Patricia K. Burgess

Patricia K. Burgess is a partner at Frost Brown Todd LLC in Nashville, Tenn. She chairs the firm’s Mobility (Automotive) Industry Team and leads the firm’s representation relating to troubled automotive suppliers, including large supplier and automotive bankruptcies, and supply chain risk management matters. Ms. Burgess guides individual and corporate debtors in chapter 11 bankruptcy, as well as workout negotiations outside of court, across a spectrum of industries, including logistics companies, automotive suppliers, franchises, real estate investors, restaurant owners, manufacturers, communication companies and coal companies. Ms. Burgess assists secured lenders in protecting and recovering their collateral whether through workout and forbearance, self-help remedies, state or federal court litigation, or bankruptcy proceedings. She also assists secured and unsecured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, landlords, utilities and purchasers of assets in both complex commercial bankruptcies, as well as large and small individual chapter 11 cases. Ms. Burgess represents plaintiffs and defendants in preference actions nationally, fraudulent conveyance actions, claim objections, breach-of-fiduciary-duty investigations, and any other contested or litigation matters in bankruptcy court, and she represents financial institutions (from local to national) in defending lender-liability claims and violations of state and federal statutes, as well as pursuing commercial foreclosure and collection actions. When not helping in the distressed arena, she also counsels businesses of varying sizes engaged in complex commercial disputes, such as breach of contract, negligence, fraud, misrepresentation, tortious interference, successor liability, business ownership, control and governance issues, mineral trespass and energy-related disputes, franchise disputes, and violations of various state and federal statutes. In addition, she mediates complex commercial disputes. Ms. Burgess has been listed in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers (2020-24), is a top-rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation. Ms. Burgess is a member of ABI, for which she serves on its Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop Advisory Board and as education director for its Emerging Industries and Technology Committee; the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, for which she serves on its KIT Network board; and the Southern Automotive Women’s Forum, for which she serves as board member and treasurer. She previously served on the board of the Tennessee Automotive Manufacturing Association. Ms. Burgess received her B.A. summa cum laude in 1991 from Thomas More College and her J.D. in 1994 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she was admitted to the Order of the Coif, Delta Theta Phi and the Moot Court Board.