The members of our Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Distressed Investing Practice Group have extensive national experience representing debtors and lenders in Chapter 11 proceedings and in out-of-court workouts and restructurings. We regularly serve as counsel to businesses with unsecured claims and complex contractual relationships with Chapter 11 debtors. The group also represents clients involved with the acquisition of distressed businesses, assets, and loans. Our litigators have significant trial experience in bankruptcy-related litigation, including avoidance actions, claims objections, contested confirmation hearings, objections to discharge, and complaints to determine dischargeability.
The members of our Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Distressed Investing Practice Group have extensive national experience representing debtors and lenders in Chapter 11 proceedings and in out-of-court workouts and restructurings. We regularly serve as counsel to businesses with unsecured claims and complex contractual relationships with Chapter 11 debtors. The group also represents clients involved with the acquisition of distressed businesses, assets, and loans. Our litigators have significant trial experience in bankruptcy-related litigation, including avoidance actions, claims objections, contested confirmation hearings, objections to discharge, and complaints to determine dischargeability.
We serve a diverse client base of businesses and lenders across a wide range of industries, including financial services, construction, real estate development, health care, automotive, manufacturing, and retail. Our attorneys also regularly counsel municipalities and other public entities in restructuring matters.
Our secured creditor clients include major financial firms, such as Regions Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Synovus, Fifth Third Bank, Republic Financial Corporation, Madison Capital Management, LLC, and numerous regional and local banks and financial institutions. We represent bondholders and indenture trustees in reorganization and liquidation cases both in and outside of bankruptcy. The group works with lenders on complex transactions, as well as structuring and documenting all types of workout agreements. We handle a broad range of matters for these clients, including negotiated, out-of-court workouts; negotiated or contested Chapter 11 plans; debtor-in-possession financing; stay relief; and receiverships. Our attorneys have experience dealing with all types of assets, including real estate, accounts, inventory, equipment, and intellectual property.
We also represent a wide range of unsecured creditors that have sold goods or services to, or entered into leases, supply agreements, or other contracts with, companies that find themselves in financial distress. Our creditor clients include individual companies and unsecured creditor committees, along with utilities and landlords. We work to preserve our clients’ interests in reorganization and liquidation cases, often filing involuntary bankruptcies or proposing Chapter 11 creditor plans.
Our attorneys serve as counsel to debtors in out-of-court business restructurings and Chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations. The group primarily works with corporate entities, but also with individuals engaged in business. Our aim is to help clients emerge from Chapter 11 as soon as possible to preserve enterprise value for creditors and shareholders, and we conclude a high rate of cases with a confirmed plan.
Another significant area of our work involves assisting buyers in acquiring distressed assets. Troubled companies frequently sell valuable operations or properties to streamline their balance sheets, reduce debt, or increase cash flow. This can present tremendous opportunities for buyers, and bankruptcy offers them unique safeguards, such as bidding protections and insulation from existing liens and successor liability claims.
The litigators in the firm’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Distressed Investing group have broad experience handling complex cases involving a wide range of issues. We frequently defend clients against claims brought by Chapter 7 trustees and Chapter 11 debtors, and have a consistent record of settling large cases on attractive terms. Other types of litigation handled by the group include reclamation claims, contract assumption, discharge litigation, avoidance action and other defense work, and financial services litigation.