Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy

The firm's attorneys have experience as creditors' counsel in bankruptcy cases under every chapter of the Bankruptcy Code. They advise individuals, businesses, municipalities, and lenders on bankruptcy matters, restructurings, creditors' rights, collections, and pre-bankruptcy workouts. They have also represented buyers and sellers in transactions arising from bankruptcy, insolvency, and liquidation proceedings.

In litigation, the attorneys handle preference actions, fraudulent transfers, lien avoidance, dischargeability disputes, secured creditors' rights, lender liability, breach of contract claims, and other creditors' rights issues. They also represent lessors in proceedings involving lease disputes and represent municipalities in cases concerning adequate assurance of payment.

Representative matters include serving as lead bank counsel for a cotton merchant whose case became the largest bankruptcy in Tennessee at the time; representing trucking companies, freight brokers, warehousemen, manufacturers, and suppliers in preference and avoidance actions; and representing utilities in reorganizations involving ongoing service and assurance of future payment.