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Litigation & Counseling

Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy

Financial distress presents complex challenges that require creative solutions. Allen Matkins' attorneys are problem solvers dedicated to finding effective, cost-efficient solutions to the business problems facing our clients. Allen Matkins' attorneys' advise clients across the financial distress spectrum, including debt restructurings and workouts, all aspects of bankruptcy proceedings, strategic acquisitions and dispositions, state and federal receiverships, and foreclosure proceedings.

EXPERIENCE

We work in a broad array of proceedings inside and outside the courtroom, including:

  • All aspects of complex chapter 11 and chapter 7 bankruptcy cases, including:
    • Assumption and assignment of contracts, leases and licenses;
    • Contested plan proceedings, including cram-down and valuation litigation;
    • Relief from the automatic stay litigation; and
    • Adversary litigation, including preference and fraudulent-transfer avoidance, equitable subordination, and claim objections
  • Out-of-court restructurings, workouts, and strategic acquisitions and dispositions
  • Insolvency-related litigation and guaranty enforcement
  • Judicial and nonjudicial foreclosures of real and personal property
  • State and federal receiverships

Representative creditor clients include: 

  • Lenders
  • Investment funds
  • Special servicers
  • Finance companies 
  • REITs 
  • Pension funds 
  • Insurance companies 
  • Manufacturers and retailers 
  • Franchisors and franchisees

Representative creditor clients include: 

  • Lenders
  • Investment funds
  • Special servicers
  • Finance companies 
  • REITs 
  • Pension funds 
  • Insurance companies 
  • Manufacturers and retailers 
  • Franchisors and franchisees

RECOGNITIONS

The 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America recognized 40 Allen Matkins attorneys. David L. Osias named San Diego Litigation-Bankruptcy "Lawyer of the Year" in the 2016 edition.

  • Our Strengths  Include

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  • Bankruptcy Trustees and Examiners

  • Committees of Creditors and Equity Holders

  • Debtor-in-Possession Lenders

  • Distressed Businesses

  • Equity Holders and Management

  • Licensors and Licensees of Intellectual Property

  • Parties in Structured-Finance Transactions

  • Parties to State and Bankruptcy Court Litigation

  • Purchasers of Distressed Assets

  • Real Property Owners, Including Office, Industrial and Retail Landlords

  • Receivers

  • Secured Creditors

  • Unsecured Creditors

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