Paige (Barr) Tinkham

Paige concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. Paige represents lenders, debtors, unsecured creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, investors and lessors in a wide variety of in-court and out-of-court workout, restructuring and reorganization matters and in various commercial finance matters. She is admitted to practice in Illinois and Michigan. Professional Affiliations: Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy Institute and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and past member of: Commercial Law League of America’s Bankruptcy Section Executive Council, Young Members’ Section Executive Council and Bankruptcy Section Legislative Committee, and the Bankruptcy Section Legislative Committee’s National Education Committee. Speaking Engagements: “Reduction, Disallowance and Disgorgement of Fees as a Means of Discipline” at the Commercial Law League of America, New York Conference (2006). Publications: Manual of Credit & Commercial Laws, National Association of Credit Management (2004-2007), Assistant Editor. “Protecting Professional Fees from Disgorgement: Obtaining Carve-Outs from Secured Creditors,” XXV-5 Am. Bankr. Inst. J. (June 2006), Co-author. “Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: What Your Clients Want to Know About the Business Provisions,” Debt³ (May/June 2005). Commercial Law & Practice Guide, Lexis-Nexis, Matthew Bender & Co. (2004 & 2005), Contributor. NextWave: The Double Edged Sword, 2 DePaul Bus. Com. L.J. (2004). “Non-Dischargeability for an Intentional Tort Requires the Actor Intend the Consequences of the Act, Not Simply the Act Itself,” Com. L. League of Am. Bankr. Sec. Newsletter (Feb. 2004). The Facts & Fictions of Bankruptcy Reform, 1 DePaul Bus. & Com. L.J. 361 (2003), Co-author. Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.