Venable LLP
Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
Venable's bankruptcy and creditors' rights attorneys are a skilled and experienced complement of professionals concentrating in the bankruptcy, reorganization and workout areas. The attorneys are located in Maryland, New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C., and are supported by the experience of other Venable lawyers working in related areas such as corporate and securities law, tax, finance, real estate, government contracts, legislative affairs, technology, telecommunications, energy, transportation, bioscience, pharmaceuticals, intellectual property (including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets) and labor and employment law. The fifteen attorneys in the group have a wealth of experience in complex national and regional bankruptcy cases, corporate reorganizations, workouts and related litigation.
The bankruptcy and creditors' rights team has been involved in a wide range of matters including representation of:
* debtors, creditors' committees and trustees in significant Chapter 11 cases in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Delaware;
* secured creditors, unsecured creditors, landlords, purchasers of property, stockholders, trustees in bankruptcy and debtors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 cases; and
* banks, substantial corporate clients and governmental entities in prominent national and regional bankruptcy cases; and major secured and unsecured creditors in out-of-court workouts, foreclosures and liquidations.
Our bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigation has involved prosecuting or defending:
* plan confirmation issues;
* executory contract and unexpired lease issues;
* relief from stay actions;
* enforcement of rights against collateral and guarantors;
* reclamation proceedings;
* motions to dismiss or convert bankruptcy cases;
* trustee litigation;
* fraudulent conveyance and preference actions;
* dischargeability litigation;
* proof of claim litigation;
* involuntary bankruptcy filings; and
* other adversary proceedings and contested matters.
Recently we have been involved in noteworthy cases concerning financial industry, health care, national and international import and distribution, food service, transportation and direct response companies, including:
* representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Howard Delivery Services, Inc. in a successful petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving the priority status of unpaid workers' compensation liability insurance premiums;
* acting as co-counsel for CRIIMI MAE Inc., a New York Stock Exchange company, in its successful Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Greenbelt, Maryland;
* acting as Chapter 11 counsel for Greater Southeast Health Care System and Doctors Health, Inc.;
* acting as lead counsel for USA Floral Products Inc. and affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in Delaware;
* representing a major national financial institution in executory contract claim litigation currently ongoing in the Trans World Airlines, Inc. Chapter 11 case in Delaware;
* serving as examiner and counsel to the examiner in the Fas Mart Convenience Stores, Inc. Chapter 11 case in Richmond, Virginia;
* representing a major unsecured creditor in the Boston Chicken Chapter 11 cases;
* acting as counsel to Preston Trucking in its Chapter 11 case; and
* serving as Creditors' Committee counsel in the Chapter 11 cases of Inphomation Communications, Inc., the operator of the Psychic Friends Network, Geonex Corporation, and The Driggs Corporation.
Our recent matters have included:
* advising management, boards of directors and committees of directors of troubled companies before and during Chapter 11 proceedings;
* complex Chapter 11 plan negotiations and litigation of contested plan confirmation issues;
* the emergency appointment of a Chapter 11 trustee;
* cash collateral negotiation and litigation;
* sale of multiple domestic and international businesses in Chapter 11;
* structuring and implementing purchases of businesses and assets from Chapter 11 debtors;
* prosecution and defense of preference litigation and fraudulent conveyance litigation;
* enforcement of the rights of secured creditors;
* single-asset real estate partnership cases; and
* corporate restructuring advice.
Venable LLP
575 7th St NW
Washington DC 20004
Tel: 202 344-4000
Fax: 202 344-8300
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