Jessop
& Company’s attorneys bring a wide array of experience to every bankruptcy
and reorganization representation.Together, we have acted as counsel to businesses of all sizes and in
many different industry segments.We represent
debtors-in-possession, bankruptcy trustees, creditors committees, liquidating
agents, lenders, asset purchasers, creditors and a variety of other clients in
reorganization and liquidation proceedings around the nation.This breadth of experience allows Jessop
& Company to understand the issues not just from a complex legal perspective
but from a practical business oriented approach.Further, we approach each engagement with a
thorough understanding of the practical interests, strengths and weaknesses of
each stakeholder.
Among
the many cases and transactions in which Jessop & Company has been involved
are:
·Counsel for Energy Fuels Exploration Company and
Energy Fuels Limited, the largest uranium mining companies in the U.S., in
connection with their Chapter 11 cases.These cases were consolidated with the bankruptcy case of their owner,
Oren L. Benton.Debt ranged from $500
million to over $1 billion.
·Counsel for KG Retail Stores, Inc., a men’s
clothing retailer, in connection with its Chapter 11 case and emergency sale of
91 retail stores.
·Counsel to the City and County
of Denver in connection with DenverInternationalAirport.He has represented Denver in over fifteen major airline
bankruptcies throughout the nation.Mr.
Jessop obtained over $3 million in the Western Pacific Airlines bankruptcy and
was an active member of the creditors committee.He is currently representing the City’s
interests in the UAL bankruptcy in Chicago, Illinois, the Midway bankruptcy in Raleigh,
North Carolina, the TWA bankruptcy in Wilmington, Delaware and
the Kitty Hawk Air bankruptcy in Ft.
Worth, Texas.
·Counsel to the City and County
of San Francisco in connection with
the San FranciscoInternationalAirport.Mr. Jessop was the designated member for San
Francisco on the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee for the UAL bankruptcy
for three years.Jessop & Company
continues to represent the City in various other bankruptcies across the
country.
·Special Counsel to the City of Phoenix in connection with its airport system
and all bankruptcy and insolvency matters including response planning and
strategies.
·Counsel for various municipal airports in
connection with bankruptcy matters including the City of Chicago, City of
Sacramento, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Pitkin County,
Colorado, Port of Portland, Port of San Diego, Port of Seattle and the City and
County of San Francisco.
·Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel for Univance
Telecommunications, Inc. and Univance Marketing Group, Inc., a small
telecommunications company based in the Denver Metro area and operating in all
48 continental states.
·Counsel to a variety of dot.com and telecom
companies in connection with out of court settlements and workouts.
·Counsel for MSHOW.com, Inc., an internet web
conferencing company, in connection with its Chapter 11 case and reorganization.
·Counsel for Western Integrated Networks, LLC
d/b/a WinFirst, a telecommunications “overbuilder” based in Sacramento which
was building a fiber optic network to deliver telephony, data and video in connection
with its Chapter 11 case and reorganization.
·Counsel to Polydyne International, Inc., in
connection with its chapter 11 case.Polydyne was a fraudulent investment company with over $20 million of
German creditors.Jessop & Company
successfully investigated the assets of the company and the actions of the
former principals despite confusing and incomplete business records.The Firm also assisted German authorities in
their investigations which resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of the
former president.Ultimately, the
company was successfully reorganized with trade creditors receiving 100% payout
plus interest and the investor creditors receiving 60% of a new company set up
to own and develop the remaining real estate asset.
·Counsel to Blue Bear, LLC, in connection with
its chapter 11 case.Blue Bear was
another fraudulent investment company with over $18 million of investor
creditors.Jessop & Company
successfully investigated the assets of the company and the actions of the
former principals despite the state of its records.Jessop & Company won the trust of the
creditors and successfully confirmed a plan of reorganization for the
company.Litigation is still ongoing.
·Counsel for Philips Credit Corporation, the
leasing subsidiary of Philips N.V., in connection with equipment leases in
numerous hotels around the country.
·Counsel for the chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee of
George N. Gillett, Jr.Jessop &
Company administered, investigated and liquidated a diverse portfolio of assets
(with aggregate values in excess of $500 million) including interests in a
bank, an equipment leasing company, television stations, a radio station, a
fixed base operation in Vail, a magazine, the largest cattle ranch in North
America and a horse ranch in California.
·Counsel for Sony Electronics, Inc., in
connection with the enforcement of equipment leases in the Denver area.
·Counsel to the chapter 7 trustee of The Stuart
James Company, Inc., the largest U.S. penny stock broker at the time of its
demise in 1990.This case started one
year after shut-down with no known assets available to creditors.Through detailed investigation and intensive
litigation, the Firm recovered over $3.1 million for the benefit of creditors
resulting in a dividend of over 55% to unsecured creditors.
·General Counsel for Tecmar Technologies
International, Inc., a high tech data storage company traded on the Oslo Stock
Exchange.This representation arose out
of the successful representation of its predecessor, Rexon Inc., in its Chapter
11 case.During this representation, Mr.
Jessop gained an intimate knowledge of the day-to-day operations and issues of
a large corporation with multiple subsidiaries and directed the liquidation of
companies in England, Germany and Singapore.Ultimately, Mr. Jessop directed the sale of
Tecmar and its remaining subsidiaries pursuant to an emergency sale in their
own Chapter 11 cases in Delaware.
·Counsel for FNRS Financial Corporation, a
mortgage servicing company, in its Chapter 11 case.
