Representation of Creditors and Committees

Our lawyers represent both individual creditors and committees of creditors in formal bankruptcy proceedings as well as non-bankruptcy workouts and reorganizations. Members of the FRI Department have represented the following creditor and committee clients:

• The heir of artist Stuart Davis in In re Salander O'Reilly Galleries LLC.

• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC in In re Movie Gallery LLC and In re Hollywood Video, Inc.

• A creditor in In re Calpine, Inc.

• A creditor in In re St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York.

• The sole shareholder of a $100 million group of marine dredging and construction companies in three related corporate bankruptcy cases.

• The First National Bank of Chicago, as agent, in In re Worlds of Wonder, Inc.

• Mellon Bank, as agent, in In re Houston Transmodal Owning Company.

• Security Pacific National Bank, as agent, and Chemical Bank and National Westminster Bank, U.S.A., as creditors and defendants, in a large preference action in In re Osborne Computer Corporation.

• Banque Paribas in the chapter 11 case of Softworld Services Corporation, a CD-ROM duplicator.

• A significant creditor in Neostar Group chapter 11 case.

• The official creditors' committee of Agway, Inc., a 69,000-member supply agricultural cooperative.

• The official bondholders' committee of Excite@Home, a supplier of cable-based broadband internet access and service.

• The official creditors' committee in chapter 11 case of Guy F. Atkinson Company, a multi-hundred million-dollar heavy civil construction company.

• A shareholder and the largest secured creditor in In re Bell Brands Snack Foods, Inc.

• A major unsecured creditor, including active service on the creditors' committee, in In re Smith-Corona, Inc.

• The largest unsecured creditor, including serving as chair of the creditors' committee, in In re Rexon-Tecmar Inc.

• A trade creditor in In re The Wherehouse, Inc.

• Foreign bank participants in a $100 million real estate loan related to the cross-border bankruptcy of Bramalea Ltd., a major Canadian real estate company.

• General Electric Company as a major secured creditor in In re Telenova Distribution Company, Inc.

• The Bank of California as a major secured creditor of a $60 million high tech company in In re Scientific Micro Systems, Inc.

• Leprino Foods Company as a creditor in In re Knudsen, Inc.

• The official creditors' committee in In re Pizza Time Theatres, Inc.

• Chemical Bank in collecting motion picture loans involving the films "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" in In re Kinetographics.

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. in five separate chapter 11 cases arising from the bankruptcy of Vesteq Corporation, a large real estate syndicator.

• Consolidated Capital Special Trust and Consolidated Capital Income Trust (at the time, two of the largest REITs in the U.S.) in all phases of loan renegotiation, loan workout, default, collection, foreclosure, and bankruptcy.