Companies caught up in the uncertainty of financial distress benefit from the knowledge of trusted legal counsel. Husch Blackwell has extensive experience advising all the major constituencies involved in commercial bankruptcy proceedings and non-bankruptcy restructurings, including debtors, trustees, secured creditors, creditors committees, suppliers, lessors, landlords, franchisors, purchasers, and equity holders.
As national and regional counsel, we manage insolvency law matters and creditors’ rights matters in jurisdictions across the country and internationally. Our case management system is tailored to clients’ information and reporting needs and allows secure, 24/7 access to case information. We have developed and managed a network of local insolvency and commercial bankruptcy counsel to ensure clients receive the best, most cost-effective legal representation.
Our team has experience in complex financial restructurings and liquidations. We have represented clients in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases filed in recent years, including:
We can advise you on all aspects of litigation in state and federal courts. Along with representing clients in enforcing loan documents, leases, and contract actions, we participate in alternative dispute resolution. This approach often enables clients to reduce litigation costs and to resolve differences quickly. Our team is also involved in various stages of intellectual property, employment, tax, and other litigation matters handled by the firm.
We have extensive experience representing secured lenders and creditors, landlords, lessors, and vendors in commercial creditors’ rights matters. Our experience includes:
Our team can support you with insurance insolvency proceedings, including ancillary bankruptcy. We negotiate and draft rehabilitation and liquidation petitions, plans and orders, management services contracts, asset sales, and merger transactions. In recent years we have identified and recovered significant sums for clients and helped to resolve or adjudicate numerous claims against insolvent estates.
Our team has significant experience in international insolvency proceedings and represents secured creditors on cross-border transactions and offshore asset recovery.
As national and regional counsel, we manage insolvency and creditors’ rights matters in jurisdictions across the country and internationally. Our case management system is tailored to your information and reporting needs and allows secure, 24/7 access to case information. We have developed and managed a network of local counsel to ensure you receive the best, most cost-effective legal representation.
We can advise you on all aspects of workouts and out-of-court restructurings, including refinancing, out-of-court restructuring agreements, forbearance agreements, corporate restructurings, and purchasing of assets from troubled businesses.
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Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Michael Brandess has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in its Financial Services & Capital Markets industry team and Insolvency & Commercial Bankruptcy and Business Succession Planning practice groups.
“Growing our Wisconsin-based banking and finance team has been a priority for our firm over the past few years,” said Eric Lenzen, leader of the firm’s Financial Services & Capital Markets group.
The firm has 16 attorneys named to the Super Lawyers list and 10 attorneys named to the Rising Stars list.
Vladimirova, based in the firm's Madison office, is one of 40 up-and-coming bankruptcy practitioners with 5 to 10 years of experience participating in the program.
Covering more than 70 practice areas, Super Lawyers is a directory of lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Recipients are selected by a special selection subcommittee consisting of past recipients and attorneys representing different geographical areas throughout the state in a variety of practice sizes.
The 2019 edition of the IFLR 1000 represents the second year IFLR has ranked top financial and corporate law firms and lawyers on a state-by-state basis.
The arrival of Timothy Million and Randall Rios continues Husch Blackwell’s momentum in the Texas marketplace.
Michael Bridges was recognized for his family law and contracts work with clients of Legal Services of Southern Missouri.
Michael Fielding is a recipient of the Missouri Lawyers Weekly inaugural Top Legal Innovation Awards.
Husch Blackwell has 58 attorneys in the 2018 edition of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
Husch Blackwell has 32 attorneys named to the 2018 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.
Husch Blackwell has nine attorneys in the 2018 edition of Mid-South Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
For the first time, Missouri Lawyers Media present its Top Legal Innovation Awards honoring work to drive new practice areas, services and business strategies. Husch Blackwell's Michael Fielding is an honoree.
Noted litigator Stephanie Kaiser has joined Husch Blackwell as a partner in its Austin office.
The Tenth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower-court judgment on behalf of Husch Blackwell client Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc.