Mr. John J. Cruciani

John J. Cruciani, CPA is a partner with the Kansas City, Mo., office of Husch Blackwell LLP, where he practices in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He regularly represents debtors, trustee, creditors, committees and buyers in bankruptcy actions, and he has substantial bankruptcy experience within the manufacturing industry. Mr. Cruciani effectively defends many bankruptcy preference and fraudulent-transfer actions on behalf of manufacturers and other firm clients. His work includes counseling Emerson Electric on nationwide bankruptcy and insolvency matters; being lead bankruptcy counsel in PatientFirst Healthcare and affiliates in its chapter 11 bankruptcy, being lead bankruptcy counsel for the chapter 11 trustee and now the chapter 7 trustee in the Brooke Corp. et al. (Brooke Insurance) jointly administered bankruptcy proceedings in the District of Kansas, and serving as lead bankruptcy counsel for the largest agricultural cooperative chapter 11 bankruptcy case ever filed in Kansas. In addition to the manufacturing industry, Mr. Cruciani’s restructuring experience includes health care (surgical specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and critical-access hospitals), transportation (capital equipment), agriculture (cooperative restructuring) and insurance. A frequent author and speaker on bankruptcy law matters, he has published periodic articles in the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s KC Counselor and has spoken on bankruptcy topics for ABI, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association and Kansas City Bankruptcy Bar Association events. Mr. Cruciani received his J.D. in 1994 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.