Overview
Clients facing bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues contend with highly complex challenges that require creative, effective and cost-efficient solutions.
Drawing on our extensive real estate, land use and environmental expertise, Allen Matkins develops the innovative, pragmatic strategies and solutions that best serve our clients’ short- and long-term goals and create longer-term advantages.
We work in a diverse set of areas of varying levels of complexity, including:
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Multi-faceted workouts involving joint ventures, partnerships, corporations or limited liability companies
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Complicated tax problems
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Non-judicial foreclosures
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Reorganization or liquidation in bankruptcy
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Cash collateral motions
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Complex reorganization plans
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Bankruptcy court asset sales
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Assumption and assignment of executory contracts and leases
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Creditors and debtors’ rights in:
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Non-judicial debt restructurings
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State and federal court receiverships
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Foreclosure proceedings
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Asset purchases
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Chapter 11 reorganization cases
We advise and represent clients in the following areas:
We also assist with filing and prosecuting:
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Judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings
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State and federal receivership proceedings
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Guaranty actions
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Adversary litigation (e.g., preferences, equitable subordination and fraudulent-transfer litigation)
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Debtor in possession financing motions
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Automatic stay relief motions
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Confirmation and cramdown trials.
Representative clients include:
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Banks
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REITs
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Finance companies
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Pension funds
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Insurance companies
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Manufacturers and retailers
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Shopping center owners
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Retail and commercial landlords and tenants
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Trade creditors
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Intellectual property licensors and licensees
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Chapter 11 bankruptcy debtors, trustees and official creditors’ committees
Allen Matkins also represents federal equity receivers appointed at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Department of Labor in cases throughout the United States.