Vincent has more than two decades of business and legal experience. He serves in an of counsel capacity for receivership and bankruptcy matters. In addition to being an attorney, he brings a first-hand perspective to the business process, having owned and operated several businesses including one that was sold to a publicly traded company.

He currently concentrates his practice on an array of multifaceted receivership and insolvency matters including: debtor-creditor relationships, restructuring and turn-around of distressed businesses and asset protection for businesses and their principals. He is a frequent speaker at the Rhode Island Bar Association and at other venues on the topic of conducting successful Chapter 11 reorganization for small, Rhode Island companies.

Recently, Vincent’s served as the Court-appointed receiver for the Victory Square project which involved a property to be developed as a cornerstone of the Providence’s “Knowledge District.” Vincent used both creativity and skill to advance the project in a speedy way, thus avoiding unnecessary expense and delay. He secured tax concessions, loans for environmental clean-up, and master plan approval for a 700,000-square-foot life sciences collaboration between the City of Providence’s hospital campuses and Brown University’s new medical school. Finalization of all proceedings took place in July with private developers ready to step in and take control of the development in August of 2011.

Vincent has handled a variety of complex civil and criminal matters, state and federal tax matters, shareholder and partnership disputes, and real estate development and redevelopment litigation. In fact, he successfully served as lead trial counsel in the second largest money-laundering case in America prosecuted in the 1990s in Rhode Island Federal District Court.

He is active as a member of the Rhode Island Superior Court Bench Bar Committee and chair of its Voir Dire Selection Committee; as a member of the Rhode Island Superior Court Debtor-Creditor Committee and as a member of the Rhode Island Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Bishop Hendricken High School where he chairs its Finance Committee and a member of the Town of Narragansett’s Planning Board.

Admitted to Bar: Rhode Island, 1989; U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island, 1990; U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 1990

Education: Fordham University (B.A. Philosophy and Journalism, 1985); Whittier College School of Law (J.D., 1988)

Publications: Rhode Island Bar Journal, Attorney Practice Guide: Rhode Island Superior Court, May/Jun. 08:7(56)