Edwin G. Rice

Edwin G. Rice is counsel with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Tampa, Fla., where his practice focuses primarily in the areas of banking and insolvency. He has represented lenders, lessors, trustees, committees and debtors in chapter 11 cases, and he has legal experience in mortgage foreclosures, workouts, lending transactions, lending-related litigation and assignments for the benefit of creditors. Mr. Rice’s bankruptcy experience includes the defense and prosecution of preference actions, fraudulent transfer actions and other avoidance actions, claims litigation, dischargeability actions, relief-from-stay litigation, valuation litigation, contested confirmations, director and officer claim litigation, lease assumptions and rejections, bankruptcy sales and debtor-in-possession financing. Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, he is a past president and chairman of the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association and is recognized by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers of America and Super Lawyers. Mr. Rice received his B.S.B.A. in 1987 from the University of Florida and his J.D. in 1990 from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.