Barry Freeman

Barry Freeman specializes in bank and asset-based lending, creditors' rights and Article 9 of the UCC, and is a member of the Firm's Corporate and Bankruptcy Reorganization Group, resident in the Los Angeles office.

Barry's practice focuses on all aspects of secured and unsecured lending, banking, asset-based and unsecured lending, syndicated and participated credits, representing both agents, participants and line banks; workouts and restructurings; creditors' rights; business bankruptcies; corporate reorganization; real estate; agricultural lending; and litigation counseling involving lender liability issues.

Barry represents manufacturing clients in a variety of fields, including the sale and distribution of manufactured goods on open account and secured basis and has substantial expertise in the automotive, tire, and agribusiness industries.

Barry also represents auctioneers and possesses substantial expertise in this industry, and has conducted several seminars on a national basis to fulfill the auction industry's continuing education requirements.

An active national lecturer, Barry serves as an instructor for the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Loan Documentation Committee, the California State Bar's Continuing Education of the Bar Programs on "Bankruptcy Reorganization, Debtor-Creditor Rights and Secured Transactions," and several times a year for The Practicing Law Institute and The Banking Law Institute on national panels.

Barry is an active arbitrator of commercial disputes for The American Arbitration Association.

Barry has been elected as a Fellow in the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He is also a past chair of the Loan Documentation Committee of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section and is a past chair and current vice chair of the California State Bar Association's Agribusiness Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Council for The Banking Law Institute.

Barry is a member of the California and Montana bars, and he is admitted to practice in the States of California, Montana, their respective State and Federal Courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States.