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Platinum Sponsors

Polsinelli
Polsinelli’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice is a nationally recognized practice that is part of an Am Law 100 law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys, 22 offices and a national footprint with attorneys from Delaware and New York, across the heartland, to Los Angeles that provides cost-efficient legal services to its clients via a mid-market rate structure and a collaborative culture. The attorneys primarily focus on representing Chapter 11 debtors, distressed borrowers and buyers and sellers of distressed assets. The Bankruptcy practice also represents official committees, trustees, individual creditors such as equity security holders, vendors, landlords and bankruptcy litigants throughout the United States. The Bankruptcy Group also focuses on non-bankruptcy alternatives, including assignments for the benefit of creditors, out-of-court workouts, receiverships and state court liquidations. In collaboration with Polsinelli’s top-ranked health care practice, the Bankruptcy practice provides a special focus on distressed health care.
Polsinelli’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice has received both statewide ranking for Bankruptcy and Restructuring as well as individual attorney rankings for attorneys in the practice from Chambers USA for multiple years as well as Best Lawyers and other rating agencies. The practice is also widely recognized for The Devil’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terms and the Polsinelli/TrBK Distressed Indices.
Industry-specific experience includes:
- Distressed Health Care
- Oil & Gas
- Retail
- Franchise & Hospitality
- Real Estate
- Trucking & Transportation
We have represented all types of clients in every aspect of bankruptcy, insolvency, out-of-court workouts and litigation matters, including:
- Debtors & Debtors-in-Possession (DIP)
- Official & Ad Hoc Creditors & Equity Committees
- Chapter 7 & 11 Trustees
- Litigation & Liquidating Trustees
- Secured & DIP Lenders
- Indenture Trustees, Noteholders & Bondholders
- Asset Purchasers
- Landlords & Trade Creditors
- Examiners
- Plaintiffs & Defendants in Adversary Proceedings
- Chapter 9 Municipalities & Chapter 15 Foreign Recognition Debtors
Gold Sponsors

Baker Donelson
https://www.bakerdonelson.com/
Year after year, clients turn to our attorneys for help with litigation and transactions relating to all types of bankruptcy and insolvency issues. We're consistently recognized for our extensive experience in both commercial and consumer issues, including a U.S. News "Top Law Firms" national top ranking in Bankruptcy Litigation and Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, along with attorneys ranked as leading attorneys by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. We understand the financial industry, and we work closely with clients in matters involving debtor/creditor relationships, including troubled asset restructuring.
Services offered in the bankruptcy and commercial restructuring arena include:
- Bankruptcy and creditors' rights, including committee representation
- Insolvency planning and transactions
- Loan workouts for creditor and borrower clients
- Collections and repossessions
- Foreclosures
- Lien disputes and quiet title litigation
- Chapters 7, 13 and 11 representation
We also represent buyers and sellers in connection with sales arising out of bankruptcy, insolvency and liquidation proceedings. We are routinely involved in pre-bankruptcy planning issues, and have served as bankruptcy trustees and examiners in large Chapter 11 cases. We regularly represent Creditors' Committees, Bondholders' Committees, Trustees and Examiners in Chapter 11 cases, and serve as state court receivers. In Chapter 11 proceedings, we have represented secured lenders in numerous commercial bankruptcies with a wide variety of collateral ranging from real estate to accounts receivable to intellectual property. In the growing area of insolvency transactions, we have assisted clients in the sale/purchase of numerous assets, including manufacturing facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, restaurant chains, hotels, golf courses, office buildings, aircraft, real estate, personal property and a variety of other business operations.
Our experience in consumer credit issues is extensive. We have handled numerous trials of consumer credit issues before U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for major mortgage companies, automotive creditors, secured lenders and other financing sources. We have also coordinated regional representation of several national consumer lenders in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases, and defended class action litigation brought by a bankruptcy trustee in consumer cases.

EisnerAmper
https://www.eisneramper.com/services/advisory/bankruptcy-restructuring/
EisnerAmper’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Services Group provides restructuring and investigative advisory services to distressed companies, unsecured creditors, senior lenders, and trustees in the middle market environment.
Bankruptcy and Restructuring has the resources and depth of experience of a large firm without the levels of bureaucracy that can cause inefficiencies, excess cost, and less personalized service that lead to sub-optimal outcomes. Our results driven approach along with our breadth of capabilities in restructuring/insolvency advisory and forensic accounting /valuation services results in the maximization of value for our clients and other stakeholders.
Bankruptcy and Restructuring is a dedicated practice, staffed with experienced restructuring professionals with large advisory firm backgrounds such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Protiviti, Huron, Deloitte and Zolfo Cooper. Bankruptcy and Restructuring’s team includes CPAs, CFEs, CIRAs, CTPs, valuation experts, tax advisors, and strategy consultants. Our leadership team is actively involved in all assignments. We joined EisnerAmper because we like to do the work, not just sell the work. We provide a unique value proposition in the marketplace.
EisnerAmper represents its client’s position aggressively, knowing that the best results come from spirited cooperation between debtors and creditors built on credibility and trust.
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Pillar+Aught
Pillar+Aught is a modern, full service law firm providing commercial and personal legal counsel with an extraordinarily high level of expertise and responsiveness. Unique to most law firms, Pillar+Aught offers unfettered access to our entire team while also providing flexible pricing and added value. Traditional firms lack flexibility. We have broken that mold with innovative options for both pricing and thoughtful, creative legal solutions for the diverse needs of our clientele.
Pillar+Aught has raised the bar to become a trusted advisor whose team protects your business and personal interests with efficiency and effectiveness. Our attorneys are interesting, dynamic people who happen to be outrageously good attorneys.

