Bankruptcy/Restructuring

About

Provided by Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett

Gordon Arata routinely assists clients as they face the myriad of insolvency, restructuring, and creditors' rights issues that arise in business. The firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights practice group has a breadth of experience it takes - attorneys with decades of experience and several formal judicial law clerks. In addition to lawyers admitted to practice before state and federal courts in Louisiana, Texas, and various other states, the firm's ranks include former business owners and consultants, CEOs and entrepreneurs with real world understanding of the problems clients face.

The firm's experience includes:

• Representing debtors and creditors in connection with problem credit, workouts, foreclosures, Chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidation proceedings
• Representing debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders
• Acting as court appointed bankruptcy trustees
• Representing bankruptcy trustees
• Representing Unsecured Creditors’ Committees
• Representing parties to leases, executory contracts and license agreements in bankruptcy proceedings
• Prosecuting and defending Louisiana Oil Well Lien Act (LOWLA) claims
• Evaluating lien priorities
• Prosecuting and defending preference, fraudulent conveyance and other avoidance actions
• Section 363 sales
• Preparing of claims in bankruptcy
• Representing creditors in discharge complaints against debtors
• Mediation
• Serving as local counsel before Louisiana bankruptcy courts and as oil and gas counsel in bankruptcy cases