2021 Sponsors
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $1500 for 2021:
Adelman & Gettleman is a boutique law firm specializing in commercial insolvency, out of court restructurings, bankruptcy, going-concern and asset sales, and related commercial litigation.
With more than 700 attorneys and other legal professionals, Barnes & Thornburg is one of the largest law firms in the country. The firm serves clients worldwide from offices in Atlanta, California, Chicago, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, New York, Ohio, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, Texas and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit us online at www.btlaw.com or on Twitter @BTLawNews.
Bernstein-Burkley is a highly regarded and respected law firm with a national reach in Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights, Business and Corporate Transactions, Litigation, Real Estate, and Oil and Gas. The firm has cultivated a reputation for excellence over the course of 50 years in the business community. Bernstein-Burkley’s core purpose is to create partnerships that provide clients with a peace of mind through expert advice and zealous representation. The firm has locations in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Wheeling. For more information, visit bernsteinlaw.com.
Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for eight decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our Insolvency & Financial Law Group has successfully represented clients in complex proceedings throughout the country in all economic climates. With one of the largest insolvency practices on the West Coast, many of the nation’s sophisticated stakeholders trust us to represent them in financial reorganization cases, both in and out of court. We leverage the depth of our knowledge and breadth of experience across industries as diverse as agriculture, apparel, communications, entertainment, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, technology, transportation, and equipment leasing to deliver creative, cost-effective, timely and practical solutions in the face of the uncertainty of financial reorganization and liquidation proceedings. To learn more please visit www.Buchalter.com
Campbell & Levine, LLC is a leading commercial banruptcy, transactional and public finance firm with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wilminton, Delaware.The firm has concentrated its practice in the area of insolvency law and debtors' and creditors' rights, evolving from representing individual debtors and trustees in consumer and small business bankruptcy cases to representing debtors and creditors in major reoganizations and out-of-court workouts.
Casner & Edwards, LLP represents businesses, individuals and institutions across New England and around the world, providing the core legal services they need to succeed. Clients work directly with a team of expert attorneys, and can expect full attention, seasoned advice, top quality work, and good value.
The firm’s Bankruptcy & Restructuring Group has developed a national reputation for excellence in bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Known for their strategic approach to resolving complex financial problems, the Group’s attorneys represent a broad spectrum of clients, including debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees, trustees, assignees, landlords, and plan administrators in all types of business and consumer bankruptcy proceedings. Backed by Casner & Edwards' full range of business counseling and litigation expertise, the firm’s bankruptcy lawyers offer an intelligent and cost-effective legal course for each situation.
A full service law firm, Crowe & Dunlevy has been a regional leader in innovative and effective legal solutions for businesses and individuals for more than 100 years. Offering comprehensive transactional and litigation services from early mediation to alternative dispute resolution via nearly 30 practice groups, we work with diverse clientele to meet even the most challenging legal objectives. Our Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights Practice Group represents both debtors and creditors in workouts, receiverships, prepackaged bankruptcies and traditional bankruptcy proceedings. For more information, visit crowedunlevy.com
Deloitte CRG is a leader in helping organizations transform periods of financial difficulty or crisis into opportunities for resilience. Having led both large multinational organizations and mid-market companies through unprecedented challenges, we apply our unrivalled experience and superior foresight to achieve successful outcomes for our clients, their creditors and equity holders. Whether the goal is to enhance the performance of a healthy company or guide stakeholders through complex bankruptcy reorganization, our team works closely with the client to quickly understand their business and most urgent issues
Dentons’ global Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group represents one of the largest, most highly regarded teams of dedicated professionals in the world. With more than 240 lawyers around the world practicing in their respective jurisdictions, our Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy lawyers provide a truly global service to our clients by offering insolvency and restructuring capabilities on all matters whether they involve local, domestic, cross-border or international aspects.
Dilworth Paxson LLP is a multi-disciplinary law firm of more than 100 attorneys headquartered in Philadelphia, with additional offices in Harrisburg and Exton, Pennsylvania; Cherry Hill and Princeton, New Jersey; New York, New York; and Wilmington, Delaware. The Philadelphia location is our largest office. The Firm conducts a broad and diverse regional and national law practice representing a wide variety of clients from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, closely-held businesses, governmental entities, institutions, and individuals.
