Bill Deloney Bensinger

Bill Bensinger focuses his practice on commercial dispute litigation, bankruptcy and restructuring litigation. He represents creditors, franchisees, landlords, unsecured creditors’ committees and financial institutions in a wide variety of matters, including preference and avoidance actions, workout transactions and insolvency matters.

Bill represents franchisees in bankruptcy, including matters concerning the assumption of franchise agreements, and represents landlords in bank matters concerning the assumption of commercial leases.

His work on behalf of financial institutions includes general creditor’s rights litigation, including cash collateral, relief from stay and plan confirmation issues.

Representative Experiance:

• Bullock v. BankChampaign, N.A., 133 S. Ct. 1754 (2013) – Counsel for respondent BankChampaign, N.A., in the Supreme Court’s only bankruptcy case in the October 2013 term, concerning a dispute over an exception to the bankruptcy discharge for debts incurred through “defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity.”
• Burgess v. Sikes, 438 F.3d 493 (5th Cir. 2003) – counsel for amici professors of law before the en banc Fifth Circuit, concerning the question of whether a crop disaster relief payment was property of the debtor’s estate.

Award and Recognition:

•  Selected for inclusion by The Best Lawyers in America® in 2018 for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Bankruptcy Litigation
• Selected for inclusion by Alabama Super Lawyers® in 2012 – 2015 as a Rising Star in the field of Business Litigation (Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights)