Christine L. Myatt

Christy Myatt represents a wide variety of banking and financial institutions on real estate, construction, development and tax credit lending transactions and in workouts, debt restructuring and bankruptcy.

She further has extensive experience representing trustees, creditor's committees, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bondholders, guarantors, and others in numerous bankruptcy and workout cases in North Carolina, the Southern District of New York and Delaware.

Ms. Myatt has served as a receiver in various state and federal matters on behalf of various creditors and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Published Works:

• Collection of Attorney's Fees Under Section 506(b) (Co-Author), 9th Annual North Carolina Bankruptcy Institute, 1986
• Use, Sale and Lease of Collateral and Post-Petition Financing (Co-Author), National Business Institute, 1988
• An Overview of Surety and Bankruptcy Law (Contributing Author), Defense Research Institute, 1990
• Discharge, Dischargeability, Redemption and Reaffirmation (Author), 12th Annual North Carolina Bankruptcy Institute, 1989
• Leases v. Secured Transactions: Recognizing a True Lease (Author), Hot Topics for the Business Lawyer, 1989
• Creditor Strategies in Chapter 11 (Author), Bankruptcy Seminar for the Middle District of North Carolina, 1989
• Practical Administration in Small Business Bankruptcy (Author), Greensboro Bar Association, 1991
• Liens and Credit Issues (Co-Author), National Business Institute, 1992
• Bankruptcy and the Secured Creditor (Author), National Business Institute, 1994
• Classification of Claims and Interests - Judicially-Created Chaos (Author), 17th Annual North Carolina Bankruptcy Institute, 1994

• Board Certified: Bankruptcy Law, North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization
• Business Bankruptcy Law, American Board of Certification
• Clerked for the Honorable James B. Wolfe, Jr., formerly Chief, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina
• North Carolina Bar Association - Bankruptcy Section, Chair (2004-2005) Vice Chair, Council (1991-1994); Business Law Curriculum Committee, Former Chair
• North Carolina State Bar - Board of Legal Specialization, Chair (1997-1998)
• American Bar Association - Member, Standing Committee on Legal Specialization (2005-2007)
• Greensboro Bar Association - Young Lawyers Division, President (1990-1991)
• Named among North Carolina's "Legal Elite" in bankruptcy law by Business North Carolina
• North Carolina "Super Lawyer" for Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights Law

Lead counsel in various lending transactions involving hotel construction, senior housing, tax credits, veteran housing construction and apartment construction in North and South Carolina.

SEC v. Elfindepan, SA. et. al, MDNC (appointed receiver to pursue recovery of approximately $42 million assets lost in Ponzi scheme by over 2000 U.S. and foreign investors)

Bostic Construction and related real estate entities (guarantor representation involving over $100 million liabilities resulting from bankruptcy of large southeast construction company)

EZ Serve Convenience Stores (local counsel for secured creditor owed in excess of $174 million by 475 multi-state convenience store chain)(C-11)

Burlington Industries (landlord representation for assumption and assignment of corporate office to W.L.Ross entity)(C-11)

Council Craftsman, Inc. (represented unsecured committee in sale of assets. Anticipated distribution to unsecured creditors is approx. 21%)(C-11)

US Furniture Industries (represented debtor in out-of-court liquidation/ 100% distribution to creditors except disputed landlord claim)

Hickory White Company (committee representation resulting in multi-million dollar sale of assets and distribution of 25% to unsecured creditors) (C-11)

Anderson, et al. v. Brokers, Inc. (In re Brokers, Inc.), 363 B.R. 458 (Bankr. M.D.N.C. 2007)

Crown Financial Ltd., 183 B.R. 719 (Bankr. M.D.N.C., 1995)