Jeffrey R.

Barber

• Benchmark Litigation, Local Litigation Star (listed annually since 2022, also listed 2015–2017)
• Best Lawyers'®, "Lawyer of the Year," Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Jackson, Mississippi (2015, 2019, 2021); "Lawyer of the Year," Litigation-Bankruptcy Law, Jackson, Mississippi (2012); Litigation – Bankruptcy (2022, 2024)
• Chambers USA, Corporate/Commercial: Bankruptcy (2019); Bankruptcy/Restructuring (listed annually since 2020)
• Mid-South Super Lawyers, Bankruptcy: Business (2010, listed annually since 2013)
• The Best Lawyers in America®, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation – Bankruptcy (listed annually since 2008)
• AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell

Insurance and Financial Services

• Represented the Chapter 11 trustee of a residential mortgage loan servicing company following the theft of more than $9 million from debtor-in-possession accounts, along with corporate books and records, and the transfer of such assets to countries in Latin America.
• Represented an unsecured creditors committee in a Chapter 11 case involving allegations that the debtor stole in excess of $140 million from 13 corporate payroll processing entities he owned, each of which were also in Chapter 11.
• Represented a foreign insurance company as the defendant in a $150 million Chapter 15 adversary proceeding and subsequent circuit court appeal — the first in the country.

Energy

• Represented foreign entities whose $2 billion of deep-sea drilling rigs were being fabricated by shipyard/vessel fabricating companies that filed Chapter 11 proceedings; later represented the same foreign entities in a Section 363 purchase of the divisions of Chapter 11 debtors.
• Represented the Chapter 11 trustee in the restructuring of an oil and gas company’s operating wells and multiple gas processing refineries in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
• Represented an international offshore drilling contractor as a debtor in a pre-negotiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy case involving the restructuring of approximately $1.1 billion in funded debt.

Agriculture

• Represented crop production lenders in a Chapter 11 grain elevator proceeding involving the rarely used expedited provisions of Section 557 of the Bankruptcy Code to litigate competing claims under Articles 2, 7, and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code; the federal Food Security Act; and state grain elevator statutes and regulations.
• Represented a lender as a participant in a combined $80 million new market tax credit transaction and secured lending arrangement in Chapter 11 proceedings of owners and lessees of a peanut processing plant.

Healthcare

• Represented a hospital facility as a counterparty to an executory contract in Chapter 11 proceedings of specialty medical services providers with more than 900 facilities in the continental United States.
• Represented the Chapter 7 trustee of a medical laboratory facility in prosecuting more than 130 fraudulent transfer adversary proceedings.

• Alabama State Bar
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference, Ad Hoc Law Forum Committee (1993–1994); Chairman, Education Committee (1992, 1995–1996); Bar Convention Committee (1989)
• Mississippi Home Educators Association, Director
• Riverwood Bible Church, Deacon (1998–1999); Elder (1999–2005); Grace Bible Church, Elder (2005–2017)
• The Mississippi Bar