John Beckstead Elected Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
SALT LAKE CITY – April 3, 2012 – Salt Lake City attorney
John Beckstead, a senior partner of the law firm Holland & Hart, has been selected as a Fellow of the
American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (ACCFL), one of the premier legal associations in the nation.
Mr. Beckstead is the first attorney in Utah to achieve this honor.
Membership in the ACCFL is limited to commercial finance lawyers, jurists and academics who have not only achieved preeminence in the field of commercial finance law, but who also have contributed significantly to the education of others in commercial finance law through teaching, lecturing or published writings.
Less than 250 of the nation’s practicing commercial finance attorneys are ACCFL fellows.
The ACCFL was founded in 1991 by a group of lawyers active in the Commercial Finance Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association to promote high standards of professional and ethical responsibility in the practice of commercial finance law.
Mr. Beckstead’s commercial finance practice includes commercial lending transactions, loan documentation, problem loan workouts, factoring, secured transactions, letters of credit, negotiable instruments, and bank deposits. His experience includes documentation of many multi-million dollar complex loans, restructuring and workout of many complex loans, and liquidation of businesses through court proceedings, through receiverships, and through cooperation of the borrower, and counseling lenders in lender liability matters.
Mr. Beckstead is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (for Banking and Finance Law and Litigation – Banking and Finance), Benchmark Litigation, and has consistently been recognized among the Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine. He holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubble.
A regular columnist for The Commercial Factor, Mr. Beckstead is a frequent speaker, panelist and contributor for groups including the International Factoring Association, American Bar Association, Commercial Finance Association, Utah State Bar, and National Continuing Legal Education Programs.