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Courtney Rogers Perrin
Member
Nashville, TN
Member
Nashville, TN
As counsel to companies ranging from start-ups to public, Courtney assists clients with acquisitions, fundraising, and program documentation in the blockchain and electronic payments industries. She also regularly advises on the regulations impacting fintech, such as money services business and securities issues. Clients rely on her breadth of expertise and keen insight, and Courtney appreciates the opportunity to learn about evolving industries.
Courtney also has nearly a decade of experience in corporate restructuring and municipal bankruptcy, representing clients in large transactional and litigation matters, and has served as finance counsel to healthcare companies. She has previously served as a distressed debt and special situations analyst at a large international bank.
Mergers and Acquisitions counsel in over $135 million worth of asset and stock acquisitions spanning the payments ecosystem
Assist multiple clients with setting up payment platforms, for industries ranging from corporate expenses to school expenses to rental payments
Assist a payment platform with revenue share agreements and setting up a payment facilitator program with a payment processor and a bank
Assist a healthcare platform in negotiating a receivables purchase agreement with medical providers and a registered money services business
Assist payment platforms with sponsorship agreement negotiations
Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering, and money services business regulatory compliance counsel for numerous cryptocurrency and blockchain clients, including Bitcoin ATM providers, utility-token-based platforms, and trading platforms
Associate counsel for initial coin offerings
Associate securities counsel for token issuers
General counsel assistance with non-compete agreements, vendor agreements, and fundraising documentation
Counsel to clients on various corporate bankruptcy issues, including 363 sales, credit agreements, distressed debt, intellectual property, and trade creditors’ rights
Counsel to borrowers in out-of-court restructuring of distressed loans
Co-counsel to trustee for $5.7 billion in special revenue water and sewer bonds issue Detroit
Co-counsel to trustee for over $2 billion in sewer bonds in the Jefferson County, Alabama bankruptcy
Counsel to numerous creditors in the Lehman bankruptcy
Counsel to automotive parts suppliers in the Chrysler bankruptcy
Associate counsel to DIP and prepetition lenders in the large, international newsprint bankruptcy of AbitibiBowater
Associate counsel for the Controller for the State of California in actions brought in the BearingPoint bankruptcy
Associate counsel for the debtor in the City of Vallejo municipal bankruptcy
Associate counsel for the asset purchaser of two restaurant chains in bankruptcy
March 18, 2021
University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., 2006
Belmont University, B.S., Political Science, 2003
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Hon. H. Bruce Guyton
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Hon. C. Clifford Shirley
New York, 2007
Tennessee, 2006
U.S. District Court, Middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee
U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
“40 Under 40,” Nashville Business Journal (2020)
BlockDrop Editorial Board
Women in Blockchain (Nashville)
Chamber of Digital Commerce
Nashville Bar Association
Formerly Series 7 and 63 Licensed
Volunteer, Room In the Inn (2014-current)
Board Member and Deacon, Eastwood Christian Church (2015-2018)
Mentor, Big Brother Big Sister Program (2013-2014)
Tribune Bankruptcy, Presentation at The Royal Bank of Scotland Distressed Debt Conference, London, 2010
Podcast, “Energy: Lawyers, Guns, and Cryptocurrency?” The Motley Fool Industry Focus (Feb. 2019)
Co-author, “Op Ed: From Gray To Black and White: Traditional Regulations Come to Crypto“ Bitcoin Magazine (Dec. 2018)
Co-author, “United States: What Prepaid Accounts Are Subject To The New Prepaid Rules?” Mondaq (April 2017)
Municipal Debtors: Cram Down of Special Revenue Debt, by David Lemke, Courtney Rogers, and Blake Roth
Lehman Limits Exercise of Setoff Rights in ISDA Pacts, co-authored by Courtney Rogers, Law360
In re Fedders North America, 405 B.R. 527 (Bankr. D. Del. 2009), by Courtney Rogers, 6 Int’l Corp. Rescue 307 (2009)
“What prepaid accounts are subject to new prepaid rules? What you need to know to be ready.” Article published in the May 2017 issue of DISCLOSURE by The Iowa Bankers Association.
