Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights & Business Restructuring

We are a full-service bankruptcy team with the experience needed to get clients their desired results. Our team works on various creditor issues both inside and outside of bankruptcy, including workouts, receiverships, foreclosures, relief from stay, defending preference, fraudulent conveyance and other claims against creditors and lenders, contested proceedings, including the use of cash collateral, and contested plan confirmation matters. We have the depth of knowledge necessary to address any workout or bankruptcy resulting from business or loan transactions and litigation. Our complete services include counseling creditors, detinue, commercial litigation, creditors’ rights issues, Article 9 concerns, commercial collections, attachments, and mechanic’s lien enforcement.

With our experience in administering and enforcing secured and unsecured credit, we provide workout and restructure solutions for many loan types – from simple term loans with real or personal property collateral to complex securitized transactions. We also orchestrate receiverships in various circumstances, securing collateral and/or facilitating sales, whether real or personal property.

Our team includes litigators and transactional attorneys dedicated to advising and assisting parties in enforcing or establishing rights against financially troubled companies and individuals.  

Our multidisciplinary team has the experience and knowledge to help clients recover the maximum amount. Whether a lender with mounting non-performing loans during an economic downturn, or a supplier experiencing longer than usual payment delays, we have a solution for our clients’ needs. We offer clients information on the latest developments and techniques as well as a current and practical understanding of the national and international environment in which they are engaged. Often, we’ll collaborate with other teams in the firm to benefit our clients. We treat our clients as if their money was our own, handling matters with the utmost care and urgency.

We work with everyone from lenders to small business owners to help them get back what is rightfully theirs. We also work with CFOs, loan officers, in-house counsel, and asset recovery teams to reach corporate goals of recovery. In addition, we have experience representing committees, trustees, and receivers.

• Counsel for regional banks in real estate finance loan workouts, foreclosures, and bankruptcies
• Representation of CMBS Servicers in receivership and foreclosure matters
• Counsel for numerous entities in creditors’ rights matters in state courts, federal courts, and bankruptcy courts
• Local bankruptcy counsel for a mega million dollar claimant, the subsidiary of a large retailer, and a professional athlete in their Chapter 11 case
• Local counsel for a national retailer’s Unsecured Creditors’ Committee
• Counsel for the Chapter 11 Trustee in a major auto finance company case
• Receiver for a major computer sales company
• Provide collection and bankruptcy representation to various automotive dealers and lenders

• Credit Union

• Credit Union Client Alert – September 2023
• Bankruptcy Alert – When PPP Wasn’t Enough: Considerations for Lenders When PPP/EIDL Borrowers File for Bankruptcy
• Commercial Real Estate Receiverships: The Closing of the Action and Miscellaneous Matters
• Commercial Real Estate Receiverships: The Sale Process Itself
• Commercial Real Estate Receiverships: The Receiver’s Duties
• Commercial Real Estate Receiverships: History, Factors, and Types of Receiverships
• Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Alert – February 2021
• Creditor Client Alert: Coronavirus Infects New Bankruptcy Law
• Lender Client Alert – January 2020
• Commercial Real Estate Receiverships – An Alternative to Foreclosure?
• Kaufman & Canoles Named to 2018 Edition of US News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”
• Consumer Finance Litigation Alert – Virginia: A Judicial Foreclosure State?
• Consumer Finance Class Actions and Litigations