Frank focuses his practice on providing strategic advice to clients in a wide variety of financially troubled situations. Frank has represented distressed companies, equity owners, secured lenders, trade creditors and other constituents in out-of-court restructurings, chapter 11 reorganizations and receivership proceedings, and he routinely represents purchasers in section 363 sales, Article 9 sales, and distressed debt acquisitions. Frank has also defended creditors and equity owners against fraudulent transfer, preference, and breach of duty claims.
Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Frank served as an associate with the Pittsburgh office of a Michigan-based regional law firm, where he gained significant Chapter 9 experience having assisted with the representation of a major creditor group in connection with the City of Detroit’s bankruptcy case. Prior to entering private practice, Frank served as law clerk to the Honorable Judith K. Fitzgerald in the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania, District of Delaware, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
At the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Frank served as Articles Editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and was awarded both the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence and the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Gerald K. Gibson Award for outstanding performance in bankruptcy law.
Experience
- Representation of a major automaker in several distressed supplier workouts.
- Representation of the principals of a bankrupt coal company against claims of breach of fiduciary duty, recharacterization, and other avoidance actions.
- Representation of the seller of a bicycle company in a going concern sale to its former ownership.
- Representation of a major financial institution in its capacity as administrative agent in an out-of-court workout of a national hairstyling business.
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2023, 2024, 2025
Selected for inclusion in America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Pennsylvania, Chambers USA, 2024
Named to “Pennsylvania Rising Stars,” Bankruptcy: Business, Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2014-2020
- Author, Fifth Circuit: Make-Whole Premiums Should Be Disallowed in Bankruptcy, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 14, 2022
- Author, 3rd Circuit Holds Post-Confirmation, Pre-Effective Date “Claims” Dischargeable in Bankruptcy, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 15, 2021
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University of Pittsburgh School of LawJD
magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Articles Editor, University of Pittsburgh Law Review
2010 -
The Ohio State UniversityBAHistory
cum laude
2005
Member, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, Allegheny County Bar Association
Member, Turnaround Management Association
- Speaker, "Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection: Resolving Complex Issues in Business Reorganizations," The Knowledge Group Live Webinar, September 20, 2022
- Speaker, Allegheny County Bar Association Bankruptcy Symposium, 2020, 2022
- Speaker, "Top Consumer Cases of the Year," PBI 17th Annual Bankruptcy Institute, September 2012
- Hon. Judith K. Fitzgerald, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2011-2013