Profile

Chip Ford has 18 years of experience representing creditors in all aspects of commercial debt collection and loss mitigation, including loan restructuring, bankruptcy and litigation to enforce remedies such as foreclosure and receivership. His clients include major national and regional banks, CMBS special servicers and purchasers of distressed debt.

Mr. Ford also advises and represents clients from a wide range of industries on all aspects of the bankruptcy process, including the purchase and sale of assets under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, Chapter 11 plan confirmation, the assumption and rejection of contracts and the defense of preference and fraudulent transfer claims.

Mr. Ford serves as the Practice Leader for Parker Poe’s Creditors’ Rights & Financial Restructuring Group.

Experience Highlights

• Represented a national CMBS special servicer in the resolution of more than $100 million in distressed loans secured by hotels, retail centers, industrial facilities and apartment projects in North Carolina
• Represented national and regional banks in the resolution of hundreds of millions of dollars in distressed commercial mortgages and other loans
• Served as lead counsel to a major national automotive retail chain in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of General Motors and Chrysler
• Served as lead counsel to a major national utility service provider in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Lehman Brothers
• Handled the defense of over 25 bankruptcy preference cases involving total claims in excess of $10 million – clients paid an average of only 5% of the amount claimed

News

• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Chambers USA 2012 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 7, 2012
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Chambers USA 2011 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 10, 2011
• Chambers USA 2010 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 11, 2010
• Twelve Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2010
  January 4, 2010
• Chambers USA 2009 Recognizes Parker Poe As Leading Law Firm
  June 12, 2009
• Ordinary Course Of Business, Extraordinary Times
  Law 360
  February 26, 2009
• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• Bankruptcy Filings Surge in Downturn
  Charlotte Observer
  August 13, 2008
• Chambers USA 2008 Recognizes Parker Poe Among America's Leading Lawyers
  June 16, 2008
• Federal Tax Liens / Tenancy by the Entireties
  Bankruptcy Alert
  July 3, 2002
• Understanding “Preferences” - Can Your Bankrupt Customer Recover Payments Made to You?
  February 18, 2002

Events & Speaking Engagements

• American Bankruptcy Institute's Litigation Skills Symposium, Faculty Member
  May 2011
  
• American Bankruptcy Institute's Litigation Skills Symposium, Faculty Member
  May 2008
  
• American Bankruptcy Institute's Litigation Skills Symposium, Faculty Member
  May 2007
  

Memberships

• Mecklenburg County Bar Leadership Institute
  Class of 2004
• American Bankruptcy Institute
  Member