Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights

The Allen Matkins Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group is a cohesive team of lawyers with substantial bankruptcy and creditors' rights expertise in the transactional and litigation contexts. We deliver expert counsel on creditors' and debtors' rights in non judicial debt restructurings, state and federal court receiverships, foreclosure proceedings, asset purchases, and Chapter 11 reorganization cases.

The Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights attorneys at Allen Matkins have extensive experience in the negotiation and preparation of transactional and financing documents, workout agreements, deed-in-lieu agreements and forbearance agreements. We are also regularly involved in the filing and prosecution of judicial and non judicial foreclosure proceedings, state and federal receivership proceedings, guaranty actions, adversary litigation (e.g., preferences, equitable subordination and fraudulent-transfer litigation), debtor in possession financing motions, automatic stay relief motions and confirmation and cramdown trials. We routinely represent clients in connection with cash collateral motions, motions to dismiss, complex reorganization plans, bankruptcy court asset sales, and the assumption and assignment of executory contracts and leases.

Representative clients include institutional lenders such as banks, REITS, finance companies, pension funds and insurance companies; manufacturers and retailers; shopping center owners; retail and commercial landlords and tenants; trade creditors; intellectual property licensors and licensees; and Chapter 11 bankruptcy debtors, trustees and official creditors' committees. We have participated in a wide variety of nationally prominent cases inside and outside of California involving agriculture, biotechnology, computer software and hardware, construction, education, golf, publishing, gaming, health care services and products, hotels, manufacturing, real estate, retail, and the travel and entertainment industries.

Allen Matkins' attorneys are problem solvers dedicated to finding the most effective, cost-efficient solutions to the business problems of our clients. Whether this entails multi-faceted workouts involving joint ventures, partnerships, corporations or limited liability companies, complicated tax problems, non judicial foreclosures, or reorganization or liquidation in bankruptcy, we have the expertise to develop the strategies that best serve our clients' short- and long-term goals.

Allen Matkins also represents federal equity receivers appointed at the request of the Security and Exchange Commission or the Department of Labor in cases throughout the United States. These cases involve substantial investigatory work with respect to alleged fraudulent conduct and substantial recovery efforts to mitigate losses to victimized investors and creditors. Several of the cases handled by Allen Matkins are nationally prominent for the size and scope of the fraudulent activity and losses involved.