Evan N. Parrott

EVAN is a shareholder and member of Maynard Nexsen’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group, working in the firm’s Mobile, Ala., office. He focuses his practice on the representation of debtors, creditors and other interested parties in all matters involving financial distress, bankruptcy, commercial lending, commercial leasing, reorganization proceedings and debt restructuring. He has represented clients throughout the U.S. in loan workouts, commercial foreclosures, fraudulent transfer and preference actions, adversary proceedings, contested bankruptcy matters, § 363 sales, receiverships and the exercise of Article 9 remedies. He also represents clients in business disputes and commercial litigation in federal and state courts. Previously, he clerked two years for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Neil P. Olack in the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, and one year for U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Cassady in the Southern District of Alabama.

Evan is president of the Paul W. Brock American Inn of Court, Education Director of ABI’s Business Reorganization Committee, immediate past chair of the Alabama State Bar’s Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, an Executive Committee member of the Mobile Bar Association and a former chair of its Bankruptcy Section, Bar Commissioner of the Alabama State Bar in the 13th Judicial Circuit, and ambassador to the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Next Generation Program Class of 2022. He also was named to Mobile Bay Magazine’s “40 Under 40” Class of 2024, to the Leadership Mobile Class of 2022 and to Leadership Alabama’s Alabama Leadership Initiative Class of 2025, and he is listed in Chambers and Partners USA as “Up and Coming” for Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Alabama for 2025, has been noted in The Best Lawyers in America’s “Ones to Watch” for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation – Bankruptcy since 2021, and has been deemed a Mid-South Super Lawyers “Rising Star” for Bankruptcy: Business since 2020. In addition, he has taught multiple courses as an adjunct professor in the Political Science and Law Department at Spring Hill College and has coordinated the school’s moot court program, and he co-moderated an ABI webinar on the subchapter V debt limit.

Raised with his siblings by a single mother who lived paycheck to paycheck, the financial distress and “fresh start” aspects of bankruptcy resonate with him personally. He serves on his firm’s Recruiting Committee and chairs the Mobile Office’s recruiting program. Outside of the office, he volunteers with the Alabama Bankruptcy Assistance Project, and in one of his pro bono cases, he obtained a substantial hardship discharge of most of a debtor’s student loans in a no-asset chapter 7. He also spends most of his time serving children, coaching youth soccer and basketball, and serving on the boards of Family Counseling Center of Mobile and Fostering Together Gulf Coast.