Riester, Michelle Cruz

Dan Doyle has spearheaded successful efforts to restructure financially distressed clients throughout the country, led creditor and retiree committees in major bankruptcy cases, and represented major institutional leasing and finance companies in prosecuting claims against debtors.

His major legal representation has included:

• Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation 401(k) plan participants/class action plans
• Landreth Lumber Co./Jacksonville Wholesale Co., S.D. Ill. (committee counsel)
• Falcon Furniture Inc., E.D. Mo. (committee counsel)
• Popular Leasing litigation, Mo. Cir. Ct. (joint defense counsel)
• Solutia Inc., S.D. N.Y. (committee counsel)
• Falcon Creditor Trust (counsel to liquidation trustee)
• Wire Rope Corporation, W.D. Mo. (debtor’s counsel)
• Atchison Castings Inc., W.D. Mo. (committee counsel)
• Rocor Transportation International, W.D. Okla. (debtor’s counsel)
• Dick Simon Trucking, Inc., D. Utah (debtor’s counsel)

He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and is chairman of the bankruptcy and creditor rights section of the Transportation Lawyers Association. He is on the advisory board of the Denver University Transportation Law Journal. Dan edited the section of Norton Bankruptcy Law & practice (2007) dealing with retiree benefits in bankruptcy cases, while serving as lead bankruptcy counsel for the Official Committee of Retirees in the Solutia Inc. case in New York City.

Prior to joining the firm, Dan worked for a decade as a bankruptcy lawyer in one of Missouri’s largest law firms. Before enrolling in law school, Dan was an investigative journalist at two Memphis newspapers.