Joseph M. VanLeuven

Partner

T 503.778.5325 Portland
In insolvency matters, cost/benefit analysis guides my approach: net money is always the object.
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Joe VanLeuven is a debtor-creditor lawyer. He helps clients enforce and collect loans and other debts, buy distressed assets, protect their rights in bankruptcies, and structure loans and transactions to minimize bankruptcy risks.

He has experience with a broad range of industries and types of collateral, including some that present unique issues, such as film finance, dairies, food processors, trademarks, aircraft, and franchise restaurants.

Practice Highlights

Credit recovery

Represent banks and asset-based lenders in loan collection, enforcement, and restructuring, in and out of bankruptcy.

M&A

Represent clients in a wide variety of M&A transactions in financial distress situations and bankruptcies, ranging from asset purchases, assumption and assignment of contracts, and sales of businesses, with a recent focus on intellectual property such as trademarks, IP licenses, and internet-related assets.

Transactional advice

Provide bankruptcy advice in complex transactions, financings and licensing deals, and advise clients caught-up in customer, vendor and landlord bankruptcies.

Admitted to Practice

  • Oregon, 1982
  • U.S. District Court, District of Oregon, 1982
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1988

Education

  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1982, cum laude
  • B.A., History, Reed College, 1978
    • Phi Beta Kappa

Memberships & Affiliations

    • Instructor, "Asset Sales in Bankruptcy," Lorman Education Services CLE, 2009
    • Instructor on the topics of Chapter 12 bankruptcy, agricultural liens and forbearance agreements, Western School of Agriculture Lending, Reno, Nev. July 2006 & 2007

Professional Recognition

    • Named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" by Chambers USA in Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Oregon), 2022-2024
    • Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" by Best Lawyers in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2010-present; in Commercial Litigation, 2025-present
    • Selected to "Oregon Super Lawyers," Thomson Reuters, 2006, 2011-2023
    • Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, by Best Lawyers, 2010-present
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