PRACTICE AREAS

Business Litigation

Corporate Directors & Officers Liability Litigation

Mr. Sinclair represents secured and unsecured creditors, committees of creditors and equity security holders, and business debtors in business restructuring, workout and bankruptcy matters. He has an extensive background in complex business litigation and planning, including veil piercing, successor liability, executive employment, construction and real estate litigation of every type and description. Mr. Sinclair has represented buyers and sellers of significant businesses in asset/business sales and acquisitions. His general business clients are active in the service industry, real estate, lending and finance, insurance, airline, automotive and other general business enterprises.

Among Mr. Sinclair’s professional distinctions are his Missouri Bar Association Oliver Rasch Award conferred in 1989, and his continuous listing since 2003 in the Best of Bar award from the Kansas City Business Journal. He is also listed as a Missouri Super Lawyer. He has frequently lectured on legal topics and contributed to Missouri Bar publications. He served as an adjunct professor of real estate transactions at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Mr. Sinclair is admitted to practice in Missouri and Kansas.

DISTINCTIONS

Best of the Bar Award, (2003-present) by the Kansas City Business Journal

Paul was selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers (2007, 2008) for Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights

Listed in the The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law (2007-2009)

W. Oliver Rasch (Writing) Award (1989)

Paul was honored in the Kansas City Business Journal's "Best of the Bar" for 2008

COMMUNITY AND BAR INVOLVEMENT

The Kansas Bar

The Missouri Bar

American Bankruptcy Institute

NOTABLE EXPERIENCE

Defending scores of bankruptcy preference cases throughout the country, reducing clients’ liability to a fraction of the demand, including a major success in Payless Cashways, proving that this major lumber and building supply retailer was solvent for 67 of the 90 days prior to bankruptcy (Silverman Consulting, Inc. v. Hitachi Power Tools, USA, Ltd., 290 B.R. 689 (Bankr. W.D.Mo. 2003)).

Serving as lead counsel for over 25 years in business jury trials, bench trials and arbitration proceedings.

Serving as co-counsel to Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, Interstate Bakeries Corporation.

Serving as counsel to the principal workers’ compensation, automobile and general liability insurance carrier in the bankruptcy of the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperative, Farmland Industries, Inc.

Serving as creditors’ committee chairman and attorney to the committee in a land development real estate reorganization, resulting in a distribution to the unsecured creditors of 150 cents on the dollar.

Representing a secured creditor whose equipment had been used in liquidation sales to establish a super priority administrative claim superior to the debtor-in-possession lender.

Early in his career, established new law in Missouri regarding piercing the corporate veil in a case involving an NYSE-listed parent corporation (Collet v. American National Stores, Inc., 708 S.W.2d 273 (Mo.App.1986)).

EDUCATION

J.D., Georgetown University, 1975

A.B., magna cum laude, Boston College, 1972

BAR ADMISSIONS

Missouri, 1975