Highly responsive and results-focused solutions
Jason Curry partners with clients to meet all their debt-related needs. He focuses on distressed debt solutions, including workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy reorganizations, creditor’s rights litigation and appeals. Jason also represents lenders and borrowers in non-distress commercial loan transactions, with an emphasis on real estate and C&I loans. He has extensive experience representing:
- Institutional lenders and commercial debtors in implementing workout and restructuring solutions.
- Financial institutions and borrowers in documenting and closing real estate and commercial loan transactions.
- Secured creditors and commercial debtors in navigating and achieving bankruptcy-related goals.
Jason is highly responsive to his clients’ needs. He has the unique capability to represent his clients in the full life cycle of a loan, from initial documentation and funding to all aspects of the distress loan sequence. His legal approaches and solutions are always aligned with a client’s business purposes, and he focuses on delivering insightful, cost-effective solutions.
Jason is a former assistant United States attorney, where he represented the U.S. in a variety of defensive litigations, including medical malpractice, torts, bankruptcy, water law and Administrative Procedure Act appeals.
Experience in Action
- Represents lending institutions and debtors in commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases throughout the United States.
- Represents national lending institutions and borrowers in complex loan restructurings.
- Represents institutional lenders and borrower in commercial real estate loan transactions.
- Represents commercial debtors and committees in bankruptcy restructurings.
- Represents commercial loan obligors to deliver cost-effective opinion letters.
- Represents debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders in connection with DIP financing proceedings.
- Represents creditors in collections litigation, receivership actions and foreclosures.
- Represents both prosecution and defense of preference and fraudulent transfer claims on behalf of national lending institutions and as special counsel for bankruptcy trustees.
Successes
- Represented agent in connection with $100 million syndicated loan facility to a transmitting utility enterprise.
- Represented institutional lender is $65 million term loan secured by senior housing facility.
- Represented developer-borrower in $45 million construction loan for housing development.
- Represented borrowers and lenders in connection with multiple C&I and real property loans in California, Oregon, Texas, Ohio, Arizona and other states.
- Represented a Catholic diocese on a successful reorganization and bankruptcy exit in six months with minimal administrative costs.
- Represented a large private lender in a multijurisdictional, complex loan enforcement matter, involving a receivership, foreclosure, guaranty litigation, defense of alleged counterclaims and several appeals.
- Represented small business debtor in a successful Subchapter V bankruptcy case that resulted in a fully consensual plan confirmation.
- Represented a secured creditor in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy that resulted in full pay plan treatment.
- Represented a secured creditor in receivership action that resulted in the successful sale of collateral and distribution of substantial proceeds to creditor.
- Represented a creditor in a successful fraudulent avoidance action and foreclosure related to stock in a marijuana dispensary.
- Represented secured creditors in fair market value evidentiary hearings where the court adopted the secured creditors’ values.
- Represented a judgment creditor in collection of multiple million-dollar judgments in multiple jurisdictions.
- Represented an international borrower group in providing a complex opinion letter on transaction and non-consolidation issues.
Capabilities
Professional Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in America® (2020-present: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
- Southwest Super Lawyers® "Rising Stars" (2015-2016: Bankruptcy: Business)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Federal Bar Association, Arizona Chapter, board member
- American Bankruptcy Institute Southwest, advisory board member
- Feed My Starving Children
- Maricopa County Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section
- Turnaround Management Association
- Risk Management Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Former certified principal and teacher (K-12)
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Education
- Texas Tech University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2008)
- Order of the Coif
- Texas Tech Law Review, Vol. 40, comment editor
- Texas Bank Lawyer, editorial board (2007–2008)
- Arizona State University (M.Ed., 2005)
- University of New Mexico (B.S., 1999)
Bar Admissions
- Arizona
Court Admissions
- Federal District Court, District of Arizona
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit