Experience
Representation of Chapter 7 Trustee in case involving over $600 million in total debt and substantial litigation against various parties related to the Debtor.
Served as special counsel to the Chapter 7 trustee in Anchorage, Alaska, negotiating payment of a $1,500,000 settlement from the debtor’s former principal to the bankruptcy estate.
(Liquidation Trust representation) Representation of court-appointed administrator of the liquidation trust established in the Chapter 9 bankruptcy of Kennewick Public Hospital District, Case No. 17-02025-9 (E.D. Wash).
Representation of Chapter 11 trustee in substantively consolidating nine related entities comprising a resort and selling the consolidated business as an operating entity through a plan of liquidation resulting in 100% payment to all non-subordinated creditors.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of a large and complex consumer foreclosure law firm. Represent the trustee in liquidating the debtor’s assets, determining the ownership for millions of dollars of sales proceeds, and recouping preference and voidable transfers.
Representation of Chapter 11 trustee in the administration of the debtor’s bankruptcy case, including obtaining confirmation of a plan providing for the sale of the debtor’s 146-unit apartment project in Vancouver, Washington, which sale was ultimately consummated.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of a large and complex non-judicial foreclosure business. Represent the trustee in liquidating the debtor’s assets and determining the ownership for millions of dollars of sales proceeds.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in negotiation of settlement of litigation pending among the debtor and multiple parties that provided for a potential distribution of funds to the estate.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee, including successful fraudulent transfer action against Las Vegas Hilton. See In re Video Depot Ltd., 127 F.3rd 1195.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the administration of estate assets.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in a complex individual case involving the transfer of substantial business interests and other assets into self-settled trusts.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee, including successful preference action resulting in the published opinion In re Kemp Pacific Fisheries, Inc., 16 F.3d 313 (9th Cir. 1994).
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of the debtor’s real property.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the administration of estate assets.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in appeal of bankruptcy court’s order denying the trustee’s objection to the debtor’s claimed homestead exemption.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of the debtor’s personal property.
Representation of Chapter 7 trustee in the liquidation of the debtor’s real property.