J. Patrick Warfield

Patrick Warfield is a partner located in the Nashville, Tennessee office of Burr & Forman LLP and is a member of the firm’s Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy service group. Patrick is also a member of the firm’s health care practice group. His practice focuses on out-of-court workouts and distressed transactions, bankruptcy, financially distressed businesses and loans, complex commercial litigation, landlord-tenant disputes, creditors’ rights matters, and other related insolvency issues.

Patrick has a depth of experience in solving problems throughout a multitude of industries, including health care, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing, and financial services. In representing clients, and in addition to providing legal advice, Patrick helps clients find, create, and salvage value even in the most difficult of circumstances. He assists clients in developing strategy and coming up with creative solutions and tactics to accomplish their end goals.

Patrick is routinely engaged by banks, financial institutions, secured and unsecured lenders, trade creditors, and secondary debt purchasers to assist them through the complex legal and regulatory landscapes. He is also hired by commercial landlords to represent them with distressed leases, bankrupt tenants, and complex eviction matters. In addition to the above, Patrick is routinely engaged by health care companies and health care REITs to advise them with respect to financially distressed situations.

In representing his clients, Patrick often: restructures troubled credit facilities and businesses; assists with the buying and selling of distressed assets, businesses, and commercial paper; structures distressed mergers and acquisitions; and represents clients in bankruptcy cases across the country, as well as debtor-creditor litigation in both state and federal courts. He often is engaged to advise and defend clients with respect to lender-liability lawsuits, fraud-related investigations and litigation, preference actions, and fraudulent transfer lawsuits.

Aside from the practice of law, Patrick is a proud Nashvillian and gives his time to various civic and non-profit endeavors, including the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands and the Westminster School for Young Children.

• Named, Chambers USA, "Up and Coming" in Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2022-2023)
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law since 2022, Litigation - Bankruptcy since 2022
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation (2021)
• Mid-South Super Lawyers "Rising Star," Bankruptcy: Business since 2016
• Nashville Business Journal, "Top 40 Under 40" (2016)
• Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum (2015-2016)
• National Conference of Bankruptcy Judge's Next Generation Program

• Montgomery Bell Academy Young Alumni Board (Former Member)
• The Ensworth School Alumni Council (Former President)
• The Ensworth School Board of Trust (Ex Officio, Former)
• Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum, Steering Committee
• The Westminster School for Young Children, Board Member

• American Bar Association
• Nashville Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association

Legal Practice Assistant

Ti Neely
(615) 724-3292
tneely@burr.com