About Daniel
Dan Sparks is head of Christian & Small’s Creditor & Lender Rights Practice Group. He focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and business litigation involving creditors’ rights, consumer finance, lender liability and injunctive relief. Dan represents commercial lenders, debt buyers, corporations, Trustees, individuals and other secured and unsecured creditors in all aspects of commercial litigation, loan workouts, loan restructuring, asset recovery, foreclosure and adversary proceedings in bankruptcy.He spends a significant amount of his time representing creditors in all bankruptcy courts in Alabama and the Southeast. Among his extensive list of clients are several financial institutions, including Federal Express Credit Association, Synovus Bank, Aliant Bank, First Commercial Bank, Bank of Tuscaloosa, Commercial Bank and Trust, Coastal Bank, Regions Bank, Oakworth Capital Bank, Alamerica Bank and First Partners Bank.
Dan Sparks is head of Christian & Small’s Creditor & Lender Rights Practice Group. He focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and business litigation involving creditors’ rights, consumer finance, lender liability and injunctive relief. Dan represents commercial lenders, debt buyers, corporations, Trustees, individuals and other secured and unsecured creditors in all aspects of commercial litigation, loan workouts, loan restructuring, asset recovery, foreclosure and adversary proceedings in bankruptcy.
He spends a significant amount of his time representing creditors in all bankruptcy courts in Alabama and the Southeast. Among his extensive list of clients are several financial institutions, including Federal Express Credit Association, Synovus Bank, Aliant Bank, First Commercial Bank, Bank of Tuscaloosa, Commercial Bank and Trust, Coastal Bank, Regions Bank, Oakworth Capital Bank, Alamerica Bank and First Partners Bank.
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Bankruptcy, Birmingham (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law, Birmingham (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Birmingham (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law, Birmingham (2022)
- Lawyer of the Year: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Birmingham (2018)
- Recognized: Banking and Finance Law
- Recognized: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Recognized: Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Recognized: Commercial Litigation
- Recognized: Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Recognized: Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Recognized: Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
- Recognized: Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Special Focus: Banking
- Special Focus: Bankruptcy
- Special Focus: Bankruptcy and Creditors'-Debtors' Rights
- Special Focus: Breach of Contract
- Special Focus: Business Disputes
- Special Focus: Civil Litigation
- Special Focus: Commercial
- Special Focus: Commercial Disputes
- Special Focus: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
- Special Focus: Creditors' Rights
- Special Focus: Foreclosures
- Special Focus: Lender Liability
- Special Focus: Litigation
- Special Focus: Out-of-Court Workouts
- Special Focus: Trustee Representation
- Special Focus: Workouts and Restructurings
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the fields of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights; insolvency and reorganization law; commercial litigation; bankruptcy litigation; and banking and finance litigation
- Recognized in Chambers USA for Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Alabama
- AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected for inclusion in Alabama Super Lawyers® Top 50 Attorneys in Alabama
- Selected for inclusion in Alabama Super Lawyers® in the field of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights
- Listed as one of the Birmingham Business Journal’s “Best of the Birmingham Bar”
- Listed as “Top Attorney” in fields of banking and bankruptcy for Birmingham Magazine