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  • Are you a creditor of a company that filed bankruptcy and have questions?
  • Are you in a lawsuit with a party that just filed bankruptcy and need advice about what you can and cannot do?
  • Do you want to obtain relief from the “automatic stay” of bankruptcy?
  • Do you want to assert a claim against a party in bankruptcy?
  • Did you file a proof of claim and need help defending it?
  • Are you being sued by a chapter 11 or chapter 7 trustee?
  • Does your company have a large credit exposure to a customer that may file bankruptcy?
  • Did you just receive notice that your customer commenced an “assignment for the benefit of creditors?”
  • Did you just learn that your customer’s bank or other blanket-lien lender is foreclosing on its assets and that there will be no ability to pay your company?
  • Are you a licensor of licensee of a counterparty that just filed bankruptcy?
  • Do you want to “bankruptcy-proof” a contract against the risk that your counterparty might someday become insolvent?
  • Are you a landlord whose tenant just filed bankruptcy?
  • Do you want to object to the discharge of a debtor-in-bankruptcy?
  • Do you need aggressive representation in the context of a chapter 11 plan?

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  • In re Kmart Corporation (Bankr. N.D. Ill.).  In the largest retail bankruptcy in the nation’s history, a SFGH attorney represented three national financial institutions as indenture trustee and mortgagee in connection with municipal and corporate bonds totaling over $300 million in face value secured by mortgages on approximately one hundred (100) properties spread across 21 states that were occupied by Kmart Corporation or related entities.   

  • In re Rite Way Mechanical Installations, Inc. (Bankr. D. Minn.). In this matter, SFGH represented a distressed investor which acquired the senior secured debt from a commercial bank during a hotly-contested chapter 11 proceeding.  SFGH then managed virtually every aspect of the debtor's going concern liquidation, from conducting the sell-side process with the debtor's investment banker, to negotiating a stalking-horse transaction, and conducting the auction and then ultimately closing the transaction with the winning bidder. 

  • In re United Air Lines, Inc. (Bankr. N.D. Ill.).  A SFGH attorney represented a national financial institution as trustee and collateral agent for an aircraft leasing trust secured by numerous commercial aircraft impacted by the UAL bankruptcy.   

  • In re Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.).  In the bankruptcy of the world’s largest commercial airline company by fleet size, a SFGH attorney represented a national financial institution as trustee and collateral agent for an aircraft leasing trust secured by numerous commercial aircraft impacted by the Delta bankruptcy. 

  • In re Northwest Airlines Corporation (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.).  In the bankruptcy of the world’s sixth largest commercial airline company prior to its merger with Delta Air Lines, one of our attorneys represented a national financial institution as trustee and collateral agent for an aircraft leasing trust secured by numerous commercial aircraft impacted by the Northwest Airlines Corporation bankruptcy. 

  • In re FLYi, Inc. (Independence Air) (Bankr. D. Del.).  In the bankruptcy of this Washington, DC-based regional air carrier, a SFGH attorney represented a national financial institution as trustee and collateral agent for an aircraft leasing trust secured by numerous commercial aircraft impacted by the Flyi bankruptcy.