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Business Restructuring, Workouts and Bankruptcy

Creditors’ Rights

Our lawyers vigorously defend the rights and interests of both secured and unsecured creditors in out-of-court workouts as well as bankruptcy proceedings in order to obtain all available remedies. Our clients include individual and corporate creditors, as well as unsecured creditors’ committees appointed by the Bankruptcy Court and clients seated on those committees.

Our work on behalf of creditors includes:

  • Relief from automatic stay
  • Dismissal and conversion of bankruptcy cases
  • Negotiation and litigation concerning plans of reorganization
  • Negotiation with senior secured lenders
  • Enforcement of liens, mortgages and security interests
  • Enforcement of rights under executory contracts and leases
  • Litigation of cash collateral motions
  • Counseling on related legal issues, including tax planning

Our representative experience in protecting the rights of creditors includes:

  • Served as counsel to official unsecured creditors’ committees in oil and gas, trucking, healthcare and other bankruptcies
  • Served as counsel for ad hoc committees of secured lenders in trucking and other bankruptcies
  • Served as creditors’ committee counsel in contesting claims of large secured creditors
  • Represented creditors seeking to transfer bankruptcy cases to other districts
  • Served as liquidating agent for rural hospital chain
  • Served as trustee in multiple business cases, including those involving gaming, retail and manufacturing industries.

Creditors’ Rights Team

Kevin Blaney

Of Counsel

(405) 552-2213

Colby J. Byrd

Shareholder, Industry Group Leader

(405) 270-6059

Matthew T. Crook

Of Counsel

(918) 574-3058

Jared D. Giddens

Of Counsel

(405) 552-2292

Miranda L. Harrison

Associate

(405) 552-2260

Justin T. Hiersche

Shareholder

(405) 235-9621

G. Rudy Hiersche, Jr.

Of Counsel

(405) 552-2262

Laura J. Long

Shareholder

(405) 552-2372

Keith McIlhaney

Attorney

(405) 552-2246

Matthew A. Peace

Associate

(405) 228-2296

Kiran A. Phansalkar

Of Counsel

(405) 552-2295

Ross Plourde

Shareholder, Practice Group Leader

(405) 552-2277

Louis J. Price

Shareholder, General Counsel

(405) 552-2253

Preston M. Sullivan

Of Counsel

(405) 228-2226

Russell B. Taylor

Associate

(405) 552-2256