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Business Solutions

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Our Business Solutions Group assists clients in navigating distressed situations, with the recognition that if handled correctly, distress creates opportunity.  

Distress is unique in that it animates all aspects of financial transactions, even those between seemingly healthy companies.  Whether ensuring that payments made in resolution of a litigation are safe from claw back to de risking a financial transaction from the financial consequences post-closing, distress is everywhere. Every client’s relationship to distress is different.  Certain clients, like financially distressed companies, vendors, employees, officers, and directors, may see danger, other clients may see opportunity.  Successfully identifying and navigating these distressed situations is critical.

Successfully unlocking value in distress situations requires a particular set of skills.  These situations require professionals who toe the line between lawyer and business person.  Providing legal advice in distressed situations is more than simply knowing a bankruptcy code or a set of rules, it is recognizing that flexibility is critical.  Certain clients are looking to be protected from the consequences of distress, while others are looking to take advantage of distress and unlock opportunity.  A seasoned distress professional knows how advise clients across a broad spectrum of interests.

We take a multi-disciplinary approach to distress situations.  Our lawyers have experience representing nearly every constituency including debtors, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, judgment holders, employees, boards of directors, and receivers and liquidators.  We work collaboratively with attorneys in other practice groups in order to ensure that all our client’s needs are considered and that creative strategies can be developed.

The firm also has considerable experience in international and cross-border insolvency matters and is led by a Fellow of INSOL International, the international bankruptcy bar.

Our team has represented debtors and creditors throughout the country in some of the nation’s largest and most complex insolvency matters, with specialties in cross-border matters, with accomplishments in this area being recognized by international organizations, including INSOL International.

In addition to advising on core bankruptcy matters – including 363 sales, plan confirmation, debtor in possession financing, and avoidance actions – our lawyers have advised clients on complicated matters such as the unwinding of debtors’ financial products portfolios. We also assist in both out-of-court restructuring and pre-bankruptcy planning.

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