Financial Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency

CSA Law provides a wide range of business advisory, crisis avoidance, and risk management services. With more than two decades in the industry, CSA Law has the skills and know-how to navigate clients through business and financial challenges. Through proven client commitment, CSA Law has been entrusted with the representation of debtors, trustees, unsecured and secured creditors, official committees, fiduciaries, and other interested parties in all phases of workouts and bankruptcy proceedings.

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CSA Law has unique, wide-range experience in all aspects of financial and operational restructuring as well as insolvency proceedings. Clients count on CSA Law to provide comprehensive solutions to resolve issues that often arise in matters involving in and out-of-court workouts, restructurings, reorganizations, and liquidations.

 

CSA Law has had the privilege of playing a prominent role in a variety of bankruptcy cases, contested matters, and adversary proceedings​. These include: 

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• Successfully represented clients in matters involving use of cash collateral, severance and retention programs, asset sales and disposition, exclusivity periods and competing plans, disclosure statements approval, plan confirmation, lien priority and claims objections, and assumption of executory contracts and unexpired leases litigation

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• Successfully represented clients in chapter 7 proceedings, securing discharges of more than $50 million of non-consumer and consumer debt

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• Successfully represented clients in avoidance actions, negotiating settlements of 10% to 40% of chapter 7 trustees’ or official committees’ original demands

 

• Successfully represented clawback targets and other transaction participants in pre-litigation investigations, mediations, and settlement negotiations

 

• Representation of property owner in matter involving the sale of an 11-acre property in West Palm Beach for $12.5 million following a massive fraud involving the former property owner, resolving millions of dollars in tax liens and code violations and permitting the new property owner to develop the dilapidated property into a valuable addition to the surrounding community

 

• Representation of casino and gaming company and its affiliates in chapter 11 proceedings involving a $155 million asset sale of historic casino

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• Representation of Homestead based nursery and foliage company in its chapter 11 proceeding involving a $45 million asset sale

 

• Representation of marine products supply company in its chapter 11 proceeding, restructuring financing terms and permitting 30-year old company to continue operations

 

• Representation of Chapter 7 and 11 Trustee for large banking corporation, resolving disposition of more than 1,000 claims asserted against the estate and returning 119% dividend to creditors from proceeds of settlements with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and liquidation of assets

 

• Representation of international air cargo operator and its affiliates in chapter 11 reorganization of $275 million in public debt, managing company’s labor relations, advising on contract negotiations with airline pilots’ union and suppressing hostile former employees’ litigation

 

• Representation of Chapter 11 Trustee of the estate of an unregistered investment manager and perpetrator of a massive Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of millions of dollars, prosecuting avoidance actions and recovering fraudulently transferred property of more than $250 million

 

• Representation of Chapter 7 Trustee of the estate of a former health magnate, liquidating the estate valued at more than $250 million, including marketing, documenting, and consummating the sale of six nursing homes and conducting fraud investigation and preparing criminal referrals to U.S. Attorney’s Office