Creditors' Rights/Bankruptcy
Well-timed advice from experienced counsel is the best solution when faced with a troubled asset. The Creditors’ Rights/Bankruptcy Practice Group at Hill Wallack LLP provides aggressive and immediate action for its clients. The group implements the legal strategies necessary to maximize client recovery. The firm’s Creditors’ Rights/Bankruptcy attorneys are renowned in the industry.
Our attorneys are experienced in all aspects of creditors’ rights, including bankruptcy, asset recoveries and foreclosures, restructurings and litigation. Our group provides innovative, expedited means for our clients to achieve their stated goals whether through out-of-court restructurings, loan sales, or commercial litigation in State and Federal courts. The efficiency in which our group provides these services allows for quality services to be performed at competitive rates.
Our Clients
Our clients receive the full range of benefits of the Group’s extensive years of experience in all phases of commercial litigation, negotiation and bankruptcy. Our clients include:
- Financial institutions
- Finance companies
- Equipment lessors
- Real estate developers and commercial landlords
- Investment funds
- Commercial collection departments
- Court appointed receivers
- Secured and unsecured lenders
- Small businesses
- Creditors’ committees
- Debtors in possession
- Individuals
What We Do
Hill Wallack LLP’s Creditor’s Rights/Bankruptcy attorneys represent clients from the initial steps of attempting an out-of-court arrangement, or workout, through the stages of litigation and actual disposition of the assets. Our lawyers represent clients in a wide range of creditors’ rights and bankruptcy matters including:
- Loan documentation and collateral review
- Pre-litigation workouts, forbearance agreements and restructurings
- Commercial and residential foreclosures
- Collection actions
- Deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure
- Distressed debt and asset sales/acquisitions
- Loan sales
- Defense of lender liability claims
- Bankruptcy litigation including DIP financing and cash collateral disputes, contested plan confirmations, collateral valuation proceedings, automatic stay relief, defending claims objections and avoidance actions, lease assumption and/or rejection disputes, 363 sales, and objections to debtor discharges
- Eviction matters and enforcement of landlord/property owner’s rights
- Replevin actions
- Receivership actions
- Preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation
- Judgment enforcement and collections
- Uniform Commercial Code litigation
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- Hill Wallack LLP Attorneys Support the Hispanic Bar Association of New JerseyJune 22, 2019
- Event: A Financing Festival - A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the National Breast Cancer FoundationOctober 26, 2017
- Seminar: Hill Wallack LLP Partner Michael J. Shavel to speak at PBI SeminarDecember 3, 2014
- Event: Partner Michael Kahme to be sworn in as Trustee for the MCBA for Second TermJanuary 23, 2014
- Speaking Engagement: Matthew B. Heimann to speak at the New Jersey State Bar Association's Annual MeetingMay 16, 2013
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- New York Appellate Court Continues to Narrow 90 Day Notice StandardsJanuary 14, 2022
- New York Eviction Moratorium Set to End January 15, 2022 Will Not be ExtendedJanuary 12, 2022
- Client Alert: How the Resumption of Commercial Landlord Tenant Trials in New Jersey Impacts LandlordsJune 4, 2021
- Client Alert: Update to PA Act 91 Notice in Light of the COVID-19 PandemicApril 22, 2021
- Client Alert: Assembly Votes To Convert Foreclosures Into Affordable HomesJune 23, 2020
- Hill Wallack Attorneys Selected To The 2020 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers ListMay 29, 2020
- News Release: Hill Wallack LLP Managing Partner Michael Kahme Sworn In as Vice President of the Mercer County Bar AssociationJanuary 27, 2020
- Hill Wallack LLP Managing Partner Michael Kahme Elected as Vice President of the Mercer County Bar AssociationDecember 10, 2019
- News Release: Hill Wallack LLP Attorneys Support the Hispanic Bar Association of New JerseyJune 26, 2019
- Client Alert: Foreclosure Reform MeasuresMay 23, 2019
- News Release: HILL WALLACK LLP MANAGING PARTNER MICHAEL KAHME, ESQ. NAMED TREASURER OF MERCER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATIONJanuary 25, 2019
- HILL WALLACK PROMOTES NICOLE PERDONI-BYRNE, MICHAEL P. MORROWJanuary 16, 2019
- Client Alert: Pennsylvania Enacts Fast-Track Foreclosure Process for Vacant PropertiesJune 25, 2018
- Hill Wallack Exceeds Fannie Mae Information Security GuidelinesMay 3, 2018
- Hill Wallack LLP Attorney Michael J. Shavel Receives Award for Distinguished Community ServiceMarch 14, 2018
- News Release: Hill Wallack LLP Partner Michael Kahme Sworn in as the Mercer County Bar Association SecretaryJanuary 18, 2018
- Client Alert: U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Municipalities Can Sue Banks Over Impact of ForeclosureMay 2, 2017
- Hill Wallack LLP Adds New Attorneys To Princeton, NJ and Yardley, PA LocationsMay 27, 2015
- Update On Bankruptcy Claims Trading In The Third CircuitJanuary 10, 2014
- Hill Wallack LLP Adds Two New AttorneysNovember 7, 2013