Engelman Berger is comprised of experienced lawyers who are well recognized for their expertise and the ability to bring about positive results for clients. We are committed to excellent legal representation designed to get commercial disputes resolved in a way that meets our clients’ goals. Our clients range from publicly traded companies to family-owned businesses in a wide array of industries. We provide services focused in the commercial and business law areas. Typical clients include commercial lenders, real estate developers, franchise owners, municipalities and investors. Our expertise in bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law has been established over a 20-year track record that we are proud of. Our experience and “bench strength” in the bankruptcy and debtor/creditor area is extraordinary for our local small firm. Our lawyers are active in the Arizona bankruptcy bar, national bankruptcy organizations and related professional and civic activities. We have strong and longstanding client relationships built on the trust that is rooted in our spirited advocacy, experience, and creativity. Learn more at eblaw.com.
Fowler Bell PLLC, located in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, is dedicated to representing our clients in an effective and efficient manner, adding a personal touch to each of their specific needs. Fowler Bell practices in Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Groups and Insurance Litigation representing local and national clients in a variety of industries including insurance, heavy equipment, equine, coal, oil and gas production, and e-commerce. Our clients turn to us knowing they will receive the upmost professional and personalized legal experience. To learn more, please visit our website at www.fowlerlaw.com.
Fredrikson & Byron is a 280-attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Bismarck, Des Moines, Fargo, St. Paul, Saltillo, Mexico, and Shanghai, China. We’ve built a reputation as the firm “where law and business meet” by bringing business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking to our work, and by operating as business advisors and strategic partners as well as legal counselors. Fredrikson & Byron’s bankruptcy, restructuring and workout team is known for our services to debtor or creditor clients. We handle bankruptcy reorganization cases, out-of-court restructuring, workouts of commercial loans, liquidations, debtor-creditor litigation in and out of bankruptcy court, commercial and banking litigation, reclamations, and receiverships and assignments for benefit of creditors. We have expertise representing debtors and creditors in diverse industries, including: manufacturing, healthcare, energy, mining, real estate and construction, retail/ entertainment, food/agriculture, services, professionals, receiverships, finance, and charitable and religious organizations. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com
FurrCohen is a boutique bankruptcy firm in South Florida. It handles complex personal Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcies-and corporate Chapter 11 cases. It represents debtors, creditors and trustees. It also does Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors in State Court. Its lawyers have many years of experience in Bankruptcy, fraud and insolvency issues.
GableGotwals ® is a full-service law firm with approximately 100 attorneys representing a diversified client base across the nation. Though Oklahoma-based, our connections and reach are global. Fortune 500 corporations, privately owned companies, entrepreneurs, foundations and individuals entrust us every day with the stewardship and strategic management of their legal challenges.
The Financial Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights (FRCR) Department at Gibbons includes a highly regarded, growing national practice from a base in the District of New Jersey, while also leveraging the firm’s significant foothold in the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly in the Southern District of New York and the District of Delaware – the two preeminent corporate bankruptcy venues in the country. Our broad and exceptional experience includes debtor, creditor, and fiduciary representations in federal bankruptcy cases; pre-bankruptcy “workout”/insolvency counseling; and related state court litigation involving receiverships, attachments, replevins, and commercial foreclosure actions. We have the versatility of having represented all major constituencies in chapter 11 cases, and we also have the distinction of having represented one of the principal parties in some of the cutting-edge decisions in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. These include seminal cases on claims’ estimation procedures under the Bankruptcy Code; the standard for adequate protection to secured creditors; chapter 11 plan classification rules; and the “disinterestedness” requirement for counsel to a fiduciary in a chapter 11 case.
Goldberg Kohn's Bankruptcy Group is a leader in the middle market for senior and junior creditor facilities, both asset based and cash flow. Our expertise includes representing the agent, majority lenders and minority lenders regarding potential disputes among lenders. We have been at the forefront of some of the most important developments relating to lenders using non-cash instruments to acquire collateral through bankruptcy sales, and litigating the rights of majority lenders under those circumstances, as well as protecting the rights of minority lenders if the majority fails to act in good faith. Goldberg Kohn was founded in 1976. From our base in Chicago our 85+ attorneys represent clients from around the world in a wide range of industries.
Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers and other professionals in 28 offices throughout the world. Our lawyers provide representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with access to attorneys throughout the firm, regardless of location. www.hklaw.com
Lane Powell's Creditors’ Rights Team is a recognized leader in providing “cradle to grave” financial, restructuring and litigation services to clients in the Northwest and nationally. We have extensive experience representing financial institutions, creditors’ committees, receivers, trustees, purchasers and borrowers in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters. Our team has in-depth industry knowledge in forestry, agriculture, manufacturing, real estate, energy, utilities, media and retail, and advises clients in these and other industries on issues related to drafting and enforcement, restructuring and bankruptcy, and receiverships or assignments for benefit of creditors. Chambers USA has recognized us as a “top player” for creditor representation in Washington state.
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie is a premier U.S.-based law firm, serving clients from around the world in complex litigation, bankruptcy, intellectual property, business transactions, labor and employment, regulatory counseling, and government relations. More than 240 lawyers strong, Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie is large enough to handle virtually any matter, no matter how sophisticated, but small enough to preserve our culture of legal excellence and exceptional client service.
MalekRemian LLC is a team of operations, interim management, corporate transaction, valuation and litigation support professionals providing services throughout the United States. We combine decades of experience with a hands-on client service model, personal commitment and on-call attention, devoted to helping you solve your business challenges and move forward. MalekRemian’s senior level expertise drives value-added results across a range of industries, including energy and power, financial services and real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and transportation.
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Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C. is a nationally-recognized law firm with more than 290 attorneys serving national and international companies, private equity, venture capital and other investment firms, emerging growth companies, governmental entities, banks and other financial institutions, and non-profits. Headquartered in Alabama, the firm has ten strategic locations, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Washington, D.C., Dallas and Nashville. With an expansive geographic reach based in a smaller market, we are able to manage the needs of clients effectively while delivering unique value. We pursue a thorough understanding of each client’s business and the climate in which it operates, then apply a broad spectrum of legal expertise and interdisciplinary service to deliver targeted, efficient and effective representation. For more information, please visit www.maynardcooper.com.
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McGuireWoods’ Restructuring and Insolvency Department stands ready to assist clients with any and all insolvency situations. Our national team includes lawyers with transactional and litigation strength. We represent debtors and debtors in possession, secured creditors and unsecured creditors' committees, agents, bank groups, senior and mezzanine lenders, trustees and receivers in all types of debt restructuring, litigation and bankruptcy reorganization proceedings, including out-of-court workouts.
Founded in 1930, McDonald Hopkins is a business advisory and advocacy law firm with locations in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and West Palm Beach. With more than 50 service and industry teams, the firm has the expertise and knowledge to meet the growing number of legal and business challenges our clients face. For more information about McDonald Hopkins, visit https://mcdonaldhopkins.com/
Morris Nichols’ Business Reorganization & Restructuring Group is recognized as one of the premier restructuring and reorganizing practices in the United States. Since 1990, Delaware has been the venue for nearly half of the nation’s largest bankruptcy cases and Morris Nichols has been at the center of many of these sophisticated proceedings. We leverage that experience along with the capabilities of our corporate litigation, intellectual property, real estate, and corporate and commercial counseling practices to assist troubled businesses and other major parties in large, complex cases and adversary proceedings.
For more than 40 years, Murphy & King, Professional Corporation has provided clients with the judgment, advice, and personal attention of senior lawyers, “unraveling complexity” for its clients through prompt, practical and cost-effective solutions to the legal needs of individuals and businesses. From startup and incorporation, to maintaining day to day operations, to resolving internal and external disputes, Murphy & King attorneys are skilled at effectively and efficiently unraveling the inherent complexities of each client’s business to ensure that it can attain its maximum potential. The firm’s principal areas of practice are Business Litigation, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring, Corporate and Real Estate Transactions, and White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations.
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Neal & Harwell, PLC was built upon the rich foundation of its history to become one of the premier trial firms in the United States. Founded in 1971 by Jim Neal and Aubrey Harwell, the firm is committed to excellence in providing the highest quality legal advice and representation for its clients. The firm also provides a wide range of full-service legal representation, and its attorneys use their skills as advocates in courtrooms throughout the country. In spite of the emphasis being on litigation, the firm has a substantial and growing business transaction and bankruptcy practice. The firm has represented a of a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as high-profile individuals in sports, entertainment and government.
