Areas of Practice Concentration

• Representation of Debtors, Creditors and Trustees under all chapters of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
• Business Reorganizations
• Commercial litigation
• Debt Workouts - Representation of Borrowers, Guarantors, and Lenders

Education

• Rice University, B.A., 1989
• University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D. with Honors, 1992

Bar Admissions

• Louisiana, 1993
• North Carolina, 1994

Court Admissions

• Eastern, Middle and Western U.S. District Courts, North Carolina
• Eastern, Middle and Western U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, North Carolina
• Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
• Eastern, Middle and Western U.S. District Courts, Louisiana

Professional Affiliations

• Wake County, North Carolina, Louisiana and American Bar Associations
• National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Board Certified Specialist in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization
• Certification in business bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification
• National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys

Bill Janvier focuses his practice on representation before the Bankruptcy Court and on financial restructuring, and is a board certified specialist in both business and consumer bankruptcy. He represents businesses and individuals in financial distress, as well as lenders with problem loans. He has served on the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees appointed by the Bankruptcy Court to administer Chapter 7 cases, and chairs the ethics committee of the state bar association's bankruptcy section.

Both inside and outside of bankruptcy, Bill has participated in the reorganization or liquidation of businesses in a wide variety of industries, ranging from retail stores to manufacturing companies to restaurants to technology companies to contractors to commercial developers to health care providers.

Bill is a regular speaker at continuing legal education programs, and has written numerous published articles on bankruptcy, bankruptcy litigation, and financial restructuring. Bill is a regular contributor to the bankruptcy section newsletter The Disclosure Statement. When not at work, Bill spends his time with his wife Ann and their four children. Bill is confident that he had hobbies prior to having children, but can no longer recall what those hobbies might have been.

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