Phillip Kunkel is a Minnesota attorney who concentrates his practice in bankruptcy, receiverships, commercial financing and agricultural and agribusiness financing. He is a frequent lecturer on, among many subject areas, bankruptcy, commercial financing, and receiverships. He has served as a receiver in several receivership cases in Minnesota and has been asked to serve as a Chapter 11 trustee in several unique bankruptcy cases. Mr. Kunkel advises a number of Catholic organizations and other nonprofit clients in his practice area as well as the areas of corporate governance, independence and potential avoidable transfer matters.
Mr. Kunkel is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court and is listed as a “Minnesota Super Lawyer” by Thomson/Reuters. He is also listed with distinction in the publications, “Minnesota’s Best Lawyers,” by Minnesota Monthly and The Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers.
Mr. Kunkel graduated with honors from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota and earned his law degree with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School. He coauthored Business Workouts Manual, West Publishing, 2019; and he is the coeditor of Debtor-Creditor Handbook, Minnesota CLE, 2003-2019.
The expanse of Mr. Kunkel’s notable legal work includes having represented senior lenders in 25 renewable energy projects totaling more than $1.75 billion in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.