Andrew G. Edson

Experience

Financial Services

• Advises lenders and equipment lessors in bankruptcy filings and out-of-court workouts to protect and preserve collateral
• Represented lenders in conducting UCC Article 9 sales of inventory and equipment
• Represented equipment lessors in obtaining adequate protection payments and/or relief from the automatic stay to repossess and liquidate collateral
• Represented private equity entities in the purchase of bankruptcy estate assets through Section 363 sales.
• Represented a non-profit hospital client in a complex Chapter 11 case in addressing significant secured debt and governmental liability.

Energy

• Advises international manufacturers to protect inventory, assert claims, and negotiate plan terms in all types of energy bankruptcies
• Obtained full payment of claim in Section 363 sale of oil & gas bankruptcy debtor
• Represent international energy company with treatment of crude production and lubricants contracts in bankruptcy cases
• Successfully defended former officers and directors of a Chapter 11 oil and gas debtor from fiduciary claims.
• Represented companies in efforts to eliminate decommissioning liabilities implicated in bankruptcy cases
• Represent seismic data company to protect intellectual property and contract rights in oil and gas bankruptcies

Real Estate

• Regularly conduct foreclosures as substitute trustee
• Prepare substantive consolidation opinions for REIT transactions
• Successfully represented a lender in a valuation determination of real property
• Protect franchisor rights and property when franchisee seeks bankruptcy protection
• Advised a national lender and servicer with real estate portfolios on numerous matters in the resolution of title issues and title litigation

• Co-author with Bob Franke and Audrey Hornisher, Bankruptcies in the Crypto Industry, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (May 2023)
• Supreme Court Holds that Mere Retention of Property Does Not Violate the Automatic Stay, Bankruptcy Law Section of the State Bar of Texas Newsletter (March 2021)
• “New Bankruptcy Law Designed to Help Small Businesses,” by Andrew Edson, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (April 2020)
• Co-author with Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale and Shannon McKelvie, New Bankruptcy Law Designed to Help Small Businesses, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (April 2020)
• BANKRUPTCY UPDATE: New Requirements & Deadlines for Proofs of Claim, Strasburger’s Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy Newsletter (March 2018)
• Co-author with Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale, Executory Contracts and Leases in Bankruptcy, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (July 2016)
• The Automatic Stay: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (August 2015)
• Costly Mistake: UCC-3 Termination Statements Effective Regardless of Intent, Strasburger Lenders Alert (May 2015)
• Co-author with Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale, A Primer on Fraudulent Transfer Actions in Bankruptcy Court, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (May 2014)
• Co-author with Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale. Bankruptcy Fundamentals: Preferences and Defenses, Commercial Law World Magazine (April/July 2014)
• Incomplete Description of Collateral in the Financing Statement May Negatively Impact Priority and Bankruptcy Rights, Strasburger Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy News Alert (January 2014)
• Motive Matters? Not to the Fifth Circuit When Impairing a Class of Creditors, Strasburger Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy Newsletter (April 2013)
• Co-author with Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale, Preferences in Bankruptcy Cases, or Do I Really Have to Give the Money Back?, Federal Lawyer (January/February 2013)
• Co-author with Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale, A Primer on Preferences, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (Summer 2012)
• Supreme Court Summary of Schwab v. Reilly, FBA Bankruptcy Section Newsletter (Summer 2010)
• ​Road Block: The U.S.-Mexico Trucking Dispute, Law and Business Review of the Americas (July 2010)

• Co-Presenter, Secured Creditor’s Remedies and Protecting Assets in Bankruptcy, Troy, Michigan (January 2020)
• Panelist, What’s the Plan: Chapter 11, Starting Out Right Program, Young Lawyers Committee for the State Bar of Texas Bankruptcy Section (October 2017)
• Panelist, What the Kardashians Can Teach Us About Bankruptcy: Recent Fraud Cases, DBA Bankruptcy & Commercial Law Section Meeting (June 2016)
• Panelist, 2011 Bankruptcy Case Law Update, DBA Franchise & Distribution Law Section Meeting (March 2012)