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Kris Aungst concentrates his practice in complex in and out of court business restructuring matters. Kris has also been involved in numerous bankruptcy litigation matters representing creditors, debtors and chapter 7 trustees. 

Representative Experience

  • Successfully represented Don King Productions, Inc. in a non-dischargeability action against a world champion boxer.
  • Representing the chapter 7 trustee in litigating multiple preference actions.
  • Representing the chapter 7 trustee in Maxim Enterprises and researching and litigating fraudulent conveyance and preference actions.
  • Representing multiple guarantors in defense against a financial institution seeking personal judgments based on purported guarantees.

Professional & Community Involvement

  • The American Bankruptcy Institute
  • The Federalist Society
  • The Alabama Bar Association
  • J. Reuben Clarke Legal Society
  • The Florida Bar Association

Awards & Recognition

  • Recipient for Most Effective Lawyer Award in Bankruptcy, Daily Business Review, 2011
  • Florida's Super Lawyers, "Rising Star" (2011)
  • Received the Order of the Samaritan for volunteer legal service, The Bankruptcy Commercial Law Section Award, Stone and The Granade & Crosby, P.C. Award in Business Organizations

Articles

  • "The Fall of Frenville," Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser (September 2010)
  • Deemed Consolidation: Slightly Liquidated, Somewhat Bankrupt and Other Fairytale Creatures, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, May (2009).
  • Trying to Remove the Trustee? A Tough Road Ahead!, The Federal Lawyer, March/April (2009).
  • Florida courts have yet to decide what duties companies near insolvency have to creditors, with John Eaton, Daily Business Review, January (2009).
  • Current Trends in Single Asset Real Estate Entity Litigation, with Paul Steven Singerman, American Bankruptcy Institute Twentieth Annual Winter Leadership Conference (2008).
  • The Sixth Circuit Decides Parmenter, Right and Wrong?, No. 9 Norton Bankr. L. Adviser 1 (2008).
  • Bankruptcy Sales, Carve Outs, Liquidations & Fiduciary Duties, with Paul Steven Singerman, Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar (2008).
  • Chapter 13,The Alabama Addendum (2005).
  • Are the Johnson Factors Still Relevant?, No. 8 Norton Bankr. L. Adviser 2 (2004).
  • Student Loan Dischargeability: Does the Doctrine of Laches Apply?, 9 Am. Bankr. Inst. J. 42 (2004).
  • Bankruptcy Sales-Free and Clear of Liens and Encumbrances, with Denise Dell-Powell, Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association Eleventh Annual Bankruptcy Seminar (2003).
  • Bankruptcy Sales: Free and Clear of Liens and Encumbrances, Jacksonville Annual Bankruptcy Seminar Materials (2003).
  • Sales Free and Clear & Successor Liability: What Does In re Trans World Airlines, Inc. Teach Us?, 14th Annual Bankruptcy Law Seminar, Cumberland School of Law (2003).
  • The Supreme Court Till(s) for Method to Compute Cramdown Interest Rates, No. 8 Norton Bankr. L. Adviser 3 (2003).
  • Second Circuit Stretches the Concept of “Fresh Start” Under 11 U.S.C. § 525(a), No. 4 Norton Bankr. L. Adviser 3 (2003).
  • Warner Splits the Circuits, No. 2 Norton Bankr. L. Adviser 2 (2003).

Prior Affiliations

  • United States Department of Justice, Honor's Program, Trial Attorney for the United States Trustee's Office
  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Arthur Briskman, United States Bankruptcy Judge, Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division
  • Law Clerk to the Honorable L. Scott Coogler The Honorable L. Scott Coogler, Presiding Judge in Alabama's Sixth Judicial Circuit, Currently United States District Judge, Northern District of Alabama