Edward A. Keirn is Special Counsel for Commercial Transactions and Consumer Financial Services, resident in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. His practice is devoted primarily to matters and issues involving the debtor-creditor relationship, both with respect to large, complex, commercial financing transactions and to the myriad of consumer financial products offered by retail lending institutions and other consumer financial services providers. Mr. Keirn has represented a wide variety of commercial lenders and certain large commercial borrowers in connection with securitized asset financings, sale-leaseback transactions, production payment financings, loan restructurings, and loan workouts, negotiating the terms of the underlying financing transaction, preparing the financing documents, and providing legal opinions concerning the financing transaction and the financing documents. Mr. Keirn also represents banks, bank holding companies, thrifts, mortgage companies, consumer finance companies, and credit card issuers in connection with a wide variety of financial products offered to Indiana consumers. Mr. Keirn’s experience as a financial institutions’ examiner with the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions and later as that agency’s chief legal advisor on consumer credit compliance matters has provided him with unique insight into the regulatory environment of financial institutions. Mr. Keirn is a frequent lecturer at seminars and meetings and is an active member of several bar association sections and committees. In 1999, Mr. Keirn was a member of the Indiana State Bar Association Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Section — UCC Article 9 Task Force. This task force prepared written reports for the Indiana legislature in connection with its consideration and ultimate passage of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. During and since his involvement in the UCC Article 9 Task Force, Mr. Keirn has been involved in training his firm’s other lawyers on Revised Article 9 and assisting his firm’s many clients in achieving a smooth transition from former Article 9 to Revised Article 9. Mr. Keirn is a summa cum laude graduate of both Indiana Wesleyan University (B.S. 1973) and the Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis (J.D. 1983) and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Ball State University (M.P.A. 1979). His other publications include The Indiana Uniform Consumer Credit Code Compliance Manual, which is the manual currently used by the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions in conducting consumer credit compliance examinations.
Bambra K. Pitman is an associate in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. She has been a member of the firm’s Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring Department since joining the firm in 2011. Ms. Pitman represents commercial lenders, loan servicers, and receivers in a variety of matters, including loan modifications, loss mitigation measures, foreclosures, appointment of receivers and operation of receiverships. She has also provided guidance to manufacturers regarding tooling and raw material loss prevention and represents financial institutions and other creditors in the bankruptcy context. Ms. Pitman is a summa cum laude graduate of Indiana University — Indianapolis and received her Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, New York, in 2011.
