My practice is limited to representing businesses, high net-worth individuals, bankruptcy trustees, creditors’ committees, assignees, union health, welfare and pension funds, landlords and attorneys in out-of-court restructuring of debt, bankruptcy and assignments for the benefit of creditors in Chicago and throughout the United States. On the litigation side of these issues, we have substantial experience defending and prosecuting preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, corporate “veil-piercing” actions, officer and director fraud and breach of fiduciary duty litigation and the rejection of union collective bargaining agreements under the provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code. I have spoken on these issues at various bar association seminars and published articles in the Illinois Bar Journal and the Chicago Bar Association Magazine.
Bruce's recent experience includes:
- representing unofficial committee of debenture holders in major real estate Chapter 11 case in Puerto Rico
- representing official unsecured creditors committee in major food distributor Chapter 11 Case
- representing the debtor in the sale of its American business and Mexican operating subsidiary through an assignment for the benefit of creditors
- representing the largest unsecured creditor in a major law firm liquidation
- prosecuting "veil piercing" actions on behalf of bankruptcy trustees
- representing multiple defendants in state court preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation brought under the Ohio insurance liquidation statutes
- advising and documenting a collection agent's assignment of contracts from the Assignee of a major technology consulting company
- multiple out-of-court workouts of the financial affairs of highly leveraged businesses
- advising secured creditors in structuring and conducting UCC sales of collateral
- representing a debtor in a Chapter 11 case during which its manufacturing operations were moved to the Maquiladora District in Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- representing the purchaser in the purchase of assets of a Chapter 11 debtor in Indianapolis, Indiana
- representing a group of equity partners in an international law firm liquidation
- representing an officer and director of a large financial institution in lawsuit alleging breach of various fiduciary duties
- representing various union health, welfare and pension funds in defense of a Chapter 11 debtor's attempt to reject its labor contracts under the Bankruptcy Code
