Timothy J. Hurley
Timothy J. Hurley is a partner in Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP’s Business Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights group in Cincinnati. He has chaired the group for more than 20 years and played a key role in starting the practice at Taft. He is also a member of the firm’s Litigation group. For more than 35 years, Mr. Hurley has represented debtors, creditors, committees, indenture trustees, buyers,<br>landlords, insurance companies and executors both in out-of-court workout agreements and restructurings and in chapter 11 cases throughout the U.S. These representations encompass all types of complex<br>transactions and litigation involving financially distressed businesses and assets and include the negotiation and formulation of out-of-court restructuring arrangements and chapter 11 reorganization plans, the acquisition and sale of assets and claims, the prosecution and defense of preference and fraudulent conveyance claims and motions related to stay relief, the formation and implementation of credit policies and procedures, and the structuring of loans and other financing arrangements involving debtor-<br>in-possession financing, letters of credit, leasing and floor-planning. Mr. Hurley frequently lectures on debt-restructuring, workouts and bankruptcy matters. His presentations have been broadcast nationally and carried on Court TV, and his articles have been featured in trade magazines and newspapers. He also serves on the executive committee of ABI’s Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar. Mr. Hurley is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and was named a The Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year” in the Litigation - Bankruptcy category in 2016. He was also the first, and currently the<br>only, Cincinnati attorney to be included in Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law for more than 25 years, and is included in its Bet-<br>the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Bankruptcy categories. Mr. Hurley has been recognized in every edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, and has been named one of Ohio’s Top 100 Lawyers five times and one of Cincinnati’s Top 50 Lawyers six times in the Super Lawyers edition of Cincinnati Magazine. He has also been listed in every Leading Lawyer edition of the magazine. Mr. Hurley received his H.A.B. summa cum laude in 1973 from Xavier University and his J.D. in 1976 from St. Louis University School of Law, where he was class valedictorian.