William T Bodoh

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With over 475 lawyers across mid-America, Frost Brown Todd offers a deep, talented roster of legal professionals covering commercial transactions and real estate; business and corporate law; environmental; intellectual property; labor and employment; litigation; and business succession planning. The firm operates throughout 10 offices in five states including Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia.

We leverage technical, industry, and legal knowledge and hands-on experience to serve a diverse client base, from global multinationals to small, entrepreneurial companies. Our industry teams integrate that powerful network of legal talent and business experience to provide strategic, comprehensive services across our regional platform.

Bankruptcy and Restructuring

In a continually volatile economic market, bankruptcies remain a difficult reality. For those affected, the need for effective legal representation is critical. We find practical solutions to restructuring matters, possessing a broad range of experience in the fields of creditors' rights, insolvency, workouts, corporate reorganizations and corporate liquidations. After reviewing the facts and needs of each situation, we formulate and help our clients implement the best strategy, whether that is to litigate the case, seek a negotiated settlement or structure a bankruptcy reorganization.

Frost Brown Todd handles matters involving all aspects of federal bankruptcy law as well as a full range of matters arising under state laws relating to commercial and real estate finance transactions, creditors' rights, insolvency, workouts, restructurings, business reorganizations and receiverships.

They offer practical advice and strategies for a successful workout, restructuring or bankruptcy reorganization by taking advantage of our firm's experience in tax, securities, banking, insurance, environmental, healthcare, corporate, real estate, labor, e-commerce, technology and employment law and litigation.

Providing sound counsel and advice
* Structuring transactions with regard to bankruptcy considerations
* Alternatives and strategies for dealing with financially troubled third parties
* Secured, partially secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases and other proceedings in Federal Bankruptcy Courts throughout the country
* Asset-based lenders and real estate lenders regarding foreclosures, workouts and restructurings outside bankruptcy, including structuring and implementing asset swaps, asset sales and new, additional or restructured debt financing or investment
* Lenders in providing debtor in-possession and plan financing in Chapter 11 cases
* Shopping center and office building developers and managers in tenant and department store bankruptcy and reorganization cases
* Student loan guarantors in claims and plan objections as well as non-dischargeability actions
* Special counsel for debtors in-possession, trustees and creditors' committees providing a full range of business law issues
* Stays against lien enforcement, setoffs, preferences, fraudulent conveyances, leveraged buyouts, equitable subordination, lender liability and assumption or rejection of leases and executory contracts
* Buyers of businesses in bankruptcy reorganizations, or debtors in possession in selling businesses (Both commonly referred to as Section 363 sales)

Certified Business Bankruptcy Specialist - American Board of Certification

William T Bodoh
Frost Brown Todd LLC
1 Columbus #2300
10 W Broad St
Columbus OH 43215
Tel: 614 559-7252
Fax: 614 464-1737
E-mail: wbodoh@fbtlaw.com

Practice Areas
* Bankruptcy and Restructuring
* Corporate/Business

Concentration
* Bankruptcy
Creditors’ Rights

Judge Bodoh joined Frost Brown Todd LLC on January 5, 2004 as Counsel in the Firm’s Columbus, Ohio office. Judge Bodoh was initially appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio on June 10, 1985 and began a second 14-year term on June 9, 1999. He served as Chief Judge for the Northern District of Ohio from July 1, 2001 until December 31, 2003. He also served as a Judge on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to his appointment to the Bench, he was a partner at the law firm of Manchester, Bennett, Powers & Ullman Co., LPA in Youngstown, Ohio, Corporate Staff Attorney for The East Ohio Gas Company in Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant Operations Counsel of Capital Finance Corporation of Columbus, Ohio and an Assistant Attorney General of Ohio.

Judge Bodoh is a former President of Ohio State's Moritz College of Law Alumni Society and has served on The College of Law’s National Council since 1971. Judge Bodoh was a member of The Ohio State University Alumni Association’s Alumni Advisory Council from 1986-1992, serving as its Chair in 1990-1992 and was a member of the Board of Directors of The Ohio State University Alumni Association in 1990-1992. In 2002, he was honored with the William K. Thomas Distinguished Jurist Award conferred by the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University. He is a frequent lecturer on trial, constitutional and bankruptcy subjects and has written extensively on constitutional and bankruptcy issues for various law journals. He is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University, where he teaches complex Litigation and Chapter 11 corporate Reorganization.

Judge Bodoh is nationally known for his expertise in steel industry cases and has been called, “The Judge of Steel”. His decisions have guided the bankruptcies of LTV Steel Company, Inc., Phar-Mor, Inc., Concord Steel, WCI Steel, CSC, Inc., and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation to name a few. His understanding of both labor-management relations, environmental issues, and complex massive proceedings have made him a magnet for some of the largest bankruptcy filings in the nation.