DAREN R. BRINKMAN - PARTNER dbrinkman@brinkmanlaw.com |
| DAREN BRINKMAN practices in the
area of bankruptcy, commercial law, secured transactions and workouts. Mr. Brinkman handles all aspects of commercial and bankruptcy
litigation in federal and state courts. Prior
to forming Brinkman & Associates, Mr. Brinkman was a partner with Blakeley
Brinkman & Rallis LLP. Before that, Mr. Brinkman was a bankruptcy and
creditors' rights attorney with Adams, Duque & Hazeltine and with the
Dallas, Texas based Andrews
& Kurth. Mr. Brinkman received his undergraduate degree in Economics
from Brigham Young University, where he was a Hinckley Scholar. He received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, at the
University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with an estimated class
rank in the top third of his class.
Mr. Brinkman has represented secured and unsecured creditors in all manner of operating company and real estate contexts.In his early years, Mr. Brinkman primarily represented asset-based lenders in documenting original loans and workouts involved in asset-based loans and in documenting LBO’s. His practice then shifted to bankruptcy and commercial litigation related to creditor’s rights. Mr. Brinkman’s lending experience has assisted the firm in its analysis of the validity of secured lenders’ security documentation and in the documentation of sales and loan restructures from the Committee perspective as part of Chapter 11 cases. His litigation expertise guides the firm in its representation of committees when they take a lead role in the prosecution of avoidance actions and other litigation matters. Mr. Brinkman also speaks frequently to trade groups regarding debtor-creditor law, and has published a number of articles including, “The Revised Uniform Commercial Code Changes Unsecured Creditors’ Rights in Sales and Secured Transactions: Is the Revised UCC “New and Improved or Just New,” Business Credit, September 1998; “Dealing With the Apparent Agent,” Credit Today, August 1998; “Holding Factors Liable for the Vendor’s Client Risk: Who Bears the Risk When a Vendor’s Customer Defaults,” Credit Today, December 1998; “Buying Assets Out of Bankruptcy: Procedural Hurdles to Bargain Bonanza,” Business Credit, October, 1998;“The New Value Exception to the Absolute Priority Rule After Ahlers,” 106 Banking Law Journal 351 (1989); “Ethical Considerations for Bankruptcy Trustees and Debtors in Possession,” (presented at National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Annual Conference, 1989); “Was Your Product Used to Improve Real Property Without Paying You? The Overlooked Remedy of Mechanics and Materialmens Liens,” Business Credit, September 1997. Mr. Brinkman is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Credit Control Management. |