200 East Saint Julian Street
PO Box 9848
Savannah, GA 31412-0048
Tel 912.236.0261
Fax 912.236.4936
Francesca Macchiaverna represents clients in business-to-business commercial debt collection. She is an experienced litigator who concentrates her practice in disputes involving business and commercial debts and pursuing claims and liens for creditors in the state and federal courts of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Francesca’s clients are banks, specialty finance firms, credit analysts, commercial landlords, property managers, heavy equipment dealers, and businesses extending credit to finance sales of goods and services. She provides services in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, real estate foreclosures, workouts and loss mitigation, adversary proceedings, preference defense, landlord-tenant matters, mechanic’s liens and bonds, health care, probate claims, and judgment collection, including foreign judgments.
Francesca was certified as a Circuit Court Mediator in the state of South Carolina in 2013.
Francesca has an AV Preeminent Rating, indicating high ethical standing, from Martindale-Hubbell.
Francesca is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Georgia and South Carolina as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2022, she was admitted to the North Carolina bar. She is a member of the Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Sections of the State Bar of Georgia, the Savannah Bar Association, and the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. She is also a member of the South Carolina bar, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, and the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association. Francesca is a frequent presenter at professional education programs on bankruptcy, credit issues, and commercial landlord-tenant topics, and she formerly authored the Greater Savannah Apartment Association legal newsletter for many years.
She received her B.A. from Emory University and her J.D. from the University of South Carolina. While in law school, she was on the editorial board and served as the articles editor for the South Carolina Environmental Law Journal.
Currently, Francesca’s primary community activity is serving as the treasurer of TEDxSavannah. She is married with two daughters.
University of South Carolina School of Law: J.D., 1999
Emory University: B.A., 1994
South Carolina Circuit Court: The Honorable James E. Lockemy
Georgia Super Lawyers: Business Litigation, 2023
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Martindale-Hubbell: AV Rated
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May 10, 2023
By Francesca Macchiaverna, as published by Legal Newswire The term “dockominium” is not defined in the Georgia Condominium Act or Georgia case law. Dockominiums as an interest in land are…
May 31, 2017
By Francesca Macchiaverna, published from May 2015 to May 2017.
January 20, 2016
By Francesca Macchiaverna Special to Business in Savannah January is an important time to set goals, finalize budgets, and strategize for the year ahead. The new year also presents an…
Bankruptcy Subchapter V
CLE virtual event presented by Francesca Macchiaverna, Christine Brimm, and Kerk Spong for the South Carolina Bankruptcy Lawyers Association on September 21, 2021.
Bankruptcy Issues as a Result of COVID-19 – Small Business Reorganization Act and CARES Act
Francesca Macchiaverna served as a panelist for this webinar by ALFA International’s Business Litigation Practice Group on May 5, 2020.
Bank it! A Game That Tests Your Bankruptcy Knowledge – a PowerPoint gameshow based on $100,000 Pyramid
ALFA International Client Seminar presented by Francesca Macchiaverna on behalf of the Bankruptcy Working Group from February 28 to March 2, 2019.
Ethics: Jeoparody! – a PowerPoint gameshow based on Jeopardy!
Presented at the Coastal Bankruptcy Law Institute Seminar on April 20, 2018.
Landlord Tenant Law Seminar
Presented for the Greater Savannah Apartment Association on April 21, 2016.
Credit Presentation for the National Association of Credit Management Seminar
Presented in Savannah, Georgia, on March 10, 2016.
Francesca Macchiaverna is a partner at HunterMaclean. In this video for Savannah CEO, she talks about the Firm’s community involvement and her work with the Coastal Heritage Society.
Francesca Macchiaverna is a partner at HunterMaclean. In this video for Savannah CEO, she talks about her practice dealing with foreclosures and workouts, mostly for commercial businesses.
Francesca Macchiaverna is an attorney with HunterMaclean. Her primary practice is representing creditors in bankruptcy cases and pursuing claims against creditors by debtors.
February 9, 2023
HunterMaclean, a business law firm with offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island, was recently honored with the selection of eleven attorneys as 2023 Georgia Super Lawyers and three attorneys…
May 5, 2020
HunterMaclean partner Francesca Macchiaverna served as a panelist for this webinar by ALFA International’s Business Litigation Practice Group on May 5, 2020. Other panelists included David A. Lerner and Denise…
March 20, 2020
COVID-19 has created unanticipated challenges for businesses of every size and across every industry. These challenges are requiring businesses to use their judgment, knowledge, and experience to maintain operations and…
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