Megan W. Murray

Megan W. Murray is a founding shareholder of Underwood Murray PA in Tampa, Fla., and has nearly 20 years of reorganization and workout experience advising business owners, debtors, trustees, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and asset-purchasers and sellers. She has experience both on the legal side and business side in a global financial institution, and she counsels businesses and owners in a wide variety of industries, including but not limited to real estate, health care, hospitality, pharmaceutical, medical services, construction, insurance, transportation, logistics, aviation and financial services. Ms. Murray also has experience representing a variety of fiduciaries, from chapter 7 and 11 trustees to assignees in assignments for the benefit of creditors and receivers in proceedings across the state. In addition to her broad range of representations in core bankruptcy matters, she counsels her clients in making critical business decisions, while prosecuting and defending complex business disputes. She has experience in director and officer liability litigation, bondholder disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, court-appointed receiverships, health care receiverships, assignment proceedings, recovery of large and small business assets, and lien priority disputes related to a variety of collateral, including real property, equipment, medical equipment, aircraft and logistics-related assets. Ms. Murray has been recognized in Chambers USA, Florida Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America, and she was named a Florida Trend Magazine “Legal Elite.” She is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale- Hubbell, and she is a 2018 honoree of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program. Ms. Murray received her B.B.A. from the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business in 2002 and her J.D. with honors from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2011, where she was a contributing editor to the Iowa Law Review and an ABI Medal of Excellence recipient.