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Francis X. Buckley, Jr.

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Frank’s practice in the firm’s Financial Restructuring group includes bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring negotiations and creditors’ rights litigation. He counsels the firm’s clients and publishes and conducts seminars on numerous bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues, including replevin, foreclosure under the Uniform Commercial Code, executions, enforcement of secured claims and environmental and real estate issues in bankruptcy proceedings.

He has represented lenders and creditors bankruptcy and insolvency cases and in repossession and foreclosure matters involving all types of personal property and real property. He has successfully orchestrated numerous replevin actions throughout the Midwest, recovering machinery, equipment, farm implements and inventories of metal goods and marine products. Frank has extensive experience in representing lenders to motor vehicle dealers in replevin cases and self-help repossessions, as well as Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. He has supervised and conducted the repossession and foreclosure of vehicles from single location dealers, as well as multiple location "mega" dealers. Additionally, Frank has counseled floorplan lenders concerning the disposition of motor vehicle inventory through private or public sale.

American Bar Association
American College of Bankruptcy
Commercial Law League of America
Executive Council, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section (2006-Present)
The Missouri Bar
Chair, Commercial Law Committee (1997-2000)
Illinois State Bar Association
The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Co-Chair, Bankruptcy Committee (1989-1990)
Bankruptcy Practice Memorial Fund, Eastern District of Missouri
Chair (2005-2007)
St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association
United Way of Greater St. Louis
Day Care Allocations Panel (1997-2000)
Alexandra Ballet Company
Vice President (2004-2005)
Member (2003-present)
Ag Star Financial Services Corporation
AT&T Inc. (formerly SBC Communications, Inc.)
Chrysler Financial Services Americas LLC
Daimler Financial, d/b/a Freightliner Financial
First Bank
Ford Motor Credit Company
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Key Equipment Finance
National City Bank
PNC
Textron Financial Corporation
U.S. Bank National Association
Wells Fargo Auto Finance
Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)
Named Best Lawyers’ 2011 Chicago Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year
Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy, 2006
2001 Michael R. Roser Excellence in Bankruptcy Practice Award
Awarded by the Missouri Bar
“Secured Claims in Bankruptcy” 5 Mo. Bankruptcy Practice (MoBar) (1992)
“The Missouri Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act” 50 J. Mo. Bar 89 (1994)
Fraudulent Transfer Avoidance, Corporate Dissolutions and “Receiverships to Satisfy Creditors’ Claims and Lis Pendens” 7 Mo. Creditors’ Remedies (MoBar 5th ed. 1999)
“Creation of Security Interests” 29 Commercial Law and Practice Guide (Mathew Bender & Co., 1999)
Francis X. Buckley, Jr.
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
United States District Court Eastern District of Missouri
United States District Court Western District of Missouri
United States District Court Northern District of Illinois
United States District Court Central District of Illinois
United States District Court Southern District of Illinois
United States District Court Northern District of Indiana
Saint Louis University School of Law
J.D., cum laude (1983)
Managing Editor, Saint Louis University Law Journal
Saint Louis University
B.S. in B.A. (1980)
Thompson Coburn LLP
Managing Partner, Chicago Office (2007-Present)
Partner (1992-Present)
Associate (1985-1991)
Hon. J.D. Trabue, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Illinois
Law Clerk (1983-1985)
Missouri (1984)
Illinois (1983)