Leland is a Shareholder and Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group at Maynard Cooper. Leland represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, fiduciaries, indenture trustees, bondholders, investment funds and insurers in a wide range of complex disputes and distressed matters. Leland represents the interests of U.S. and foreign clients in Chapter 11 and Chapter 9 bankruptcies, receiverships and other insolvency proceedings, as well as out-of-court restructurings, workouts and liquidations across the United States and internationally. He has experience in all areas of bankruptcy and insolvency and has significant experience with federal receiverships, the purchase and sale of distressed assets in bankruptcy and receiverships, distressed investing and transactions, post-petition financing, extra-judicial remedies, and complex bankruptcy and commercial litigation, including lender liability, preferential transfer, fraudulent transfer and other avoidance actions. Leland has a wide range of experience involving complex financing and investment structures and handles matters with unique restructuring issues, including higher education, healthcare and senior living, agribusiness, government contracts, energy, construction, public finance, tax credit investments, and factoring and asset-based lending. Leland's talents have earned him recognition in Chambers USA in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring. He was also selected by the American Bankruptcy Institute as part of its 2018 class of "Top 40 Under 40" emerging leaders in the United States in the Insolvency Practice. In addition, he is regularly listed in The Best Lawyers in America© in the areas of "Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law" and "Litigation – Bankruptcy" and in Super Lawyers in the field of "Bankruptcy: Business".