C. Edward Dobbs

C. Edward Dobbs is a senior partner in the Atlanta office of Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP and is the founder and architect of the firm’s commercial finance, debt restructuring and ADR neutral services practice areas. He has practiced law for nearly 50 years and has been involved in documenting and closing syndicated commercial loans for banks and other financial institutions; representing financial institutions in debt restructurings, workouts, litigation and bankruptcy cases; and representing debtors, unsecured creditors and creditors’ committees in bankruptcy cases. For more than 25 years, a sizeable part of Mr. Dobbs’s practice has included service as a neutral in both arbitrations and mediations; over the last seven years, his service as a neutral has predominated. Mr. Dobbs is a Fellow in the AmericanCollege of Bankruptcy, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (for which he served as past president), American College of Civil Trial Mediators, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia and AmericanBar Foundation, and he is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, a Master of theBench in the W. Homer Drake, Jr. Georgia Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, 2013 recipient of the Da-vid W. Pollard (Lifetime Achievement) Award, the author of two legal books and numerous law review articles, as well as a forthcoming treatise on the mediation of commercial disputes, and a lecturer at each of the 10 ABI/St. Johns Law School’s annual mediation courses. He also serves on the panel of neutrals(for both arbitration and mediation) maintained by the American Arbitration Association for commercial cases and is frequently called upon to serve as a mediator in complex commercial disputes. Mr. Dobbs received his A.B. in 1971 from Davidson College and his J.D. in 1974 from Vanderbilt University LawSchool, where he was articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif.