Timothy James Anzenberger

Timothy J. Anzenberger is a partner with Adams and Reese LLP in Ridgeland, Miss., and is a commercial and bankruptcy litigator, pursuing the interests of financial institutions and other creditors in bankruptcy cases and litigating on their behalf in state and federal courts. He also is an experienced appellate litigator in financial-services cases, handling all stages of an appeal — from posttrial motions through oral argument. Mr. Anzenberger’s experience includes representing lenders in commercial restructuring and bankruptcy cases, defending preference actions, defending lenderliability claims, prosecuting objections to discharge, pursuing fraudulent transfers and defending creditors in adversary proceedings. He is an active ABI member and frequently writes for the ABI Journal and its committee newsletters. He also currently co-chairs ABI’s Ethics and Professional Compensation Committee and sits on the advisory board for the ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop. As part of his appellate practice, Mr. Anzenberger is a member of the Pro Bono Appellate Programs for the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits. Prior to entering private practice, he clerked for Presiding Justice Jess H. Dickinson of the Mississippi Supreme Court and served as a legal extern in the Staff Attorney’s Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Anzenberger received his B.A. in 2007 in political science from Noth Carolina State University and his J.D. summa cum laude in 2011 from Mississippi College School of Law, where he served as an executive editor of the Mississippi College Law Review and was active on the Moot Court Board, for which he was a National Champion and won Best Brief at the 2011 Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship. He also won Best Oral Advocate at the Ruby R. Vale Corporate Moot Court Competition and was a finalist at the Elliot Cup Bankruptcy Competition, and he received Best Paper Awards in Antitrust Law, Law and Economics, Criminal Law, Secured Transactions, Legal Writing and Capital Punishment Law.