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Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP is a firm of more than 70 lawyers passionately dedicated to helping our clients “go beyond”—break through barriers, surmount obstacles and exceed their own expectations. Companies of all sizes look to us for creative, interdisciplinary solutions to their most important problems. We provide clients with the unique combination of experienced and skillful representation expected from the largest firms along with lean staffing, partner attention, and favorable fee arrangements more often found at smaller boutique firms. For more information, visit www.phrd.com.
Phillips Lytle’s bankruptcy and creditors’ rights attorneys artfully blend legal and financial acumen to the benefit of creditors and debtors alike. Our attorneys have been involved in cases of national and international significance, and have expertise in all aspects of federal bankruptcy law as well as state and international laws governing secured transactions, creditors’ rights, fraudulent and other avoidable conveyances, cross-border refinancings and restructurings, corporate reorganizations and real estate. We also represent all types of secured and unsecured creditors as well as bankruptcy and indenture trustees, receivers, debtors, landlords, lessees, acquirers, vendors and suppliers, and official creditor and equity committees. Visit us at www.phillipslytle.com
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Porter Hedges represent debtors, creditors, trustees, creditors' committees, institutional lenders, and investors in out-of-court debt restructurings, acquisitions and financings, and Chapters 7, 9, and 11 bankruptcies throughout the U.S. We have particular experience restructuring energy and healthcare companies. In 2019, Chambers USA named Porter Hedges “Bankruptcy Firm of the Year” in Texas. For more information, please visit us at www.porterhedges.com.
For more than four decades, Rubin & Levin has been serving clients and acting as bankruptcy trustees and receivers throughout Indiana and the surrounding states in matters including bankruptcy, creditors' rights, litigation, and business matters. The attorneys at Rubin & Levin are experienced in providing strategic counsel and aggressive representation in all aspects of commercial law
Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC is a full-service law firm headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with an additional office located in Coralville, Iowa. The firm’s deep history dates back to 1916, having more than a century of experience representing national (and international) clients in matters from complex litigation to business transactions of all sizes. As one of the largest law firms in Iowa, our attorneys work together to find the most efficient solutions for the best outcomes for our clients.
At Spencer Fane, your business leaders work with our business leaders. We provide an unconventional approach to legal services geared toward protecting and advancing business and personal interests. Our clients are certain that their interests are our priority, because they work with leaders – leaders who work decisively, execute with purpose and understand the importance of flawless timing. Be certain.
Among the 200 largest law firms in the nation, Stevens & Lee is a full service law firm comprised of more than 160 lawyers representing clients nationwide, with emphasis on the Mid-Atlantic region. Founded in 1928, Stevens & Lee maintains 16 law firm offices. Our attorneys represent clients operating in numerous industries and we have established a reputation as one of the preeminent providers of sophisticated legal services in the region. A more comprehensive description of our firm, its history and detailed overviews of each of our practice areas can be found at www.stevenslee.com.
Thompson & Knight is a full-service law firm providing a wide range of traditional legal services in many industries. Our client-focused, team-oriented, high-performance culture prizes innovation, intuition, and communication. We are proud of the ability of our attorneys to listen and be responsive to the needs and goals of our valued clients
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Thompson Coburn’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy practice represents and counsels clients throughout the United States in virtually all types of corporate recovery, bankruptcy and insolvency matters. We counsel and advise lenders of all types, secured and unsecured creditors, borrowers, debtors, creditors’ committees, equity holders, boards, officers and directors, trustees, examiners, receivers, landlords, lessors and preference defendants in out-of-court restructurings and workouts as well as in federal and state court reorganizations, liquidation and litigation proceedings. We also represent purchasers of, and investors in, financially distressed businesses and assets.
Thompson Hine’s dedicated business restructuring, creditors' rights, and bankruptcy lawyers represent major secured and unsecured lenders, creditors’ committees, debtors, credit enhancement providers and various other interested parties in finance and restructuring transactions, workouts and bankruptcy matters. Our clients turn to us for representation in bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters, including fraudulent transfer, preference, breach of fiduciary duty, cross-border insolvency and corporate governance issues. Additionally, clients benefit from our team’s substantial knowledge of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights law and skill in developing creative business strategies.
