Seiller Waterman LLC

Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring

Seiller Waterman's Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group is one of the largest in the region. Through decades of representing debtors, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, financial institutions, committees and bankruptcy trustees, as well as sellers and purchasers of financially distressed businesses, Seiller Waterman is known as the go-to firm for financial workouts and bankruptcy representation.

Whether it involves complex consumer or business restructuring, or prosecuting or defending bankruptcy litigation, Seiller Waterman has handled every facet of this area of practice.

We provide counsel and advice:

To Debtors/Borrowers in need of financial restructuring with lending institutions or other creditors
Pre-petition for individuals and businesses contemplating the filing of a petition in bankruptcy
For Debtors and Debtors in Possession under all Chapters of the Federal Bankruptcy Code
In structuring transactions with regard to bankruptcy considerations
Regarding relevant alternatives and strategies when dealing with financially troubled third parties
To secured, partially secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases and other proceedings in Federal Bankruptcy Courts throughout the country
To asset-based lenders and real estate lenders about foreclosures, workouts and restructuring outside bankruptcy, including structuring and implementing asset swaps, asset sales and new, additional or restructured debt financing or investment
To lenders in providing Debtor-in Possession and plan financing in Chapter 11 cases
To shopping center and office building developers and managers in tenant and department store bankruptcy and reorganization cases
To student loan guarantors in claims and plan objections as well as non-dischargeability actions
As special counsel for Debtors in Possession, trustees and creditors' committees for labor and employment, medical, technology, litigation, intellectual property, tax, real estate, securities, and general corporate law issues
Concerning stays against lien enforcement, setoffs, preferences, fraudulent conveyances, leveraged buyouts, equitable subordination, lender liability and assumption or rejection of leases and executory contracts
To buyers of businesses in bankruptcy reorganizations, or Debtors in Possession in selling businesses - both commonly referred to as Section 363 sales.