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Chair
Burton S. Weston
Members
Greg E. Bloom
Michael J. Keane
John P. Kraljic
Afsheen A. Shah
Burton S. Weston
Robert Andrew Wild
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GW's Corporate
Reorganization and Bankruptcy Group provides advice on
corporate reorganizations under federal bankruptcy laws,
business workouts, debt-restructurings, acquisition of
troubled companies and assets out of bankruptcy, claims
trading, debtor-in-possession lending, enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, and asset protection and
debtors’ rights.
The Group’s lawyers have broad experience in
representing sizeable businesses in manufacturing,
service, high technology, and retail sectors in
restructuring their affairs either informally or in the
context of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and have
represented numerous creditors committees, individual
creditors and creditor constituencies in many complex
and highly visible Chapter 11 cases. The Group also
provides advice on all phases of stock and asset
acquisitions of financially distressed companies, of
lending to troubled companies and the general conduct of
business with Chapter 11 debtor entities.
The Corporate
Reorganization and Bankruptcy Group advises our clients
in the following representative areas:
- Preparation and
prosecution of Chapter 11 cases for corporate
debtors
- Representation of
creditors’ committees, creditor constituencies and
individual creditors in reorganization cases
- Asset acquisitions
- Development of
competing plans of reorganization for potential
acquirors of distressed entities
- Claims trading
- Debtor-in-possession
financing
- Defense of
preference and fraudulent conveyance actions
- General business
practices with debtors-in-possession and troubled
companies
- Representation
landlords to Chapter 11 debtors
- Creditor enforcement
rights
- Exempt property and
asset protection issues
- Shareholder rights
- Involuntary
bankruptcies
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