Bar Admissions

North Carolina

Education

University of Virginia, J.D., 1984, Moot Court Board

University of Virginia, B.A., with distinction, 1981

Profile

Garland Cassada practices in the areas of commercial and corporate litigation, and insolvency, corporate reorganization and debt restructuring matters. He has particular experience in the representation of purchasers of and investors in distressed businesses and assets and is a leader on restructuring issues related to companies with asbestos and other mass tort liability. Garland has been a frequent speaker at bankruptcy seminars, including a LexisNexis Wall Street Forum on Asbestos where he spoke about structuring transactions to avoid successor, fraudulent transfer and veil piercing liability. 

Garland previously served on an ad hoc committee, chaired by The Honorable Judge Edward R. Becker, to assist the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate in drafting bankruptcy-related provisions for S.852 (Fairness in Asbestos Resolution Act of 2005). 

Honors & Awards

Experience

Experience

  • Represented a purchaser of assets of a building products manufacturer in the successful defense of successor liability claims asserted by legal representatives for a nationwide class of present and future asbestos claimants.

  • Represented a national asbestos defendant in one of the first successful permanent settlements in a pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.

  • Represented a global engineering and infrastructure development firm in the successful purchase of assets pursuant to a competitive process in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of an international engineering consulting company.

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Affiliations

Professional Affiliations

  • North Carolina Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, Council Member; Ethics Committee, Chair

Community Affiliations

  • Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Board Member, 2007
  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Western North Carolina Chapter, Board Member, Man of the Year Campaign, 2006; Man of the Year, 2005  
  • Leadership Charlotte, Class 17
  • St. Francis Jobs Program, Inc., Board of Directors, Chairman
  • Southminster, Inc. (a nonprofit retirement community), Board Member, Secretary
  • Christ Episcopal Church Foundation, Board Member, Chairman
  • Christ Church Kindergarten, Board Member, Chairman
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