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.

Representative Experience:

• Elected as a Fellow of American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
• Panel chairperson and lecturer for over 20 years to bankers, lawyers and auctioneers primarily on the subject of loan workouts and loan documentation
• Over 35 years of experience in all major aspects of the commercial finance practice
• Representation of secured and unsecured creditors and loan workouts and restructures
• Representation of secured and unsecured creditors and Creditors' Committees in corporate reorganization in and out of Chapter 11
• Representation of asset-based lenders in all aspects of term and revolving credits, account receivable financing, factoring and related types of credit facilities
• Extensive experience under Article 9 and other applicable Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, including letters of credit
• Representation of Agents and line banks in syndicated and participated credits
• Representation of lenders in agribusiness transactions
• Representation of manufacturers in connection with sales of products, with particular experience in the automobile industry
• Lender liability counseling to lenders and, on occasion, borrowers; prosecute creditors’ rights in surety and guarantor situations
• Agribusiness lending, workouts and restructures
• 15 years of experience in litigation and trial representing lenders in State, Federal and bankruptcy courts.