Chasless L. Yancy
Associate
Chasless Yancy's practice combines bankruptcy restructuring and litigation with financial transaction work and commercial litigation. She represents clients throughout the United States in in- and out-of-court corporate restructuring and reorganization as well as the defense of various bankruptcy litigation adversary actions and commercial litigation. Bankruptcy clients include debtors and debtors-in-possession, secured and unsecured creditors, committees and Chapter 7 and liquidating trustees. Litigation clients include corporations in the oil and gas, construction and natural gas industries, as well as individuals. Chasless also served as a volunteer prosecutor for the City of Houston.
Representative Experience
Recently, Chasless has worked on the Chapter 11 cases of Scholl Forest Industries, Inc., Gulf Coast Oil Corporation and its affiliates, Kitty Hawk Airlines and 2600 Park Living, Ltd. Chasless has also represented priority and secured creditors including a major financial institution and a worldwide restaurant franchisor in the Chapter 11 bankruptcies of Lyondell, Lehman Brothers, Flying J. Inc., Drake Printing Corporation and P.O.W.E.R., LLC.
Publications
- District Court Overturns the TOUSA Fraudulent Transfer Ruling The Banking Law Journal (March 2, 2011)
Events
Co-Author
- "Choice of Venue: Does the Creditor Have Any Voice in the Choice?" (co-author with Hugh M. Ray), 76th Annual Meeting, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Chicago, Illinois (October 2002)
- “A Way Out-of-Town Lawyer’s Guide to Wilmington Bankruptcies” (co-author with Hugh M. Ray, Peter S. Goodman and Richard Baumfield), 2001 Spring Meeting, ABA Section of Business Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2001)
Speaker
- "The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005" (with Robin Russell and John Sparacino) State Bankers Association telephone seminar (June 2005)
