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Our experienced insolvency practice group is a team of attorneys with a proven track record of attaining successful results for our clients.
We represent and counsel 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 reorganization, liquidation and litigation proceedings. We also represent purchasers of, and investors in, financially distressed businesses and assets.
We attribute our success in insolvency matters to the teamwork of our group and our interdisciplinary approach to managing cases. We assist our clients in the largest and most complex of matters, while at the same time retaining the staffing flexibility to handle smaller matters efficiently and cost-effectively. Our flexibility and firmwide resources allow us to service our clients in complex niche industries that unexpectedly experience financial distress. We have significant recent experience in matters involving tax credit enhanced real estate projects, municipal bankruptcies, agriculture, gaming, dealer finance, and transportation. Our ability to quickly develop a depth of knowledge about unique insolvency events demonstrate our group’s dedication to serve clients facing difficult and unique situations.
We represented the senior debt syndicate in the bankruptcy of Affiliated Foods Southwest, Inc. and its affiliates in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Arkansas. The debtor is one of the largest wholesale food cooperatives in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma.
We served as lead bankruptcy counsel to President Casinos, Inc. and its subsidiaries in connection with their Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings, including drafting, negotiating and gaining confirmation of three separate plans of reorganization in which all creditors have been paid in full and equity security holders stand to receive a substantial distribution.
We recently advised a purchaser in its successful bid to acquire numerous retail carpet and flooring stores located throughout the United States as part of a plan of reorganization confirmed in the seller's bankruptcy case in Houston, Texas.
We recently represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of U.S. Fidelis, Inc., once regarded as the nation's No. 1 seller of extended auto service contracts.
We represented a dairy cattle lessor in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals where the appellate court reversed the lower courts and held that our client had a true lease and not a security agreement.
We represented the federal court receiver in selling a multi-state chemical analysis and testing company, which was awarded the Turnaround Management Association’s Transaction of the Year.
We obtained a dismissal for a Missouri municipality in litigation surrounding a failed industrial development.
We represented a lender in obtaining confirmation of a creditors’ plan in three jointly administered cases involving 10 different lenders and over 40 different secured loans.
Publications
Highlights from the SBA’s further guidance on PPP loan forgiveness
As COVID-19 prompts more retail tenant bankruptcies, how should landlords and lenders respond?
What receivers need to know about the Federal Priority Act
Bankruptcy court rejects risk-shifting liquidated damages clause in equipment leases
Data in the cloud: What if the cloud provider goes bankrupt?
Amendments to Chapter 12 make it easier for a family farmer to reorganize
Key takeaways for creditors after the Supreme Court's divided ruling on spousal guarantors
Major update to bankruptcy forms effective December 1, 2015
Understanding triple net leases
Parsing the legal and financial impact from Detroit’s bankruptcy
UCC update: Revisions to Missouri’s UCC Articles 4A and 9
The Wheatley review of LIBOR: final report
Blog Posts
Payday before mayday: The increasing use of pre-bankruptcy executive retention bonuses
Why the return of NOL carry backs may be good news for some distressed corporations
Financial distress of the COVID-19 pandemic on not-for-profits
CARES Act expands eligibility under Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019
Can government actions restrict creditors’ remedies during the COVID-19 emergency?
Appeals Court rules bankruptcy trustee can recover tuition payments from college
Health care provider agreements may be acquired 'free and clear' in bankruptcies
Four key takeaways from the August 2019 bankruptcy code amendments
TCLE
The Big Bang: When the Worlds of Energy Law and Bankruptcy Law Collide
Seven Things You Should Know About the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act
Dealing with Financially Troubled Customers Outside and Inside of Bankruptcy
News
Rick Reibman named managing partner of Thompson Coburn’s Chicago office
National law firm Thompson Coburn lands four partners in new Dallas office
Congratulations to the new Thompson Coburn partners for 2020
Congratulations to our 14 ‘Lawyers of the Year’ for 2020
Congratulations to our 14 ‘Lawyers of the Year’ for 2019
Nino Przulj selected as one of Business Journal’s 30 Under 30
Congratulations to our 14 'Lawyers of the Year' for 2018
Thompson Coburn earns 11 national top-tier rankings in U.S. News ‘Best Law Firms’ survey
Congratulations to our 8 ‘Lawyers of the Year’
Claire Schenk writes about Federal Priority Act for Federal Bar magazine
Thompson Coburn earns eight national top-tier rankings in U.S. News ‘Best Law Firms’ survey
Thompson Coburn represents issuer in 2014 Health Care Deal of the Year
Rightsizing the Right Way: Restructuring and Realignment in Higher Education
Congratulations to our 15 St. Louis ‘Lawyers of the Year’
David Warfield talks US Fidelis case on CNBC’s ‘American Greed’
Sixth Circuit rules cows can be leased
Federal judge rules sovereign immunity bars claims related to industrial development bonds
Thompson Coburn earns six national top-tier rankings in U.S. News ‘Best Law Firms’ survey
Detroit’s bankruptcy: What’s it got to do with St. Louis?
Thompson Coburn drafts UCC legislation in Missouri
David Warfield writes article on Detroit bankruptcy for St. Louis Business Journal
Francis X. Buckley, Jr. elected to board of directors of the American College of Bankruptcy
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