John F. Massouh

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john.massouh@sprouselaw.com
806.468.3337

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John F. Massouh is a Member with Sprouse Shrader Smith PLLC. John’s practice focuses on agricultural law, business and commercial litigation, business bankruptcy law, creditor’s rights, and corporate transactions. He represents a wide range of corporate clients and individuals with challenging litigation, bankruptcy, and corporate matters including nationally known business failures in the cattle and agricultural industries and advising in the purchase of the world’s largest cattle feeding entity.

John is a seasoned litigator with broad experience in business disputes, both prosecuting and defending claims on behalf of his clients.  He has served as lead counsel and local counsel in numerous federal court matters, and has a deep understanding of the local federal courts and their rules and procedures.  John has successfully tried several cases to favorable verdicts and obtained favorable rulings and decisions from state, federal, and bankruptcy courts.

John also has significant experience in the agricultural industry, representing a wide range of clients, including feed yards, livestock procedures, livestock dealers, farmers, ranchers, dairies, agricultural vendors, and financial institutions, in a variety of matters, such as debt collection, cattle care and feeding, lien disputes, grazing issues, fraudulent transactions, and all aspects of agricultural lending.  Additionally, John regularly advises clients on all aspects of their day-to-day business and transactions and acquisitions across the country.

John also handles all types of bankruptcy-related matters and litigation, representing many clients, including leading financial institutions and large publicly traded companies, in complex bankruptcy cases under Chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. He represents both secured and unsecured creditors, as well as interested parties in all aspects of bankruptcy cases, including first-day orders, cash collateral orders, assumption or rejection of leases, relief from the automatic stay, objections to claims, Section 363 sales of assets, preference actions, plan objections, complaints for exception to discharge, and all types of adversary proceedings and contested matters.

John has a nationwide practice and has represented clients with matters in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas.

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