William K. Fendrick

Keith Fendrick is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Tampa office and a member of the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights Practice Group, Litigation Section, and Financial Services Practice Group. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights, corporate and real estate reorganizations and restructurings, and commercial litigation.

Mr. Fendrick has vast experience assisting numerous banks and financial institutions in a variety of litigation matters in both state and federal courts. Mr. Fendrick has advised lenders in New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) defaults and workouts, commercial real estate defaults and workouts, as well as numerous loan defaults and restructurings. In addition, he represents financial institutions, corporations, insurance companies, and creditor groups in numerous large Chapter 11 cases around the country and in state and federal court litigation. He also works with secured and unsecured creditors in litigation, workouts, non-bankruptcy corporate reorganizations, and acquisitions of troubled businesses.

Mr. Fendrick has been appointed as a receiver for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In that capacity, he has taken over the management and liquidation of a business, the collection of assets and the pursuit of claims and recovery of monies for the creditors and investors of the business. He has represented receivers in state court receiverships involving Ponzi schemes and fraudulent business activities. Mr. Fendrick is a Florida Supreme Court certified Circuit Mediator.

Mr. Fendrick is a former director of the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association. He has been a panelist at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and the Caribbean Insolvency Institute, and has spoken at seminars on Florida asset protection, fraudulent transfers, creditors' rights and remedies and bankruptcy law.