The POWER List: Brian Walsh

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Kansas City

Brian Walsh represents debtors, secured lenders, asset purchasers, and other interested parties in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, receiverships, workouts, and distressed transactions. He also regularly advises borrowers, lenders, and corporate officers and directors about their alternatives and duties in situations involving insolvency or financial distress.

Walsh is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and he previously served a four-year term as the leader of the firm’s restructuring and insolvency practice.

Walsh also is an experienced appellate advocate. He has presented oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he regularly is lead counsel in appeals throughout the United States, many of which involve debtor-creditor issues.

He also taught as an adjunct professor in the Appellate Clinic at Washington University Law School for eight years, and he served as the president of the 8th Circuit Bar Association in 2017. He worked for King & Spalding as an associate and then a partner for over eight years.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1996, Walsh served as law clerk to the Hon. Pasco M. Bowman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City.