Michael Bargar

Michael J. Bargar is a partner in the Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights and Financial Restructuring practice of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP in Atlanta, where he represents trustees, creditors and debt-ors in all aspects of bankruptcy. With experience counseling trustees, he handles fraudulent-transfer and preferential-transfer lawsuits, as well as other avoidance actions arising under chapter 5 of the<br>Bankruptcy Code. Trustees also look to Mr. Bargar for his advice in connection with § 363 asset sales, including sales of patents, motor vehicles, oil and gas wells, and improved and unimproved real properties. In February 2018, the U.S. Trustee appointed him to the Chapter 7 Panel of Trustees for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, a role in which he continues to serve. Mr.Bargar has experience representing creditors in bankruptcy matters and has successfully obtained stay relief for both mortgagees and landlords, as well as obtained judgments for creditors by prosecuting complaints to determine the dischargeability of debts. He files proofs of claim in chapter7, 11 and 13 cases, and he defends against objections to proofs of claim, including objections to claims arising from the post-petition rejection of leases. He also works with individual and corporate debtors in chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy cases, as well as individual and corporate debtors in loan workouts. In conjunction with his practice, Mr. Bargar is a Barrister of the Georgia BankruptcyAmerican Inn of Court, and he is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Prior to attending law school, Mike worked at National City Bank and then at his alma mater, Ashland University, where he received his B.A. He received his M.B.A. in banking and finance from Case Western ReserveUniversity and his J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where he was executive notes and comments editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal. He also received the EmoryUniversity School of Law Transactional Law and Skills Certificate and the Dean’s Award for Out-standing Performance in Mergers and Acquisitions.