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Phillip L.  Kunkel

Principal - St. Cloud

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320.202.5335
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320.257.5626
E-mail
phillip.kunkel@gpmlaw.com
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Emily Legatt, 320.202.5343

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Suite 500
1010 W. St. Germain
St. Cloud, MN 56301

Phone: 320.252.4414
Fax: 320.252.4482

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Kunkel, Phillip

Phil concentrates his practice in receiverships, commercial financing, agricultural and agribusiness financing, and workouts and bankruptcy. He is a frequent CLE lecturer on commercial financing, UCC, renewable energy and workout and bankruptcy topics. Phil has also taught a course on agricultural marketing and production contracts in the LLM program at the University of Arkansas Law School.

Experience

  • Represented senior lenders in the VeraSun Energy Corporation bankruptcy concerning the acquisition, sale, and refinancing of six ethanol plants located in Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, and Nebraska
  • Represented senior lenders in connection with the bankruptcy of 55 MMGY ethanol facility in Minnesota
  • Represented lenders in litigation arising out of winding down of multistate swine operations relating to the determination of priority of various security interests and agricultural liens
  • Represented national trade organization in connection with 2008 Farm Bill and United States Department of Agriculture regulations relating to competition in the livestock industry
  • Represented senior lenders in more than 25 renewable energy projects (including ethanol, wind power, and biodiesel) totaling more than $1.75 billion in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Illinois
  • Represented administrative agent in a $400 million syndicated revolving credit facility for multi-state integrated agricultural producer
  • Represented administrative agent in a $175 million syndicated financing for agricultural processing facility in Missouri
  • Served as Chapter 11 trustee and represented bankruptcy trustees in $30 million check kiting and $350 million Ponzi scheme cases in Minnesota and Missouri

Publications

  • "Farm Legal Series," University of Minnesota Extension, coauthor, June 2009
  • Business Workouts Manual, West Publishing, coauthor, 2009
  • Debtor-Creditor Handbook, Minnesota CLE, coeditor, 2003-2012

Presentations

  • "Complications of Multiple Lenders," Minnesota CLE, December 8, 2010

Education

  • University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1977
  • St. John’s University, 1974

Bar Admissions

  • 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1985

Professional Activities

  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • American Bar Association, Business Law section, Agricultural and Agri-Business Financing Subcommittee, past chair; Business Bankruptcy, Commercial Financial Services and Uniform Commercial Code committees, member
  • American College of Bankruptcy, Fellow
  • Minnesota State Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section, past chair 
  • Minnesota State Bar Association, Business Law Section, past chair
  • Turnaround Management Association

Honors and Distinctions

  • “The Best Lawyers in America,” Woodward/White, 1995-2013
  • “Super Lawyer®,” Thomson/Reuters, 2008-2012
  • “Distinguished Service Award,” American Agricultural Law Association, 2011
  • “Minnesota's Best Lawyers,” Minnesota Monthly, 2009-2012