Rory D. Whelehan

Rory D. Whelehan is the owner of Whelehan Law Firm, LLC in Greenville, S.C., where he focuses on all aspects of civil litigation, creditors’ rights, debt restructuring, foreclosure, bankruptcy and insolvency. He is also certified by the North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization as a business bankruptcy law specialist and a consumer bankruptcy law specialist. Mr. Whelehan has spent his entire career focused in the bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors rights arena. He regularly appears in state, bankruptcy and federal courts in South Carolina and North Carolina, and has represented all constituents in chapter 7, chapter 11, chapter 12 and chapter 13 cases, including secured creditors, unsecured trade creditors, creditors’ committees and debtors. Mr. Whelehan’s representative clients include financial institutions, life insurance companies, trade creditors, landlords, bankruptcy trustees, and individual creditors and debtors. He also has represented litigants in bankruptcy appeals both at the federal district court level in North Carolina and has appeared at the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va. Moreover, he has experience in all facets of related insolvency litigation, including commercial collections, guaranty lawsuits, preference and fraudulent transfer defense, and state law foreclosure and receiverships. In addition, he is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification as a mediator and arbitrator, and he completed the mediation training course sponsored by ABI and St. John’s University School of Law. Over the course of almost 30 years, Mr. Whelehan’s insolvency experience has involved numerous financially distressed industries, including aviation, textile, asbestos, big-box retail and petroleum/convenience stores. In addition to his litigation work, he has provided advice and assistance in workouts and debt restructurings for various financial institutions and life insurance companies. He also has provided bankruptcy legal opinions in connection with various sophisticated financial transactions, including nonconsolidation, fraudulent transfer and automatic stay opinions. Mr. Whelehan’s practice includes commercial debt collection and ancillary remedies, such as attachments, garnishments and the appointment of receivers. He received his B.A. and B.S. in 1986 magna cum laude with honors and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of South Carolina, and his J.D. in 1989 from the University of South Carolina School of Law.