Scott A. Underwood

Scott A. Underwood is an attorney with Underwood Murray PA in Tampa, Fla., and has experience in some of the most complex bankruptcy cases and distressed business situations across the state and country. He has represented distressed businesses, chapter 11 debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bankruptcy trustees, creditors’ committees, landlords, liquidating trustees and parties acquiring and selling assets from bankruptcy cases. Mr. Underwood’s debtor-side representative experience crosses many industries. He has represented chapter 11 debtors in the health care industry, hospitality, real estate, utilities, waste-management, technology and manufacturing. In addition to representing debtors, he has represented large secured creditors, asset-purchasers, bondholders, debtor-in-possession lenders, trustees, business owners, creditors’ committees and professional fiduciaries. His representative and transactional bankruptcy experience measures in the billions of dollars. Beyond core chapter 11 matters, Mr. Underwood represents clients in various high-stakes insolvency related litigation matters. He has been involved in substantial director and officer litigation, bond disputes, technology products liability litigation and other commercial disputes. He also has experience with assignments for the benefit of creditors, having represented assignees, assignors, asset-purchasers and creditors in such proceedings throughout Florida. Mr. Underwood is a member of ABI (for which he served as past chair of its Real Estate Committee) and the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association, Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida and Business Law Section of the Florida Bar, where he is an active member of its Bankruptcy/UCC Committee and its study groups. A frequent speaker on bankruptcy topics, he has been listed in Chambers USA since 2012, in Florida Super Lawyers since 2009, as one of the Top 50 Lawyers in Tampa in 2019, and as one of Florida Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite since 2013. He was also selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2018, 2019 and 2020 editions) in Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights and Insolvency & Reorganization Law, and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Underwood received his B.A. in 1998 from the University of Florida and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2003.