Lisa P. Sumner, Esq.

Lisa P. Sumner is a member of Nexsen Pruet’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group in its Raleigh, N.C., office. Throughout her years of practice in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, she’s represented financial institutions, private equity and trade creditors in out-of-court matters, bankruptcy proceedings and litigation in state and federal courts. Ms. Sumner’s representative engagements include distressed loan workouts, collections, appointing receivers, involuntary bankruptcy petitions, contested chapter 11 and 12 plan confirmations, § 363 sales, and defending preference and fraudulent-transfer actions and lender-liability claims. The varied industries involved in her cases include commercial real estate, retail, manufacturing, construction, agricultural and health care. Ms. Sumner received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991 and her J.D. from Duke University in 1994.