John E Murdock III

Practice Areas

Banking and Financial Services, Corporate and Securities, Private Equity, Distressed Investing, Real Estate Finance and Development, Private Companies, Home Health and Hospice, Capital Markets and Corporate Finance

Career

John's practice exercises his extensive experience in the deployment and recovery of debt and equity capital and in commercial law. His practice includes business formations, acquisitions and dispositions, distressed asset investing, private equity transactions, commercial and real estate mezzanine lending, commercial lending, creditor's rights, loan workouts and recoveries, lender liability, securitizations, the Uniform Commercial Code, and commercial and business organizations law generally. His clients cover a wide range of different industries, including automotive, banking, commercial finance, commercial real estate, construction, entertainment, information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, publishing, restaurant, specialty lending, and other industries.

In his core capital deployment and recovery activities, his practice emphasizes the use of loan-to-own strategies, enterprise foreclosures, purchases under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, and other creative strategies to recover and create value related to distressed enterprises on behalf of original lenders and distressed asset investors.

Professional Memberships

Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar associations; Board of Advisors for the Lender Liability Law Report; International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law; Project Management Institute; Board of Advisors for the Lender Liability Law Report (A.S. Pratt & Sons); Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, Past Director