs) and defends lenders in fraudulent transfer litigation in bankruptcy and state courts.
