George E. Frasier
Principal
For more than 30 years, George has represented numerous local, regional and national financial institutions and other parties (primarily creditors) in workouts, bankruptcies, foreclosures and related litigation, and in new loans and leases in the real estate, maritime, fisheries, retail, wholesale, agriculture, environmental remediation and other industries.
He has represented: CoBank and its predecessors in a number of cases, including the reorganizations of Pacific Northwest Sugar Company and Western Farmers Association; Wong’s Electronics Co. in the Hayes Microcomputer case; MNR Energy Systems in the FloWind case; The Travelers Companies in a number of commercial real estate foreclosures and bankruptcies; Citicorp Real Estate, Inc., in workouts of several major loans; First Interstate Bank of Washington in the Marine Power Chapter 11 case; BNY Financial Corp. in the Omega Environmental case; Philip Morris Capital Corporation in the Kemp Pacific Fisheries and Bering Trader cases; the Anheuser-Busch Companies in a major bankruptcy and lender liability case involving a former affiliate; the Farm Credit Administration Receiver and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank in the liquidation of two banks and their portfolios of primarily maritime loans; and the Farm Credit Bank of Spokane in developing and implementing a region-wide program for responding to hundreds of Chapter 12 cases, in a consolidated trial of approximately 100 Chapter 12 cases to determine the “cram down” interest rate, and in a number of other bankruptcy cases.
Education and Admissions
George received his B.A. from the University of Washington, in 1965, and his LL.B. from Stanford University, Order of the Coif, in 1968. He is admitted to practice in Washington, the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Memberships
American Bar Association, King County Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association
