Paul M. Hoffmann

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Paul has more than 30 years of experience in bankruptcy and creditors' rights matters. His experience includes representing debtors, creditors, committees, trustees, buyers, landlords, franchisors and various other parties in bankruptcy, workout and collection matters. He has chaired various local bar association committees, written numerous seminar papers, and is a regular speaker at various continuing education seminars. He also is active in the community, currently serving on the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri, and previously serving as President of the Alumni Group of the Centurions Leadership Development Program of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

Representative Experience

Debtor clients Paul has represented include Hostess Brands, Inc. (f/k/a Interstate Bakeries Corporation)(Kansas City and New York), HB Logistics, Inc. (Alabama), the TWA Post-Confirmation Estate (Delaware), Dickinson Theatres, Inc. (Kansas), Bistate Bistro Associates, L.P. (restaurant franchisee, St. Louis), Boot Hill Biofuels, LLP (Kansas), Petroleum Production Marketing, Inc. (Kansas), Oread, Inc. (Kansas), Answer Kansas City, Inc. (Kansas) and Collet Ventures, Inc. (Missouri and Alabama)
Creditor clients Paul has represented include Midland Loan Services, EPR Properties, Bank of the West,, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Bank of Blue Valley, The CIT Group/Business Credit, Commerce Bank, Community National Bank and Dutchess Private Equities Fund Ltd.
Committee clients include the patronage refund certificate committee of Affiliated Foods, Inc., the unsecured creditors committees of CompuSpeak, Inc., Stoico Restaurant Group, Inc., Albert Tamm Lumber Company and Barry Gann Lumber Company, and individual members of unsecured creditors committees in Houlihan’s Restaurants, Inc., Wehrenberg Theatres, Inc. (St. Louis), and Mr. Gasket Company (Los Angeles)

Education

University of Michigan, J.D., 1982

University of Nebraska-Omaha, B.S.B.A., summa cum laude, 1979

Of Note

Paul has been continuously certified by the American Board of Certification in Business Bankruptcy Law since 1992. Dickinson Theatres, Inc. was the first movie exhibition company to emerge from bankruptcy, completing its case in less than four months. Oread was a leading pharmaceutical testing company that ended up developing a first-time protocol for preservation and transfer of drug testing information. Paul was lead counsel for the TWA Inc. Post-Confirmation Estate in pursuing more than 450 preference actions and hundreds of claims objections in Delaware. He is currently representing Hostess Brands (formerly Interstate Bakeries Corporation) and seven affiliates in reorganization cases pending in the Southern District of New York. Paul is also an Adjunct Professor of Secured Transactions at the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law (since 2003).

Community Involvement

Centurions Leadership Development Program, Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Graduate
Winterset Park Homeowners Association, Vice President
United Way, Volunteer

Bar Admissions

Missouri, 1982
Kansas Federal District Court

Professional Affiliations

American Bankruptcy Institute
Turnaround Management Association
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Lawyers Association of Kansas City