Bankruptcy Litigation
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Seigfreid Bingham’s Bankruptcy Litigation service group has substantive experience representing clients in bankruptcy-related complex legal disputes involving case evaluation, claim filing, contested plan confirmation proceedings, adversary proceedings, motion practice, stay relief matters, negotiation, trial preparation, and prosecuting and defending avoidance actions, such as preferences and fraudulent transfers and bankruptcy appeals.
From litigating to advising to negotiating, our attorneys have a deep understanding of bankruptcy law, its complex and constantly evolving nature, and a commitment to achieving the best outcomes for our clients.
Our Bankruptcy Litigation team represents debtors, creditors, secured creditors, creditor committees, trustees, unsecured creditors, and other entities, providing legal advice, preparing necessary documents, and representing clients in court. Seigfreid Bingham’s Bankruptcy Litigation practice is resilient and well-equipped to deliver success.
Jonathan A. Margolies
Senior Counsel
2323 Grand Boulevard, Suite 1000
Kansas City, MO 64108
Experience
- Navigating clients through the complicated bankruptcy processes, procedures, and timelines, regardless of the Bankruptcy Chapter.
- Loan enforcement and finance matters involving loan positions, priorities, claims, judgments, and front-end documenting loans.
- Debtor-in-possession financing, cash collateral, stay relief and valuation litigation, prosecution and defense of preferences, and other avoidance actions.
- Financial restructuring for both corporate borrowers and institutional lenders, and actively pursuing out-of-court strategies to resolve distressed financial situations, including the negotiation and documentation of workouts, back-end, default, forbearance and workout end of loan enforcement and agreements, modification agreements, asset sales, refinancing, deeds in lieu of foreclosure agreements, and consensual receivership appointments.
- Asset sales, lien perfections, priority and claim disputes, plan confirmations, and all other components of bankruptcy litigation.
Representative Work
- Representation of many of the largest corporate bankruptcies in Kansas City.
- Representation of largest creditor in reorganization of billion-dollar hotel portfolio.
- Successful restructuring of bond financing in the reorganization of a retirement facility.
- Representation of a real estate company in a $100 million Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- Successful reorganization of a regional trucking company in Chapter 11 reorganization.
- Representation of a consortium of lenders on a $400 million credit facility in a billion-dollar agricultural co-op case.
- Representation of a lender on a $250 million credit facility in a billion-dollar construction materials company bankruptcy.
- Successful reorganization of health club business.
- Confirmation of reorganization plan for apparel companies in Chapter 11 cases.
- Debt restructuring of a multi-state pizzeria/entertainment center business.
- Representation of a livestock company in a liquidating Chapter 11 case.
- Representation of a steel fabrication company in a liquidating Chapter 11 case.
- Representation of a public employees’ retirement system as a secured creditor in a Chapter 11.
- Advisement of multi-million-dollar loan transactions involving many types of collaterals, including multi-level borrower structures.
- Representation of a Missouri-based frozen custard chain in acquiring and leasing retail locations throughout the United States.