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Roger Cox is a member of Underwood’s Banking, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group and Business Law Section.  He works regularly with the region’s leading financial institutions and businesses.

Mr. Cox has extensive experience in complex commercial and agricultural bankruptcy proceedings, trustee litigation, restructuring and workouts, and commercial real estate matters and business acquisitions.  He also provides representation in related litigation matters.

Mr. Cox is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law (and formerly certified in Commercial Real Estate Law) by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

  • Complex Commercial and Agricultural Bankruptcies
  • Debt Restructuring and Workouts
  • Commercial Real Estate and Loan Transactions
  • Motor vehicle dealerships, financial institutions, and other businesses-acquisitions, commercial collections, select litigation matters

Actual recent experience includes:

  • Representation of the senior secured lender in large scale, integrated agricultural bankruptcy
  • Litigation of contested cash collateral motions
  • Representation of senior secured lender in bankruptcy of multi-state construction contractor
  • Trustee litigation-representation of fraudulent transfer and preference defendants in alleged Ponzi scheme case
  • Foreclosures – apartment complexes; dairy facilities
  • Section 363 sales – buyer – “stalking horse” representation
  • Debtor in Possession counsel for publicly traded Chapter 11 entity
  • Successful prosecution of dischargability litigation under Section 523 of Bankruptcy Code
  • Motor vehicle dealerships – facility and dealership acquisitions in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma
  • Financial institutions – documentation of asset based lending facilities for agricultural, industrial, automotive, and real estate borrowers

Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1991 – present

  • Business Bankruptcy Law, 1991 – present
  • Commercial Real Estate Law, 1996 – 2003
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • “Super Lawyer” – Law and Politics/Texas Monthly Magazine (2003 – 2011, inclusive)
  • Panhandle Bankruptcy Bar Association, past president
  • State Bar of Texas Bankruptcy Section, founding council member
  • Texas Association of Bank Counsel
  • Texas Bar Foundation, life fellow

Website Articles

  • Co-Author, Bankruptcy Road Map (State Bar of Texas 2010)

Recent Articles

  • Chapter 11 Cram UP – Back to the Future by way of Reinstatement under 1124(2) (State Bar of Texas Advanced Business Bankruptcy Institute 2011)
  • J.D. St. Mary’s University School of Law, J.D., 1983
    • Sr. Associate Editor, St. Mary’s Law Journal
  • B.S. Texas State University, 1980