• 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, related litigation matters

Actual recent experience includes:

• Representation of senior secured lender in multi-state, integrated agricultural bankruptcy
• Litigation of contested cash collateral motions
• Representation of senior secured lender in bankruptcy of multi-state construction contractor
• Trustee litigation-defense of fraudulent transfer and preference claims in alleged Ponzi scheme cases in Texas and New Mexico
• Foreclosures (judicial and non-judicial) - apartment complexes; dairy facilities; motor vehicle dealerships
• Section 363 sales – buyer – “stalking horse” representation
• Representation of bond holders in multi-state affordable housing Chapter 11
• Debtor in Possession counsel for publicly traded Chapter 11 entity
• Successful prosecution of dischargeability litigation under Section 523 of Bankruptcy Code
• Motor vehicle dealerships – dealership facility and acquisitions in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas
• Financial institutions – documentation of asset based lending facilities for agricultural, industrial, automotive, and real estate borrowers
• Receiver – state court receivership area FM radio stations; operating as FCC licensee, followed by 363-style sale and full creditor payout

Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

• Business Bankruptcy Law
• Commercial Real Estate Law
• Farm & Ranch Real Estate Law

• American Agricultural Law Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• 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

• Fifth Circuit Affirms Ruling Under In re Till, but Rejects Till as Exclusive Chapter 11 Cram Down Interest Rate Methodology
• Fifth Circuit Affirms “Unforeseeable Business Circumstances” Exception to Warn Act 60-DAY Notice Requirement
• New Board Certified Shareholders at Underwood
• Roger Cox – Distinguished Guest Speaker at Oklahoma State University
• Underwood Law Firm has Eight of The Best Lawyers in America!
• Bankruptcy Courts Address Texas Assignment of Rents Act
• Supreme Court Rules That Cram Down Plans Providing For Sale of Secured Creditor’s Collateral Must Allow For Lender’s Credit Bid Rights
• Punitive Damage Award Held Nondischargeable
• Not Every “Scheme” is a Ponzi Scheme
• Underwood Attorney to Serve on Northern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Panel
• Roger Cox Published in ABI Newsletter
• Fifth Circuit Holds Inherited IRA Exempt in Bankruptcy
• 2012 Super Lawyers – Business Edition
• Fifth Circuit Finds Attorneys’ Fee Award Potentially Non-Dischargeable
• VALUATION TESTIMONY FROM PROPERTY OWNER’S CORPORATE REP
• CHAPTER 11 CRAM UP – Back to the Future by Way of Reinstatement Under 1124(2) of the Bankruptcy Code
• Assignment of Rents – New Statutory Framework in Texas

Publications and Presentations

• Panelist – Northern District of Texas Bench – Bar Conference (2010 and 2012)
• Chapter 11 Cram Up – Back to the Future by way of Reinstatement under 1124(2) (State Bar of Texas Advanced Business Bankruptcy Institute 2011)
• Co-Author, Bankruptcy Road Map (State Bar of Texas 2010)
• Contributor, SMU Law Review, Annual Survey of Texas Law (1994-2006)

• 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