Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights And Workout

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, Litigation, 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.

News & Events > Arnall Golden Gregory Names 5 New Partners: Jeffrey C. Adams, Henry R. Chalmers, Anthony L. Duncan, Anne F. Gerry, and J. Hayden Kepner Jr. > Darryl Laddin has been appointed to be the Litigation Trustee under the bankruptcy reorganization plan of ETS Payphones, Inc., a Georgia payphone company. > Neil Gordon will Co-chair the NABT (National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees) Spring Seminar in Coral Gables, Fla. March 28-29. He will speak on "Establishing Corporate Insider Liability: From Deepening Insolvency to Avoidance Issues." > Darryl Laddin was quoted in the New York Law Journal in an article titled "Law Firm Withdraws Bid for $1M Retainer in Worldcom Bankruptcy" on October 3. > Prominent Bankruptcy Attorney Joins Growing Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Bankruptcy Practice, October 1. (Press Release) > An article by Jerry Kaplan and Blake Lisenby titled "The Law of Check Clearing: A Primer on the Midnight Deadline Rule of Georgia" was published in the October edition of the Georgia Bar Journal. > Four attorneys from AGG have been included in the 2003-2004 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Congratulations to Randy Evans (Business Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law), Jon Golden (Corporate, M&A, Securities Law), Jerry Kaplan (Bankruptcy, Creditor-Debtor Rights Law) and Bert Levy (Trusts and Estates) for having been selected by their peers as best in their respective specialty areas. For more information, visit BestLawyers.com. > Neil Gordon, the firm's new Bankruptcy partner, has been elected to a three year term to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees ("NABT") and named Co-chair of the NABT's spring 2003 seminar in Coral Gables, Florida. Neil was also recently elected Treasurer for the Southeast Region of the Anti-Defamation League, the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Publications > Eleventh Circuit Considers a Debtor's Obligations Before and After Rejection of a Commercial Lease. - April 2003 Related Practice Areas > > > > Antitrust & Trade Regulation Franchising Litigation Trademarks & Copyrights