Successful representation of creditors and financially troubled businesses requires a thorough understanding of complex laws and creative financial arrangements. An attorney’s ability to artfully blend legal and financial acumen to maximize the value of the distressed organization typically benefits both creditors and debtors alike.
Our attorneys have broad experience in the following areas:
Phillips Lytle stresses an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing attorneys from our Banking & Financial Services, Real Estate, Corporate, Environment, Energy, and Litigation Practices to effectively meet the special requirements for each case and client.
Our Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice encompasses all aspects of federal bankruptcy law as well as state and international laws governing secured transactions, creditors’ rights, fraudulent and other avoidable conveyances, receiverships, cross-border refinancings and restructurings, corporate reorganizations, and real estate. While the historical foundation of the practice is the firm’s representation of financial institutions, our attorneys also represent all types of secured and unsecured creditors; Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and indenture trustees; debtors; landlords; lessees; equipment lessors; acquirers; vendors and suppliers; utilities; and official creditor and equity committees.
Our attorneys have extensive Chapter 11 reorganization and Chapter 7 bankruptcy experience, and regularly deal with a full range of business and litigation issues, including pre- and post-petition financing, cash collateral orders, automatic stay litigation, preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation, contested plan confirmations, sales of claims, asset sales, and plan mergers.
Phillips Lytle has significant experience in complex commercial real estate financing transactions, conventional and asset-based commercial loans, industrial revenue bond financing, leasing transactions of all types, leveraged buy-out lending, syndicated and participation credits, letters of credit, floor plan financing, and timeshare financing. In addition, the Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Team has decades of experience representing creditors and troubled companies in out-of-court restructurings.
Some of the lender and indenture trustee clients the firm has represented publicly are JPMorgan Chase; Bank of America; KeyBank, National Association; HSBC Bank USA, National Association and affiliates; Royal Bank of Canada; National Australia Bank; Generale Bank; CIT; General Motors; General Motors Acceptance Corp.; Ford Motor Credit Company; Siemens; and PNC Bank and affiliates.
Attorneys from the Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Right Team have been involved in bankruptcy cases of national and international significance.
Phillips Lytle has attorneys and paralegals who truly understand the financial services industry and regularly engage in bank-related litigation matters, ensuring the representation our clients need with the efficiency and responsiveness they expect and deserve.
Our litigation attorneys with expertise working specifically with financial institutions achieve successful outcomes in state and federal courts and arbitrations in several areas.
Our litigators also counsel our financial institution clients on dispute avoidance matters and help them develop business strategies to avoid unnecessary exposure to claims. Extensive litigation experience in complex bankruptcies, workouts and financial restructurings is brought to bear for the benefit of our clients in negotiations and litigated matters.