The Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights and Workout Practice Group provides valuable knowledge and experience in the areas of commercial debt restructuring, settlements, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights litigation. The group represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, equity security holders, indenture trustees, creditors’ committees and purchasers of insolvent companies. This background, together with our experience in commercial lending transactions and general representation of commercial financial institutions and a broad range of business enterprises, enables us to provide a full spectrum of corporate, financial and bankruptcy services to our clients. Typical types of matters include:

• Purchasing assets from businesses on the verge of or in Chapter 11
• Acquiring companies through Chapter 11
• Negotiating and litigating the terms of debtor-in-possession financing, use of cash collateral, adequate protection and relief from automatic stay
• Participating in the Chapter 11 Plan process, including drafting and confirming creditors’ and debtors’ Chapter 11 plans
• Negotiating and litigating preference, fraudulent conveyance and other avoidance actions
• Out-of-court debt restructuring and workouts
• Dealing with problem real estate and asset-based commercial loans and leases

In these activities, our attorneys also draw from the expertise found in other practice areas of the firm, including the Commercial Lending, Real Estate, Tax and Corporate practice groups, which enables us to create innovative solutions. For more information, please contact one of our attorneys listed below.

>	Attorneys in this area
	Timothy A. Baxter Andrew B. Flake Jerome L. Kaplan - Co- Practice Leader J. Hayden Kepner, Jr. Darryl S. Laddin - Co- Practice Leader		Richard A. Mitchell Felton E. Parrish James P. Smith Ronald C. Thomason Frank N. White