Practice Areas | Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights

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For troubled businesses, their creditors and other interested parties, bankruptcy can provide a strategic opportunity to address a wide range of complex financial and legal concerns. Looper Reed & McGraw's bankruptcy attorneys work with clients to assess the numerous alternatives available to them, and to pursue efficient, sophisticated solutions that can help minimize losses, resolve disputes and increase the likelihood of successful outcomes.

Attorneys at Looper Reed & McGraw have significant experience representing all parties involved in bankruptcies, workouts, turnarounds and restructurings. We represent clients in a wide variety of turnaround and failed loan situations, including pre-bankruptcy consensual debt restructurings, workouts of troubled loans, bankruptcy reorganizations, liquidations, receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors. We represent corporate debtors and creditors in bankruptcy courts throughout the country. Our practice also includes counseling clients in structuring transactions with regard to bankruptcy considerations, providing advice regarding alternatives and strategies when dealing with financially troubled parties, representing lenders in providing debtor-in-possession and plan financing and representing asset purchasers and investors in the acquisition of troubled companies or their assets. In addition, we prosecute and defend all types of litigation related to bankruptcy proceedings.

Our clients come from a range of diverse industries, including healthcare, general manufacturing, entertainment, trucking, automotive, food services, wire and cable, e-commerce, aviation, retail, real estate, telecommunications, electronics, publishing and recycling. Our clients include banks, pension funds, non-bank finance companies, institutional investors, indenture trustees, corporate debtors, equity security holders, court-appointed trustees and examiners, official creditors' committees, subordinated debt holders, bondholders, insurance companies, major airports, investment bankers, shopping center developers and managers, and landlords.

Within the firm, we stress a team approach, tapping the strengths and skills of attorneys in other practice groups to provide coordinated, seamless guidance on issues that may develop during bankruptcy proceedings or business restructurings. This integrated approach enables us to provide extensive expertise and unique insight into various industries and practice areas, and allows us to provide legal representation to a wide range of diverse businesses locally, regionally, and nationally. Our collaborative efforts enable us to provide cost efficient, focused, and effective legal representation.

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