Benjamin A. Kahn

Benjamin Kahn focuses his practice is the areas of bankruptcy law and commercial litigation. Mr. Kahn is certified as a Specialist in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification and by the Board of Legal Specialization of the North Carolina State Bar.

Mr. Kahn has represented creditors' committees, individual secured and unsecured creditors, guarantors, lessors, debtors, trustees, and others in numerous bankruptcy cases under Chapters 7, 11, 12 and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina and other jurisdictions including Delaware, the Southern District of New York, South Carolina, and Mississippi.

Publications and speaking topics: 

• Someone Filed Bankruptcy?  No Problem, I'm a Construction Lawyer, North Carolina and South Carolina Bar Association Annual Construction Seminar, Wild Dunes, South Carolina, 2007
• Various Issues Related to the Treatment of Non-Residential Real EstateLeases in Bankruptcy, Including BAPCPA Revisions, 28th Annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar, May, 2007. 
• Panelist, The Three Deadly D's-- Disclosure, Disinterestedness & Disgorgement: How to Get What You Earned and Keep What You Got!, American Bankruptcy Institute Spring Seminar and Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2006
• Local Rules Update, Twenty-Seventh Annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar, 2006
• Allowance, Payment and Disgorgement of Professional Fees in Administratively Insolvent Chapter 11 Cases, 27th North Carolina Bar Association Bankruptcy Institute, 2006 
• Enforceability of Covenants Against Competition in the North Carolina Bankruptcy Courts, 26th North Carolina Bar Association Bankruptcy Institute, 2005
• Ethics -- The Engagement and Retention of a Client, 23rd North Carolina Bar Association Bankruptcy Institute, 2000
• Ethical Considerations in Bankruptcy, Twenty-First Annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar, 2000
• Case Update, Eighteenth Annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar, 1997
• Case Update, Seventeenth Annual Middle District Bankruptcy Seminar, 1996

• Board Certified Specialist in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification and North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization
• Named among North Carolina's "Legal Elite" by Business North Carolina (2006, 2007)
• North Carolina "Super Lawyer" for Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights Law
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of North Carolina, Honorable Jerry G. Tart, Chief Judge, Law Clerk
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of North Carolina, Honorable Catharine R. Carruthers, Law Clerk
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of North Carolina, Local Rules Committee Member
• North Carolina Bar Foundation - Course Planner for the 21st Annual Bankruptcy Institute
• North Carolina Bar Association Bankruptcy Section Council - Strategic Planning Subcommittee, Bankruptcy Manual Contributing Author, Section Secretary (2002-2003)

Carolina Blue Enterprises, Inc. (representation of primary creditor/franchisor of restaurant chain)

JA Jones (bankruptcy counsel for co-surety and various creditors)

SEC vs. Elfindepan, S.A. et al. (attorney for SEC receiver)

Foster Utilities, Inc. (representation of surety)

Travelers Inns of Charlotte, Inc. (representation of Special Servicer for primary secured lender)

Convenience USA (representation of creditor, lessor and guarantor group)

FAMCO, Inc. (representation of creditors' committee)

Midway Airlines (representation of commercial lessor of large equipment and representing Chapter 7 Trustee)

PSINet.com, Inc. (representation of advertising agency creditor)

US Mortgage (representation of owner of serviced loans)

• Seven Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers"
• Seven Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers"
• Ben Kahn Earns National Certification in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law
  Benjamin A. (Ben) Kahn, a Member (partner) in Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier’s Greensboro office, has successfully completed the requirements for national certification in both business and consumer bankruptcy law.
• 6 Attorneys Named Among NC's "Legal Elite"
  Business North Carolina magazine has named six attorneys from Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier’s Greensboro office to its “Legal Elite” listing, an honor bestowed by the publication on less than 5 percent of the state’s lawyers.
• Six Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Legal Elite"
  Business North Carolina magazine has named Six attorneys from Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier to its list of the profession's "Legal Elite," an honor bestowed by the publication on just 3 percent of the state’s lawyers.

• The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 - Unlocking the Mystery