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Francis X. Buckley, Jr.

Francis X. Buckley, Jr.

Senior Counsel

Chicago
312 580 2210 312 580 2210 direct
312 782 1040 fax


  • OVERVIEW
  • INSIGHTS
  • NEWS & EVENTS

INDUSTRIES

PRACTICES

  • Education

    • Saint Louis University School of Law,

      J.D., cum laude, 1983

      Managing Editor, Saint Louis University Law Journal

    • Saint Louis University,

      B.S. in B.A., 1980

  • Admissions

    • Illinois

    • Missouri

    • Missouri USDC, Eastern District

    • Missouri USDC, Western District

    • Illinois USDC, Northern District

    • Illinois USDC, Central District

    • Illinois USDC, Southern District

    • Indiana USDC, Northern District

    • Wisconsin US Bank Ct, Eastern District

    • US Ct Appeals, 7th Circuit (Covers IL, IN, WI)

    • US Ct Appeals, 8th Circuit (Covers AR, IA, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)

  • Affiliations

    • American Bar Association

    • Chicago Bar Association

      Bankruptcy Committee, Vice Chair, 2014-Present

      Bankruptcy Committee, Chair, 2015-2016

    • Liaison Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2014-Present

      Liaison Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois, Chair, 2015

    • Commercial Law League of America

      Executive Council, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section, 2002-2006

    • The Missouri Bar

      Chair, Commercial Law Committee, 1997-2000

    • Illinois State Bar Association

    • The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

      Co-Chair, Bankruptcy Committee, 1989-1990

    • Bankruptcy Practice Memorial Fund, Eastern District of Missouri

      Chair, 2005-2007

  • Representative Clients

    • Ag Star Financial Services Corporation

    • First American Commercial Bancorp, Inc.

    • First Bank

    • Key Equipment Finance

    • Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

    • PNC

    • SunTrust Bank

    • U.S. Bank National Association

    • Wintrust Financial Corporation

  • Recognitions

    • American College of Bankruptcy

      Fellow, 2006

      Director, 2013-2020

      Chair, Bankruptcy History Committee, 2018-Present

    • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (by BL Rankings), 2007-2025

    • Listed in Illinois Super Lawyers (by Thomson Reuters), 2005-2007, 2011-2024

      Top 100 in Illinois, 2012-2014

    • Named Lawyer of the Year for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights in Chicago by The Best Lawyers in America (by BL Rankings), 2011

    • 2001 Michael R. Roser Excellence in Bankruptcy Practice Award (by the Missouri Bar Association)

    • Chair, American College of Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy History Committee 2018-Present

  • Employment

    • Thompson Coburn LLP

      Partner, 1992-Present

      Inaugural Managing Partner Chicago Office, 2007-2013

      Associate, 1985-1991

    • Hon. J.D. Trabue, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Illinois

      Law Clerk, 1983-1985

  • Community

    • Chicago Center for Music Education

      President, 2013-2014

    • Junior Achievement of Chicago

      Board Member, 2012-2015

    • Alexandra Ballet Company

      Board Member, 2003-2021

      Vice President, 2004-2005

    • United Way of Greater St. Louis

      Day Care Allocations Panel, 1997-2000

Frank is a longtime advisor to financial service providers who assists with insolvency and restructuring matters, loan enforcement, and a host of other business issues.

He counsels the Firm’s clients and publishes and conducts seminars on numerous bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues, including replevin, foreclosure under the Uniform Commercial Code, executions, enforcement of secured claims and environmental and real estate issues in bankruptcy proceedings.

He has represented lenders and creditors bankruptcy and insolvency cases and in repossession and foreclosure matters involving all types of personal property and real property. He has successfully orchestrated numerous replevin actions throughout the Midwest, recovering machinery, equipment, farm implements and inventories of metal goods and marine products. Frank has extensive experience in representing lenders to motor vehicle dealers in replevin cases and self-help repossessions, as well as Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. He has supervised and conducted the repossession and foreclosure of vehicles from single location dealers, as well as multiple location "mega" dealers. Additionally, Frank has counseled floorplan lenders concerning the disposition of motor vehicle inventory through private or public sale.

Blogs

It may be foul, but there is no harm: Not all mistakes have dire consequences under UCC Article 9

In Gouletas, bankruptcy court rules statutes of limitations have limitations

Assignee’s pre- and post-petition attorney fees are compensable in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy

Thompson Coburn Publications

Secured creditors beware

Publications

“Secured Claims in Bankruptcy”;
5 Mo. Bankruptcy Practice (MoBar), 1992

“The Missouri Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act”;
50 J. Mo. Bar 89, 1994

"Fraudulent Transfer Avoidance, Corporate Dissolutions and Receiverships to Satisfy Creditors’ Claims and Lis Pendens”;
7 Mo. Creditors’ Remedies (MoBar 5th ed. 1999)

“Creation of Security Interests”;
29 Commercial Law and Practice Guide (Mathew Bender & Co., 1999)