Sole member of Flanagan & Associates, L.L.C. Flanagan currently concentrates his practice in the areas of health care, corporate, bankruptcy, debtor/creditor rights, commercial law and business workouts primarily involving long term care facilities. Flanagan has assisted numerous owners, operators, lenders, landlords, and indenture trustees on matters involving long term care facilities. Flanagan is well versed in corporate and regulatory matters involving long term care facilities and has developed a special expertise in advising owners, operators, landlords and/or lenders regarding long term care facilities that are experiencing financial or clinical distress. He has acted as borrower’s counsel on matters involving hundreds of millions of dollars in conventional, HUD and tax-exempt bond financing.
Michael F. Flanagan
Member/Manager
November 1997 to present
May 1988 – November 1997
Associate (May 1988 to November 1994) and Equity Shareholder (November 1994 to November 1997) with Polsinelli P.C. During his time at Polsinelli, Flanagan represented numerous clients in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Flanagan drafted and successfully confirmed dozens of Chapter 11 Plans of Reorganization and restructured millions of dollars of debt. Flanagan’s bankruptcy practice required mastering various aspects of corporate, real estate, bond and tax law matters in a variety of businesses and industries in order to effectively represent his clients in their bankruptcy restructurings. As a result, Flanagan has negotiated leases, asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, loan agreements, real estate contracts, debtor in possession financing agreements and cash collateral orders, as well as represented clients in negotiations with various governmental agencies, including CMS, the IRS and EPA.
Professional Associations
Flanagan is licensed to practice in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Nebraska. He is a member of the Corporate, Banking and Business Sections of the American Bar Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association. Flanagan also serves as an outside Director for Central Bank of Kansas City, a community bank with CDFI status that concentrates on making loans in distressed areas of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
Education
Flanagan received his law degree, with distinction, from the University of Iowa in May 1988, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for excellence in Bankruptcy Reorganizations. Flanagan served as a law clerk for The Honorable Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael J. Melloy, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Iowa, who now sits on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. A 1985 graduate of Central College, a liberal arts college in Pella, Iowa, Flanagan was a four (4) year recipient of the Rolscreen Scholarship (the top academic scholarship awarded by Central College).