Amrit S. Kapai
Amrit S. Kapai is a partner at Dunn Law, P.A. who focuses his practice on insolvency, with an emphasis on bankruptcy and commercial litigation. He regularly represents trustees, fiduciaries, creditors, and debtors, and brings the firm a rare combination of litigation and transactional experience.
On the litigation side, Amrit has represented banks, equipment lessors, and finance companies in breach of contract disputes, guarantor litigation, and replevin matters, including several years at a global law firm representing a multinational banking institution in financial-services litigation under federal and state banking laws. He has prepared and successfully argued numerous dispositive motions and uses alternative resolution tools to end disputes efficiently.
In corporate bankruptcy, Amrit represents trustees, debtors, secured lenders, and other parties in restructurings, out-of-court workouts, and bankruptcy-related litigation. His recent work includes representing a Chapter 7 trustee in a complex avoidance-action portfolio of more than one hundred cases. Before joining Dunn Law, he was a partner at a Chicago corporate restructuring and litigation boutique and a litigation attorney at Mayer Brown LLP, and he interned for bankruptcy judges in the Southern District of Florida and the Eastern District of Missouri.
Outside the office, Amrit serves on the board of the South Florida chapter of the American Heart Association and is an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.
Education
- Washington University School of Law, St. Louis — J.D., cum laude · Associate Editor, Washington University Global Studies Law Review
- Emory University, Atlanta — B.A.
Bar & Court Admissions
- The Florida Bar (2021)
- Illinois State Bar (2011)
- U.S. District Courts: Southern District of Florida; Northern and Central Districts of Illinois; Southern District of Texas, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in those districts
Past Positions
- Goldstein & McClintock LLLP
- Mayer Brown LLP
- Judicial Intern to the Hon. A. Jay Cristol, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida
- Judicial Intern to the Hon. Kathy Surratt-States, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri
Representative Matters
- Represented a Chapter 7 trustee in a heavy avoidance action litigation portfolio consisting of claims for preferential transfers, fraudulent transfers, professional malpractice, and breach of fiduciary duty
- Represented a multi-location pain management clinic in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding
- Represented a high-end restaurant group with multiple locations around the country in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- Represented a prominent downtown Chicago hotel in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding
- Represented a distressed hotel located in Central Illinois in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding
- Represented a conglomerate of eighteen businesses focused on direct mailing and secured card printing, at the time the third largest minority-owned business in the nation, in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- Defended a global banking institution against dozens of claims alleging violations of federal and state banking laws
- Represented numerous secured lenders in corporate restructuring matters by pursuing relief from the automatic stay, seeking adequate protection payments, and negotiating 363 asset sales
- Prepared a victorious appellate brief in the Illinois Second District Appellate Court involving breach of guaranty claims on behalf of an equipment lessor
Professional Associations & Community
- Bankruptcy Bar Association, Southern District of Florida
- Volunteer, American Heart Association, South Florida Chapter
- Advocate for the LGBTQ+ community
Presentations & Publications
- "Fourth Circuit Takes a Stance: Applying the Absolute Priority Rule in Individual Chapter 11 Cases," Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, vol. 9, no. 10 (January 2013)
Honors & Recognition
- Human Rights Campaign — Visibility Award
- Family Equality — Visibility Award
- Emory University "40 Under Forty"
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