During his 16-year legal career Thomas Willoughby has represented chapter 11 debtors, creditors and trustees. Tom has assisted many businesses in successful chapter 11 reorganizations. He has also represented bankruptcy trustees and official committees in a wide variety of industries, including skilled nursing facilities, auto dealerships, restaurants, contractors, real estate developers, and agriculture. Over the past several years, Tom has been the lead attorney for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Tri Valley Growers chapter 11 case. He has also just completed numerous avoidance actions with recoveries collected to date of $4,400,000, and has represented a chapter 11 Trustee in the operation and disposition of twenty-six Taco Bell restaurants.

Tom earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985, and received his J.D. in 1988 from the University of California, Davis. While at U.C. Davis, Tom received American Jurisprudence Awards in Federal Tax I and in Law & Economics. He also served as an Associate Editor of the U.C. Davis Law Review.

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Tom is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, and the Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Panel for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California. Tom served on the Debtor/Creditor Committee of the State Bar of California’s Business Law Section from 1996 to 1999 and the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum from 1996 to 1998. He also served on the Attorney Advisory Committee to the United States Bankruptcy Court Clerk’s Office for the Eastern District of California, and the Chapter 11 Liaison Committee to the Office of the U.S. Trustee.

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