Resolving the Issues Associated with Insolvency and Troubled Loans

As a member of the firm’s Banking, Receivership, and Creditors’ Rights and Litigation Practice Groups, John regularly assists both secured and unsecured creditors, including banking institutions, servicers, commercial landlords and other entities, in the enforcement, collection and workout of contracts, loans, leases, and other obligations.

John has extensive courtroom experience in utilizing state and federal collection remedies, such as foreclosure, replevin, garnishment, and the creation of various types of receiverships and trust funds to protect or liquidate assets serving as collateral, and has also served as a Chapter 128 court-appointed receiver to administer assets of insolvent companies.

John also represents the rights of creditors in both state Chapter 128 insolvency proceedings and federal bankruptcy proceedings, and regularly assists clients in the enforcement of contractual or statutory rights and remedies in state and federal courts.

John Assists Clients With

• Enforcing the rights of all types of creditors, including financial institutions, loan servicers, commercial landlords, and other secured or unsecured creditors, both in state and federal courts;
• Restructuring financial transactions and workouts or forbearance terms of troubled loans;
• Drafting and reviewing loan documentation and security agreements;
• Properly perfecting mortgages, security interests, and other types of liens;
• Enforcing security instruments to liquidate all types of pledged collateral;
• Post-judgment collection matters;
• Commercial eviction matters;
• Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) trust fund collection;
• Enforcement of Theft by Contactor Claims;
• Contract Drafting and Litigation;
• Real Estate / Conveyances and Title Issues.