The Bankruptcy and Financial Law Group at Davis Malm handles complex and sophisticated financial issues related to insolvency or financial default for a wide variety of businesses, including:
- Domestic business corporations, both publicly traded and privately held
- Financial Institutions
- Investment and/or mutual funds
- Venture capital firms
- Real estate and other partnerships
- Equipment financiers
- Other professional firms
- Foreign businesses and investors
- Not-for-profit corporations
- Individuals
We also pride ourselves on the diversity of the clients we have represented in chapter 11 reorganization and receivership proceedings. These clients have included:
- Debtors
- Lenders
- Investors
- Creditors Committees
- Acquirers
- Chapter 11 Trustees
- Professional firms seeking fee recoveries
- Receivers
The group's background and training is necessarily diverse, drawing from all essential disciplines at the firm necessary to solve complex financial problems. We also have considerable experience in particular industries, business sectors and markets adding significant value to our service. Of particular note, we:
- Have experience with more than a dozen hotel/hostelry
related bankruptcies and/or financial restructures, representing both lenders
and borrowers
- Have participated in numerous chapter 11 reorganization proceedings
for retail enterprises, including representation of the operator of a 40-store
ladies apparel business covering eight northeastern states
- Frequently represent creditors and creditors committees in high
technology business failures and reorganizations
- Have worked on a number of health care insolvency matters and financial
restructures
- Regularly represent professional firms, including big six accounting
firms, in connection with collection of professional fees in bankruptcy
proceedings
- Have considerable experience in the restructure of municipal finance
transactions and representation of bond investors or trustees in connection
with bankruptcies involving municipal finance
- Represent several venture capital firms with respect to insolvency
matters arising with respect to their portfolio companies
- Have represented one of America's oldest public corporations in
the divestiture and refinance of more than $200 million in assets in 15
states as part of a successful workout with its secured lending group
- Have successfully defended shareholders of many closely held businesses from hostile efforts by their business partners to wrongfully oust them from the business.
We take pride in our ability to find creative solutions,
whenever possible, to pre-bankruptcy workout negotiations and out-of-court
financial restructuring in order to avoid the cost and uncertainty of bankruptcy.
