Experience

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITORS RIGHTS

• Prosecution and defense of preference and fraudulent conveyance actions
• Representation of secured and unsecured creditors on various bankruptcy matters including claim litigation
• Representation of numerous financial service companies
• Representation of financial institution as trustee for economic development revenue bonds

CREDITOR REPRESENTATION

• Financial institutions with secured claims to all types of real and personal property
• Secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 proceedings
• Auto industry lender with security interest in inventories of used automobiles
• Committee of equity security holders of publicly-traded company
• Agribusiness lenders
• Creditors with reclamation and other claims

REAL ESTATE AND MECHANIC'S LIEN FORECLOSURES AND WORKOUTS

• Foreclosures on all types of commercial property, including shopping malls
• Foreclosures on residential property
• Bond holders and bond trustees in workouts
• Mechanic's Lien foreclosures on commercial and residential property
• Appointment and representation of receivers
• Replevin orders on personal property
• Debtors and creditors in workouts, including debt restructurings

ADVERSARY PROCEEDING REPRESENTATION

• Wholesale produce suppliers to recover preference payments
• Individual farmers to recover preference payments made under deferred pricing grain sales contracts
• Publicly-held company in fraudulent conveyance action
• Individual in fraudulent conveyance and equitable subordination action

DEBTOR REPRESENTATION

• Limited partnership debtors in single asset Chapter 11 cases
• Automobile dealership debtor in Chapter 11 case
• Special counsel to defend tax claims
• Chapter 7 debtors
• Foreign Chapter 11 Trustee and Estate in civil action in U.S. to determine asset ownership

BASIC COLLECTION REPRESENTATION

• Agribusiness debts owed for purchases of fertilizer, chemicals and all other farm related products
• Guarantees and promissory notes
• Municipal claims for medical expenses and for property damage claims
• Contractor and subcontractor claims for conventional and residential construction property
• All types of automobile industry matters

DEFENSIVE REPRESENTATION

• Defense of alleged violations of Fair Credit Billing Act
• Defense of alleged violations of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

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