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Profile

• Mr. Williamson has earned a reputation as one of the top insolvency and restructuring practitioners in the Southeast. He specializes in business workouts and reorganizations, both in and out of bankruptcy court, and litigation of issues concerning creditor and debtor rights.
• During his lengthy career, Mr. Williamson has advised and represented a wide variety of parties, including debtor companies, asset purchasers, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, equity holders, official committees, and litigants in state and federal court.
• Mr. Williamson (and the firm) has served as local and/or conflicts counsel in connection with a number of significant Chapter 11 cases and other proceedings in federal and state courts.
• Mr. Williamson has been the president and managing shareholder of Scroggins, Williamson & Ray, P.C. (and its predecessor, Scroggins & Williamson) since the firm’s formation in 1993. Prior to that time, he practiced with the law firms of King & Spalding in Atlanta and Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser in Tampa, Florida.

Experience

• Representative Chapter 11 Debtor Engagements: Pike Nursery Holdings; Beaulieu of America; Diamond Carpets; The Krystal Company; Verso Technologies; Miller Auto Parts; P-D Valmiera Glass (USA) Corp.; The Aliera Cos.; Southern Regional Medical Center; Regional Housing & Community Services; Andersen 2000; Neighborhood Restaurant Partners; Netrail, Inc.; C.T. Harris, Inc.; Mom’s Bakery, Inc.; Lee’s Famous Recipes; Columbus Packaging; Stewart Finance; Pearson’s Wine of Atlanta; Mansours, Inc. and B&A Construction.
• Representative Trustee Counsel Engagements: Brown Transportation, Hutcheson Medical Center, Russell Corp., Tom’s Foods, and Lynx Chemicals.
• Representative Creditors’ Committee Engagements: RDM Sports; Jack Cooper Transport; McLain Building Materials; TransMeridian Airlines; Fourth Quarter Properties; Metaugus; Tortilleria El Maizal, Inc.; Sageryder, Inc.; and Real Estate Exchange Services.
• Other Representative Engagements: Riverside Contracting, LLC (large equity holder of Enron-affiliate New Power Holdings, Inc.); Hanmi Bank (secured creditor in several bankruptcy cases); OC III LVS LXI LP (pre-petition and DIP secured lender to Chapter 11 debtor AFH Air Pros); Vista Acquisition, LLC (§363 purchaser of retail optical centers from Chapter 11 debtor Vista Eyecare); BREIT Stone Mountain Owner, LLC (landlord of chapter 7 debtor); Tempur Sealy (significant creditor of Chapter 11 debtor Sleep Galleria, LLC); African Methodist Episcopal Church (primary secured creditor of Chapter 11 debtor Morris Brown College).

Qualifications

Bar Qualification / Admissions

• Georgia
• Florida
• West Virginia (inactive)

Education

• JD, West Virginia University, 1986
• BS, Vanderbilt University, 1983

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Practice Areas

• Complex Business Bankruptcy
• Commercial Restructurings & Insolvency
• Out of Court Restructurings & Workouts
• Debtors & Creditors Rights Litigation
• Commercial Litigation

Awards & Affiliations

• State Bar of Georgia, Bankruptcy Law Section (Chair 2002-03)
• Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, Board Member (Pres. 2009-10; Chair 2010-11)
• W. Homer Drake, Jr., Bankruptcy Inn of Court, Master (Counselor 2019-20)
• Atlanta Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section (Board Member 2005)
• Advisory Board for Emory University Law School’s Bankruptcy Developments Journal
• Listed as a leading Georgia bankruptcy practitioner in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America Georgia for Bankruptcy and Creditor & Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Recognized by Georgia Super Lawyers in Bankruptcy: Business
• Included in Georgia Trend Magazine Legal Elite issue
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
• Turnaround Management Association, Member