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Robert A. Cox Jr.
Partner 
201 North Tryon Street
rcox@mcguirewoods.comCharlotte, North Carolina 28202 F: 704.353.6197    |
Mr. Cox focuses his practice on financial restructuring and insolvency, including bankruptcy, creditors' rights, commercial workouts, and distressed asset acquisitions. His experience includes representing corporate debtors, creditors' committees, secured lenders, asset acquirers, and other parties in interest in bankruptcy courts throughout the United States.
- US Airways, Inc. as Chapter 11 debtor (E.D. Va.)
- Xybernaut Corporation as Chapter 11 debtor (E.D. Va.)
- Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, Three A's Holdings, LLC (Tower Records) (Delaware)
- Multiple creditors in bankruptcy case of J.A. Jones, Inc. (W.D.N.C.)
- Unsecured creditor and adversary defendant in Fleming Companies (Delaware)
- Named a North Carolina "Super Lawyer," 2012
- Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2009-2012
- Named One of "America's Leading Lawyers," Chambers USA, 2010-2011
- Named One of North Carolina's "Legal Elite," North Carolina, 2008
- Associate, Rayburn, Cooper & Durham, P.A., Charlotte, North Carolina
- Law Clerk, the Hon. J. Craig Whitley, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Western District of North Carolina
- Contributing Author, North Carolina Bankruptcy Practice Manual, (Sixth Ed. 2007 and Fifth Ed. 2003, North Carolina Bar Association Foundation, Inc.)
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Chair, Bankruptcy Section, July 2011 - Present
- Vice Chair, Bankruptcy Section, July 2010 - June 2011
- Bankruptcy Council, 2006-Present
- Chairperson, CLE Committee, Bankruptcy Section, 2005-2006
- Bankruptcy Section, 1997-Present
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Mecklenburg County Bar Association, 1998-Present
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EDUCATION Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, J.D., 1995 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, B.A., 1992 ADMITTED North Carolina 1995 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina 1996 U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina 1998 U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina 2000 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson, Mississippi |