·Counsel to various financial institutions in
connection with bankruptcy matters including Farmers State Bank of Calhan, Key
Bank of Wyoming, Montegra Capital Resources, Inc., National Westminster Bank USA and
NationsBank.
Mr.
Jessop is the founder and head of Jessop & Company.He represents numerous business entities in a
broad range of transactions, restructurings, bankruptcies and bankruptcy
litigation.Because of his diverse
experiences, Mr. Jessop often brings a fresh, creative approach to difficult,
complex situations.His style blends
diplomacy and practicality with incisive legal knowledge to reach the desired
goal.
Mr.
Jessop is a frequent lecturer and writer on bankruptcy law issues.He is an author of the Bankruptcy Chapter and
Annual Updates for the Krendl Colorado
Methods of Practice for over ten years.He practiced commercial law, corporate and municipal finance and
bankruptcy at large Denver
firms prior to forming the firm in 1991.
Mr. Jessop
graduated from the University
of Colorado in 1973 with
a Bachelor of Arts degree and in 1975 with a Master of Arts degree.He received his Juris Doctorate degree, magna cum laude, from BostonCollegeLawSchool
in 1983.While in law school, Mr. Jessop
was both the Solicitations Editor and an Articles Editor for Boston College Law Review, inducted as a
member of the Order of the Coif (a legal honor society) and Alpha Sigma Nu (a
Jesuit honor society) and graduated second in his class.After graduation, Mr. Jessop was an attorney
at the Denver
law firms of Sherman & Howard where his practice emphasized municipal finance
and Davis, Graham and Stubbs where his practice emphasized corporate
bankruptcy.In 1987, Mr. Jessop was an
assistant professor of law at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas.He is a member of the American Bar
Association (Business Law Section), the American Bankruptcy Institute, the
Turnaround Management Association, the Colorado Bar Association and the Denver
Bar Association.He has been on the
board of advisors for the annual ABIRockyMountain
bankruptcy conference for the past eight years.
ALICE A. WHITE
As a former in-house corporate attorney for a
Fortune 500 company, Ms. White brings to her practice an intimate understanding
of the needs of corporate clients.Ms.
White’s practice focuses on insolvency and corporate transactions.She was admitted to the Pennsylvania
bar in 1984 and the Colorado
bar in 1985.She received her A.B.
degree in 1974 with General Honors from Rutgers - The State University, DouglassCollege,
became a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1974, and received her J.D. degree in 1983
with Honors from the NationalLawCenter
at The George Washington University.Prior to Jessop & Company, she was in-house counsel for AMAX Inc.,
Golden, Colorado.She is a co-author of “Removal of an Operator
From a Mining Joint Venture,” which was published in the proceedings of the
Thirty-Seventh Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, 1991.Her professional affiliations include
membership in the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Colorado Women’s Bar
Association.Ms. White is very active
with community service organizations, and served as a member of the Jefferson
County Cultural Council (SCFD) for six years, as well as serving with other
organizations.She is currently a board
member of the Colorado Mountain Club and the Colorado Mountain Club
Foundation.She joined Jessop &
Company in 1997.
J. BRIAN FLETCHER
Mr.
Fletcher joined Jessop & Company as an Associate in 2002 and practices in
business and bankruptcy law.Mr.
Fletcher received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Northern Colorado in 1990.He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1997
from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon,
where he was elected to the Order of the Barristers for his moot court
participation and membership.Prior to
joining Jessop & Company, Mr. Fletcher worked at Sherman & Howard, LLC
from 2000 to 2002 where he assisted with several large telecommunication
mergers.He is a member of the American
Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Business and ADR Sections and Denver
Bar Association.He was Secretary of the
ADR Forum Committee during 2001.
Ms.
Handley joined Jessop & Company as an Associate in 2005. She was born
in Layton, Utah,
on October 15, 1979 and admitted to the Colorado
bar in 2005. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002 and her Juris Doctor
degree in 2005 from the University of Denver College of Law. While
attending law school, Ms. Handley clerked for Chief Judge John P. Leopold,
Judge William B. Sylvester, both of the 18th Judicial District of
the State of Colorado,
and Chief Judge Sidney B. Brooks of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
District of Colorado. Ms. Handley is currently a member of the American
Bankruptcy Institute, Colorado Bar Association and the Denver Bar
Association.
Ms.
Howe joined Jessop & Company as an Associate in 2006.Born and raised in Bingham Canyon, Utah, Ms.
Howe was admitted to the Colorado bar in 2006.She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California,
Berkeley in
2001 and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado School of Law
in 2006.While attending law school, Ms.
Howe was a founding member of the Construction and Real Estate Law Association,
clerked for Jessop & Company and served as a research assistant for Professor
Paul Campos.Ms. Howe is currently a
member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Colorado Bar Association.
Ms.
Cutler joined Jessop & Company as an Associate in 2006 and practices
bankruptcy and general litigation.She
received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and Political
Science, magna cum laude, from Queens University of Charlotte (North Carolina)
in 1990.She received her Juris Doctor
degree, with honors, in 1993 from the University of North Carolina School of
Law, Chapel Hill.During law school, Ms.
Cutler served as a staff member of the North Carolina Law Review and a member
of the National Moot Court team.After
law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank W. Bullock, Jr.,
United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.She then worked seven years in private
practice, emphasizing business bankruptcy and business litigation.After moving to Colorado in 2000, Ms. Cutler
served as staff attorney and law clerk for the United States Bankruptcy
Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit and law clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth
E. Brown, United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado.
