Ashley S. Rusher

Ashley serves on the firm’s Management Committee and chairs both the Business Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights Practice Group and the Outside General Counsel Services Practice Group. She is an effective, results-driven advocate for her clients. Her background of more than 35 years in business bankruptcies, distressed debt workouts, problem loan recovery, real estate title litigation and commercial litigation provides her with a solid foundation of general business, accounting and legal skills. These skills and experience make Ashley the ideal resource for our business clients who seek general legal counsel on a variety of issues.

Whether assisting a business or financial institution with a distressed debt situation, or guiding a financially sound business client as acting Outside General Counsel, Ashley helps clients reach their business goals by offering pragmatic and efficient solutions.

Ashley devotes her practice to three, often interwoven, practice areas – bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, outside general counsel services, and title curative litigation. She has a regional bankruptcy practice representing financial institutions, trade creditors, parties in adversary proceedings, bankruptcy trustees, parties to leases, creditors’ committees and Chapter 11 debtors-in-possession, in the workout and restructuring of distressed debt. She is in the pool of Chapter 11 Subchapter V trustees for the Middle District of North Carolina and has served as Chapter 11 trustee. She also provides an array of creditor’s rights services to clients including problem loan recovery and asset recovery.

Her experience has made her a trusted advisor to business clients on legal matters as Outside General Counsel. Ashley provides sound legal counseling to clients from a business–centric perspective.

Ashley also represents a number of the largest title companies operating in North Carolina on title curative matters, including actions to quiet title, reformation of recorded instruments, and imposition of equitable liens.