Lawyer Overview

Tom Beckett is a shareholder in the Litigation department. He practices primarily in the area of commercial litigation, and he is head of the firm's Financial Solutions Group which includes bankruptcy, workouts and financial litigation. For the past several years, Tom has mainly represented Creditors Committees in the bankruptcies of high-end luxury resorts, inlcuding the Promontory Club in Park City, the Yellowstone Mountain Club in Big Sky, Montana and Rhodes Ranch in Las Vegas.

Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, he was an associate in the bankruptcy/workout department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York City. Tom is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy issues in intellectual property sales and licensure. His work experience includes a year as a research assistant for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. He has held a whitewater river guide's license for 35 years.

Professional Listings:

• Best Lawyers in America (Bankruptcy / Creditors Rights)
• Utah Business Magazine's Legal Elite (Bankruptcy / Creditors Rights)
• Southwestern Regional Superlawyer (Bankruptcy / Creditors rights)
• AV rating, Martindale Hubbell

Representative Engagements

• Counsel to Creditors Committee Yellowstone Mountain Club, Big Sky, Montana ($400m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Promontory Club, Park City, Utah  ($400m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Rhodes Homes, Las Vegas, Nevada ($400m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Waterford Funding, Salt Lake City, Utah ($100m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Geneva Steel's first bankruptcy ($150m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Geneva Steel's second bankruptcy ($250m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Firstline Security, Inc.  ($30m)
• Counsel to Creditors Committee Johns Manville ($50m) 
• Bank Litigation Counsel secured lenders foreclosing on power plants  ($800m)
• Bank Litigation Counsel secured lender foreclosing on three-tower real estate development  ($100m)
• Victims' Counsel 250 German victims of securities fraud ($60m)
• Asset Purchaser's Counsel national gasoline retailer purchasing numerous retail sites from bankrupt regional
• Corporate / Restructuring counsel real estate development company with $425 million in debt on eight projects in four Western States
• Debtor's counsel bankruptcy of largest U.S. roller coaster manufacturer
• Debtor's counsel U.S. Lines, one of the world's largest sea shipping companies
• Trustee's counsel liquidation of formerly largest U.S. law firm, Finley Kumbel

Areas of Practice

• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Litigation & Appeals
• Banking & Finance Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Workouts & Restructuring

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1987
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1987
• Utah, 1990
• U.S. District Court District of Utah, 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2004

Classes and Seminars

• Panel Moderator, "Hot Topics and Recent Developments," American Bankruptcy Institute's Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference, attended by Western regional bankruptcy practitioners and judges, January 20-21, 2010
• Keynote, "The Yellowstone Story", Urban Land Institute, Charleston, SC "Capital Confesions," September 15, 2009
• "Directors' Duties in the Zone of Insolvency," Utah Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors, February 20, 2008
• Panel Moderator, "Bankruptcy Settlements," American Bankruptcy Institute's Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference, attended by Western regional bankruptcy practitioners and judges, February 14 & 15, 2008
• "Business Valuation in Bankruptcy: Tools & Techniques," Association Of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, February 21-24, 2004

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1986
  J.D. degree
• New York University, 1986
  M.B.A.
  Major: Finance
• Brown University, 1979
  B.A. degree

Address

201 South Main Street
Suite 1800
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-2218

Phones

801-532-1234

Faxes

801-536-6111

Emails

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Websites

http://www.parsonsbehlelaw.com