PRACTICE AREAS



Financial Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Creditors Rights
Barton has a well-established corporate financial restructuring, bankruptcy and creditor's rights practice. We help a diverse array of clients meet the challenges arising from distressed loans and financings, corporate insolvencies, restructurings and reorganizations. We have represented clients in a myriad of industries in both out-of-court workouts and in-court insolvency proceedings throughout the country including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Barton has a wealth of experience to work on your behalf in the wide range of issues that routinely arise in financially distressed corporate and borrower situations including:
  • Loan defaults
  • Loan workouts
  • Pre-bankruptcy Chapter 11 Plans
  • Crisis management
  • Out-of-court and contested restructurings
  • Commercial real-estate foreclosures
  • Distressed asset sales and acquisitions
  • Acquisition and trading of claims
  • Rights of senior and mezzanine lenders
  • The complete Chapter 11 process and procedures
  • Debtor-in-possession financing
The restructuring and bankruptcy arenas can also be litigious. You can rely on the experience of Barton in seeking to actively resolve, or, where necessary, litigate the wide range of potential disputes faced leading up to and after the filing of a corporate bankruptcy including:
  • Contested financings
  • Subprime lending-related litigation
  • Cash collateral disputes
  • Fraudulent transfer and conveyance actions
  • Lender liability and equitable subordination claims
  • Preference actions
  • Deepening insolvency issues
  • Directors and officers liability actions
  • Claims resolution and prosecution
  • Assumption & assignment of real and personal property leases
  • Intellectual property license disputes
  • Stay relief motions
  • Post-litigation rights and appeals
See our work in this area