Michelle L. Boutin

Associate
Extension: 620
Email: mboutin@jdolaw.com
Assistants: Katie Kadarauch / Leanne Perkins, Ext. 670

MICHELLE L. BOUTIN is an associate of the firm focusing primarily on business transactions, Commercial Litigation, Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Law.

Ms. Boutin's experience includes:

• Litigating on behalf of a creditor in U.S. District Court for injunctive relief and repossession of a small jet aircraft.
• Representing creditors in most of the major bankruptcy cases filed in Alaska in the past 18 years.
• Successfully resolving numerous commercial credit collection matters, including representing creditors in summary foreclosure actions and judicial foreclosure actions.
• Negotiating and drafting a number of workout agreements.
• Representing a debtor in successfully filing a Chapter 11 plan and disclosure statement.
• Counseling a land owner in connection with a series of complex commercial real estate transactions; including negotiating and drafting a short term lease agreement, a purchase and sale agreement and a long term lease agreement.
• Serving as bankruptcy trustee counsel in fraudulent conveyance adversary actions.

Ms. Boutin speaks regularly on a variety of issues related to bankruptcy law and creditor collection rights. She previously served as an attorney representative to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit Judicial Conference. She served as a past President and Board Member of the Anchorage Bar Association, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the Alaska Bar Association.

Areas of Expertise

• Business Transactions and Contracts
• Commercial Litigation
• Commercial Collection
• Creditor Rights in Bankruptcy
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representation

Education

• J.D., Hamline University School of Law, 1986
• B.A., University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Justice, 1983

Bar Admissions

• Alaska Court Admissions
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
• U.S. District Court, District of Alaska

Memberships

• Alaska Bar Association
• Anchorage Bar Association

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