Jeffrey E. Ramsey

Professional Experience

• Represents creditors and banks in loan workouts, restructuring, bankruptcies, foreclosures and liquidations
• Represents financial institutions and creditors in commercial and consumer collections cases
• Represents creditors in various types of commercial litigation
• Represents business entities in formation and dissolution
• Represents businesses and individuals in real estate transactions

Bar Admissions

• Indiana, 1985
• U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, 1985
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, 1985

Educational Background

• Valparaiso University, B.A., 1980
• Valparaiso University School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1985
• Note Editor,  University School of Law, Valparaiso Law Review
• Clerk for the Honorable Morton B. Kanz, Lake County Superior Court
• Clerk for the Honorable Wesley W. Ratliff, Jr., Chief Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals

Professional and Charitable Organizations

• Indianapolis Bar Association (Member, Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy Section)
• Indiana State Bar Association
• Indiana Association for Corporate Renewal
• Commercial Law League of America
• International Association of Commercial Collectors
• Commercial Collection Agencies of America
• Indiana Creditors Bar Association
• Indy Rainbow Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors)
• The Indianapolis Dramatic Club
• Best Lawyers 2016 – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Published Cases

• National City Bank of Indiana v. Morris, 717 N.E.2d 934 (Ind.App., 1999)
• Matter of Vicars Ins. Agency, Inc., 96 F.3d 949 (7th Cir., 1996)
• Matter of Penrod, 50 F.3d 459 (7th Cir., 1995)
• Sciscoe v. Leistner, 164 B.R. 86 (S.D.Ind., 1993)
• Bicknell v. Stanley, 118 B.R. 652 (S.D.Ind., 1990)
• In re Allied Companies, Inc., 155 B.R. 739 (Bankr.S.D.Ind., 1992)

Representative Cases

• Represented bank in suit on notes, security agreements and guaranties, involving coordination of pre-judgment garnishments and attachments, with and without notice, to secure collateral or other assets of the debtor prior to suit, culminating in full recovery for the bank.
• Represented former engineering employee in breach of employment contract action. Planned and executed extensive pre-judgment replevin, without notice, of National race team’s assets, which ultimately resulted in settlement of case and payment of prize monies owed to former employee.
• Represented various banks, financial institutions, and lenders in numerous commercial foreclosure actions, sales of property, replevin of equipment and pursuit of guarantors upon deficiency judgments.
• Pioneered the use of private auctions under state foreclosure statements to maximize return on commercial foreclosures.
• Represented banks and other mortgage lenders in numerous consumer foreclosure actions, sales of the real estate and the pursuit of deficiency judgments.
• Represented numerous banks and creditors in workouts, negotiations and documenting forbearance agreements and other payment plans.