B r a n d y A . S a r g e n t
Experience
Brandy Sargent focuses on providing legal services to agribusiness clients including producers, processors and handlers of agricultural products; agricultural cooperatives; agricultural lenders; and practices in Stoel Rives' Corporate group. She focuses her practice on corporate reorganization, workouts and bankruptcy, as well as agricultural contracting and enforcement. She represents debtors, lenders, vendors, purchasers and official and unofficial committees in a variety of commercial and agricultural bankruptcy, workout and litigation matters. Brandy also assists clients with business counseling, contract development, and enforcement actions related to agricultural transactions, including Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) regulation,
Food Security Act (FSA) compliance, agricultural and warehousing lien enforcement and defense, and Uniform Commercial Code matters.
Associate, Quarles & Brady LLP, Chicago, Illinois, 2003-2004; associate, Altheimer &
Gray, Chicago, Illinois, 1999-2003; law clerk, Daniel Harris and Howard Prosnitz,
Chicago, Illinois, 1997-1998; judicial extern, Honorable George M. Marovich, U.S.
District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1997.
Representative Work
 Represented national agricultural cooperatives in successfully asserting setoff rights related to complex feeding, co-packaging, and sales contracts in dairy, creamery, and cattle-related bankruptcies
 Represented national agricultural cooperatives, nursery, and commodity suppliers, in perfecting and recovering payment under Oregon's agricultural services and produce liens
 Represented nationally known winery and commodity supplier in recovering payments under California's processor and seed supplier liens
 Represented producer in recovering large receivable through informal Perishable
Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) complaint
 Represented food processor in recovering PACA claims in ice cream manufacturer bankruptcy
 Represented numerous corn suppliers in successfully defending against preference claims in large bio-diesel manufacturer's bankruptcy
 Represented national agricultural lender in obtaining full recovery of real estate loans to bankrupt dairy
Professional Honors and Activities
Of Counsel
Portland, OR
(503) 294-9888 direct
(503) 220-2480 fax brandy.sargent@stoel.com
Education
 Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D.,
1999
Order of the Coif
Dean's List
 Loyola University, B.A., 1995, summa
cum laude
Dean's List
 Loyola University, Rome, Italy, 1993-
1994
 Agribusiness Seminar, Harvard Business
School Executive Education, Jan. 2015
Admissions
 Oregon
 California
 Illinois

B r a n d y A . S a r g e n t
 Member, Food Alliance, Board of Directors, 2014-present
 Selected as an Oregon Rising Star, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights, 2008-2013
 Member, Oregon State Bar, Debtor-Creditor Executive Committee 2006-2008
 Member, Oregon State Bar, Debtor-Creditor Editorial Board, 2006-present
 Secretary, Oregon State Bar, Agricultural Section Executive Committee, 2015-present
 Member, Oregon State Bar, Agricultural Section Executive Committee, 2012-2015
 American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects (Scribes), 1998 Best Brief
Presentations
 "Perishing Security - PACA and the Secured Lender,” ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting, April 2015
 "Have You Got That Milk in Writing? Recurring Issues in Dairy Transactions," American Agricultural Law Association Symposium,
Nov. 2013
 "Now What? - Evaluating Your Position Upon a Counterparty's Bankruptcy," University of Wisconsin Farmers Cooperatives
Conference, Nov. 2009
 "Bankruptcy Issues in Business Transactions," Stoel Rives University, Jul. 2008
Publications
 Digital Potatoes, Pears and Pumpkins: The Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Trust in the Electronic Age, Oregon Debtor-
Creditor Newsletter, Winter 2008
 Creditor's Counsel Can't Ignore the Bankruptcy Bill, Oregon Debtor-Creditor Newsletter, Spring 2006