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Practice Areas

• Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy
• Lending, Workout & Foreclosure
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Financial Institutions

Education

• J.D., University of Georgia, School of Law, 1987
• - Recipient of the United States Law Week award and the American Jurisprudence Award for Land Use Planning
• - Recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award and the American Bar Association Award for Employment Discrimination
• B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 1979

Bar & Court Admissions

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
• Georgia

Memberships

• • State Bar of Georgia
    - Bankruptcy Law Section
    - Creditor's Rights Section
  • American Bankruptcy Institute

Paul G. Durdaller is the chair of the Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy practice group at Taylor English Duma LLP. He has extensive experience representing creditors and financial institutions including national, local and community banks in bankruptcy, commercial and business litigation, lender liability claims, participation disputes and litigation, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, financial workouts, secured transactions and commercial lending. He also represents the FDIC and financial institutions as assignees and successors in interest to the FDIC in connection with the administration of loans, financial workouts, bankruptcy, troubled asset management and the related commercial litigation. In addition, Mr. Durdaller regularly represents committees, trustees, examiners, receivers and purchasers.

Mr. Durdaller’s practice includes a wide range of industries including financial institutions, real estate, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, technology, franchise and hospitality. He has also represented senior management committees in several bankruptcy cases including management’s $175M acquisition of Tender Loving Care Home Health Care Services, Inc. in its bankruptcy case. His litigation practice includes suits on notes and guaranties, writs of immediate possession, receiverships, personal property foreclosures including public and private sales, confirmation of real property foreclosure sales, deficiency suits, involuntary bankruptcy proceedings, avoidance and recovery of preferential and fraudulent transfers under the Bankruptcy Code and the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, and suits to deny the discharge of indebtedness in bankruptcy cases.

Mr. Durdaller’s committee and trustee representation includes Northlake Foods, Inc. (Distribution Trustee), Tender Loving Care Home Health Care Services, Inc. (Senior Management Committee); First American Health Care of Georgia Inc. (Equity Security Option Holders’ Committee); Allegiant Physician Services, Inc. (Creditors’ Committee); Super Discount Markets, Inc. (Cub Foods) (Creditors’ Committee); The Sport Shoe (Creditors’ Committee); Shoebilee, Inc. (Creditors’ Committee); and CT Crew (Creditors’ Committee).

From June 1987 through June 1989, Mr. Durdaller served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Lamar W. Davis, Jr., Chief Bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of Georgia. From 1989 through 1991, he practiced at Norton Pennington, a bankruptcy law firm in Atlanta.  In 1991, he joined Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP where he was a partner in its Bankruptcy and Financial Services practice group until he joined Taylor English Duma.