Benjamin Court

Benjamin J. Court is a partner with Stinson LLP in Minneapolis and works with equipment finance organizations, secured creditors, statutory and judgment lienholders, banks, asset-buyers, real property lessors, lenders, loan-servicers, receivers, trustees and creditors’ committees. His experience includes personal property leasing, bankruptcy and restructuring matters, secured transactions, distressed asset acquisitions and workout scenarios, consensual property lien and judgment-enforcement situations, insolvency proceedings and complex financial services litigation. Mr. Court is particularly focused on representing equipment-leasing and finance organizations, and he is well-versed in Articles 2A and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He has documented numerous lease and loan transactions for captive, bank-affiliated and independent equipment finance companies, and he has successfully enforced their rights in lawsuits, mediations, arbitrations, and bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings. Mr. Court is admitted to practice in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, and he routinely advises lenders, creditors and committees in chapter 7, 11 and 12 bankruptcies. He serves as outside counsel for a number of agribusiness lenders in the U.S., providing practical advice regarding workouts, foreclosures, enforcement matters, secured transactions and intercreditor relationships. In addition, he regularly defends lenders and loan-servicers in a wide variety of contested matters, including claims of wrongful foreclosure, fraud, and breach of contract, as well as alleged violations of RESPA, TILA, FCRA, TCPA, FDCPA and other consumer-protection laws. Mr. Court received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.