David J. Messina - Mr. Messina, a partner in the New Orleans office of Chaffe McCall, LLP, has more than 36 years of experience representing a broad base of clients in connection with insolvency and bankruptcy matters. He is board-certified in business bankruptcy law by the American Board of Certification, is a board-certified specialist in business bankruptcy law with the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization, and has been an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Law School teaching Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy for the last 20 years. Early in his legal career, he served as Judicial Law Clerk to The Honorable Louis M. Phillips, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Mr. Messina received Bachelor of Music and M.B.A degrees from Loyola University New Orleans, and earned his J.D. from the Loyola College of Law in 1987, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Loyola Law Review. He is recognized consistently by leading legal and local publications including Best Lawyers in America, Louisiana Super Lawyers and New Orleans Magazine (“Top Lawyers” list) for his work in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights, Insolvency, and Reorganization Law. He is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy law seminars, including multiple appearances over the last 30 years as a speaker at the annual Bankruptcy Law Seminar sponsored and organized by the Louisiana State University Center for Continuing Professional Development and the Louisiana bankruptcy judges. A considerable part of his practice since 1992 involves the representation of bankruptcy trustees in connection with all aspects of their administration of bankruptcy estates, including sales of property, investigation and prosecution of preference, fraudulent conveyance, and other avoidance action claims, prosecution of discharge complaints, objections to exemptions and claims, disgorgement actions, and prosecution of substantive consolidation, alter
ego, and single business enterprise remedies.