Patricia K. Burgess is a partner at Frost Brown Todd LLP in Nashville, Tennessee. She chairs the ?rm’s Mobility (Automotive) Industry Team and leads the ?rm’s representation relating to troubled automotive suppliers, including large supplier and automotive bankruptcies, and supply chain risk- management matters.
Ms. Burgess has guided individual and corporate debtors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as well as workout negotiations outside of court, across a spectrum of industries, including logistics companies, automotive suppliers, franchises, real estate investors, restaurant owners, manufacturers, communication companies, and coal companies. Ms. Burgess assists secured lenders in protecting and recovering their collateral whether through workout and forbearance, self- help remedies, state or federal court litigation, or bankruptcy proceedings. She also assists secured and unsecured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, landlords, utilities and purchasers of assets in both complex commercial bankruptcies, as well as large and small individual Chapter 11 cases.
When not helping in the distressed arena, she also counsels businesses of varying sizes engaged in complex commercial disputes, such as breach of contract, negligence, fraud, misrepresentation, tortious interference, successor liability, business ownership, control and governance issues, mineral trespass and energy-related disputes, franchise disputes, and violations of various state and federal statutes. In addition, she mediates complex commercial disputes.
Ms. Burgess has been listed in The Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers (2020-2024), is a top-rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America,® Commercial Litigation. She is a member of ABI (Southeast Conference Advisory Board; Education Director for the Emerging Industries and Technology Committee), International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (KIT Network board), Southern Automotive Women’s Forum (board member; treasurer), and was previously board member for the Tennessee Automotive Manufacturing Association.