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Brent B. Barriere

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Practice Focus

Bankruptcy and Restructuring Class Actions/Mass Actions/MDLs Fraudulent Transfer and Specialized Bankruptcy Litigation Insurance Coverage Lender Liability Ponzi/Banking Schemes

About

Brent Barriere has over 40 years of experience litigating commercial cases, both at Fishman Haygood and at Phelps Dunbar, his former firm. He represents clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes, including bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, securities litigation, breach of contract, business valuation disputes, director and officer claims, error and omission claims, and class actions. 

“Brent is one of the most talented and experienced trial attorneys for complex commercial litigation.” —Litigation: General Commercial Client, Chambers and Partners

Brent has developed a national practice representing trustees and receivers in complex litigation. His work includes serving as receiver’s counsel in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arthur Lamar Adams and Madison Timber Properties, LLC, a case arising from a $100 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors, and as litigation counsel to the trustee in Jalbert v. Raymond James & Associates et al., which involved a failed $330 million bond issuance to construct a wood pellet manufacturing facility in Urania, Louisiana. He also represents the trustee of Cox Operating, LLC and its affiliates in pursuing director and officer liability and fraudulent conveyance claims.

Experience

  • Serves as chief counsel to the receiver in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arthur Lamar Adams and Madison Timber Properties, LLC, No. 3:18-cv-00252 (S.D. Miss), in which the S.E.C. charged the defendants with operating a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
  • Represents chapter 11 unsecured creditors’ committee in action to recover against New York senior living facility’s directors and officers for their mismanagement and breaches of fiduciary duty.
  • Represents Texas bankruptcy trustee in action to recover prepayment penalties assessed by lenders to insolvent corporation and in related action against corporation’s directors and officers for mismanagement and breaches of fiduciary duty.
  • Represents New York creditor trustee in action to recover against directors of global watch manufacturer for breaches of fiduciary duty.
  • Represents chapter 11 debtor in action to recover against Louisiana debtor’s directors and officers for mismanagement and breach of fiduciary duty.

Professional Activities & Community Involvement

Recognitions

Media

  • Speaker, “Professionalism: Looking Back,” Louisiana State Bar Association Ethics & Professionalism: Watch Your P’s and Q’s CLE program, Dec. 6, 2024.
  • Speaker, “The Intersection of ‘Mass Torts’ and Bankruptcy,” Louisiana State Bar Association Complex Litigation Symposium, Nov. 8, 2024.
  • Speaker, “The Intersection of Multidistrict Litigation and Bankruptcy,” American Association of Justice Annual Convention mass torts program CLE, July 19, 2024.
  • Speaker, “The Defendant Filed for Bankruptcy: So Now What Do You Do?” Injury Board webinar, May 16, 2024.
  • Speaker, “The Opening Statement,” Pretoria Society of Advocates and the American College of Trial Lawyers trial advocacy workshop, April 8, 2024.

Credentials

  • J.D., magna cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law, 1981
    • Articles Editor of the Tulane Law Review
    • Order of the Coif
  • B.A., with honors, from Hamilton College, 1977
  • Louisiana
  • Texas
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Notable Rankings

Brent Barriere 2025 Chambers BadgeLegal 500 New Orleans Elite Commercial Disputes Badge 20262026 Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star sealBrent Barriere Best Lawyers 2026 BadgeSuper Lawyers 2026 badge