Providing efficient strategies and practical solutions to achieve the best outcome for clients facing insolvency or dealing with financially-distressed parties.
When a debt restructuring, workout, bankruptcy, receivership, foreclosure, distressed asset transaction or other insolvency-related matter arises, it is vital to have a legal partner that knows what to expect. With experience representing the interests of debtors, creditors and interested third parties, our bankruptcy and debtor-creditor relations attorneys have years of experience advising clients in a broad range of bankruptcy, reorganization and debt restructuring matters including transactions, related litigation and appeals.
Leveraging knowledge from both sides enhances our ability to identify risks and provide practical solutions to help clients with the challenges they face. We represent debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bankruptcy trustees, bondholders and other parties whose interests are affected when a business or individual files or considers filing bankruptcy. When complex insolvency issues intersect with regulatory, tax, public finance, securities, agriculture and other specialized areas of law, our debtor-creditor attorneys can draw on the unparalleled subject-matter expertise of a full-service firm to provide comprehensive representation.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Comprehensive legal and business support
- Creative strategies and innovative solutions for creditors interacting with the bankruptcy process
- Extensive experience in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy insolvency proceedings, debt workouts and litigation of debtor-creditor issues
- Integrated team to leverage in-depth industry knowledge and attorney experience across the firm
CAPABILITIES
- Representation of creditors and parties in interest in proceedings under Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code
- Representation of creditors in complex Chapter 11 reorganizations
- Representation of creditors, bondholders and bond trustees in complex Chapter 9 proceedings
- Non-bankruptcy litigation and workouts
- Adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court including preference actions, avoidance of fraudulent conveyances and other avoidance actions
- Bankruptcy Code §363 asset sales and purchases
- Bankruptcy claims administration, claims transfers and disputed claims resolution
- Bankruptcy contested matters including plan confirmation, relief from automatic stay and adequate protection issues
- Landlord/tenant issues in the bankruptcy context including assumption, rejection, termination and renegotiation of leases
- Protection of trust assets in bankruptcy
- Resolution of issues related to closely held, family-owned businesses when an interest holder seeks bankruptcy protection
- Arbitration and mediation of insolvency issues
- Real estate foreclosure proceedings
- Personal property replevin
- UCC Article 9 secured transactions
- Commercial construction litigation
- Mechanics and Materialmen’s liens
- Lender liability litigation
- Collections actions
- Judgment renewals
- Garnishments