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Anthony & Partners

Stephenie Biernacki Anthony

Managing Partner

Email: santhony@anthonyandpartners.com

Address: 100 South Ashley Drive, Suite 1600

Tampa, FL 33602

Phone: 813.273.5616

Fax: 813.221.4113

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Practice Areas

Bankruptcy Representations
Creditors Rights
Debt Restructure
Lender Liability / Complex Litigation
Representation of Fiduciaries
Specialty Recovery Litigation and Collections
Personal Injury

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Stephenie B. Anthony

About Stephenie Biernacki Anthony

Stephenie is a founding member and the current managing member of Anthony & Partners, LLC, with offices located in Tampa and Bartow, Florida. She is a past President, Chairman and Secretary of the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association, having served on the Association’s Board for eight consecutive years. For two years following admission to The Florida Bar, Stephenie clerked for the Honorable Alexander L. Paskay, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of Florida. Stephenie is a trial lawyer focusing on creditors’ rights, bankruptcy law and commercial litigation. During her career, Stephenie has represented lenders, fiduciaries, and other partiesin-interest in Chapter 11, Chapter 13, and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases. In addition to general civil litigation, Stephenie focuses upon creditor-debtor litigation in breach of contract, foreclosure, replevin, lender liability, and other loan enforcement contexts. Stephenie’s litigation experience includes representation in state and federal trial and appellate courts statewide.

Stephenie is the Managing Partner of Anthony and Partners.

Background

Stephenie is a native of Clearwater, Florida. She attended The Florida State University, on a Florida Academic Scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Science degree, and Stetson University College of Law earning a Juris Doctor degree.

Education

Stetson University College of Law, J.D. (1997)
Honor Roll
Guardian Ad Litem
Public Defender Clinic
Sports, Art & Entertainment Law Society

The Florida State University, B.S. (Finance/Multinational Business Operations, 1994)
Dean’s List
Seminole Torch Bearer
Sigma Kappa
Homecoming Gala Committee

Professional

The Florida Bar (Business Law Section)

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

United States District Court, Middle District of Florida

United States District Court, Northern District of Florida

United States District Court, Southern District of Florida

United States Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida

United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Florida

United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida

Federal Bar Association

Hillsborough County Bar Association

Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers – Member (1999 – Present), Board of Directors (2007-2014)

Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association – Member (1999 – Present), Board of Directors (2007-2015),

Officer (2011-2015), President (2013-2014), Immediate Past President (2014-2015)

Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida

Central Florida Bankruptcy Bar Association

Southwest Florida Bankruptcy Professional Association

American Bankruptcy Institute

Hillsborough County Juvenile Diversion Program- – Teen Court Judge

Madison Who’s Who

Martindale-Hubbell rated AV since on or as of 2011, peer review rated “preeminent” in terms of proficiency and legal ethics

Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite, July 2012, July 2014, July 2015, July 2016, July 2019

Bankruptcy Law Educational Series Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors-Treasurer (2014-2015); Secretary (2015-2016)

National Association of Professional Women (Member)

Litigation Council of America (Fellow from 2015 to current)

Lawyers of Distinction (2021)

Publications

Author, “Section 707 (b) Dismissal of Consumer Debtor’s Chapter 7 Case, Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law” (2002)

Author, “Eleventh Circuit: Chapter 7 Debtors Concealing Tort Claims from Creditors Will Lose Those Claims,” (2004)

Lorman speaker on the topic “A Practical Guide to Representing Creditors in Bankruptcy” (2010)

Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite, July 2014, July 2021

40th Annual Alexander L. Paskay Memorial Bankruptcy Seminar Panel Speaker on Chapter 11 PreConfirmation Issues: “Motions to Dismiss – Is Phoenix Piccadilly Still Alive?” April 1, 2016

Stephenie also regularly makes presentations to bank clients and paralegal associations

Civics

Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Hillsborough County Leadership Council

Paint Your Heart Out Tampa (Team Captain)

Pinellas County Habitat for Humanity (Team Captain)

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A few years ago, I obtained a $5,500,000 judgment for a client of mine against some people who I believed were insolvent...
— Veteran Trial Lawyer and Fifteen-Year Client

A few years ago, I obtained a $5,500,000 judgment for a client of mine against some people who I believed were insolvent. I asked John Anthony if he would accept 20% of the net recovery together with all attorneys’ fees and costs as a contingent fee for collecting the judgment. He accepted, and he made over $1,000,000. I am glad he did, because our client and I were paid in full. Now, I have recently obtained a judgment of over $60,000,000 against some other people, and my client and I have once again entrusted the matter to John Anthony. He knows how to collect assets by way of enforcing a judgment, and I know no one better.

- Veteran Trial Lawyer and Fifteen-Year Client

“I have worked with John since 1995. At the time, I was a panel chapter 7 trustee. In the years since, I have been involved in hundreds of business insolvency matters as a professional fiduciary appointed by Federal and State courts. John has been a lawyer for me in all of these fiduciary capacities. He has represented me as chapter 11 trustee in a large case that involved investigation and pursuit of gross business mismanagement. In connection with that case, the former principal of the business was recently sentenced to approximately 250 years in jail. He has represented me as assignee for benefit of creditors, as a chapter 7 trustee, and in other related fiduciary capacities...

- Professional Insolvency Fiduciary and Certified Forensic Accountant

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