Saul Ewing LLP
https://www.saul.com/capabilities/service/bankruptcy-restructuring
As no two bankruptcies are identical, Saul Ewing attorneys customize representation to debtors, creditors and trustees in such areas as:
- Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- Out-of-court workouts
- Loan restructurings
- Corporate reorganizations
- Section 363 bankruptcy sales
- Chapter 7 liquidations
- Directors & officers liability issues
- General insolvency matters
Our commercial bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys counsel clients throughout the multiple phases of Chapter 11 and reorganization proceedings, from commencement to plan confirmation, handling matters ranging from straightforward Chapter 11's to complex restructurings.
Saul Ewing attorneys have achieved a high-level of respect in bankruptcy and district courts along the East Coast, including in Delaware courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Related bankruptcy litigation and insurance industry insolvencies are areas of significant practice depth.

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
https://www.stradley.com/services/practices/bankruptcy-workouts--creditors-rights
Workout and insolvency matters, with a unique set of rules and many parties with conflicting interests, are particularly challenging for clients. When financially distressed businesses and individuals fail to fulfill their obligations, lenders and other creditors need attorneys who can help them maximize their returns on distressed debt and resolve otherwise troubled situations.
Stradley Ronon’s highly regarded bankruptcy, workouts and creditors’ rights practice assists clients in dealing with financially distressed entities and financial products, troubled credit, defaulted loans and bond debt, helping them optimize recoveries and devise strategies to resolve troubled situations. We focus largely on representing creditors of all types and sizes, with an emphasis on financial institutions, institutional investors and funds.
Working closely with members of our finance and restructuring and litigation practice groups, we structure and restructure transactions to address lien perfection and priority, fraudulent conveyance risk and intercreditor and subordination issues, as well as represent our clients’ interests in bankruptcy, insolvency and liquidation proceedings throughout the country. Stradley attorneys have all levels of experience, which enables us to appropriately staff matters and deliver the highest-quality service within our clients’ budgets.
Stradley’s Experienced Team
Our interdisciplinary team is composed of bankruptcy, litigation and transactional lawyers who help clients implement practical and effective recovery strategies. With depth and breadth of experience, we understand the various interests and perspectives of the parties, enabling us to advise on and smoothly navigate the competing interests of the many participants in bankruptcy reorganization, insolvency and liquidation matters.
Stradley attorneys are skilled at handling the full range of out-of-court restructurings and workouts, receiverships, loan sales, and asset and entity dispositions and liquidations. With extensive experience in creditors’ rights litigation, we manage all aspects of in-court bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings, including pursuing monetary judgments, collection and enforcement, foreclosures, receivership appointments and other remedies. Listening closely to our clients, we gain an understanding of their needs and offer practical, efficient solutions. We pride ourselves on working as a team with our clients, taking great satisfaction in helping them maximize their return on distressed debt or otherwise troubled situations.
Our lawyers advise on a variety of financing structures, including asset-based loans, real estate loans, corporate, commercial and industrial loans, subordinated debt, equity investments, bond structures, securities; commodities, and derivatives. Experienced across many industries, we provide guidance to clients in the health care, energy, manufacturing, real estate, contracting, hospitality, telecommunications, equipment supply, retail and wholesale sectors, among others.

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Young Conaway is widely recognized as having one of the nation’s preeminent bankruptcy practices and is consistently ranked as a top-tier firm by Chambers USA. With a deep bench comprised of over forty-five restructuring lawyers, Young Conaway has one of the busiest debtor-side practices in the country and is involved in almost every chapter 11 case filed in the District of Delaware.
We routinely represent debtors, lenders, noteholders, buyers and significant creditors both in Delaware and throughout the nation across numerous industry sectors. Our bankruptcy litigators are highly regarded, with vast experience handling high-stakes disputes in restructuring matters.
Young Conaway is also a leader in the field of mass tort bankruptcies and settlement trusts, having represented the interests of future claimants in more than two dozen bankruptcy cases and settlement trusts around the country.
Together with their colleagues in the tax, corporate, litigation, employment, labor and business transaction practice groups, Young Conaway's bankruptcy attorneys provide sound, creative, and effective legal solutions to clients in and outside of a bankruptcy process.
Silver Sponsors

Starfield & Smith, P.C.
Top SBA Creditor’s Rights Lawyers
It’s an unfortunate reality that some SBA loans will end up in workout or foreclosure. If a lender fails to follow all SBA regulations and processes, the SBA may lower or deny the SBA guaranty. Additionally, since decisions regarding the SBA guaranty purchases occur at the end of the foreclosure process, a lender may lose its SBA guaranty after it is too late to rectify the problem.
Protecting the Rights of SBA Creditors
The lawyers at Starfield & Smith have worked with SBA lenders for over 25 years and our attorneys have effectively negotiated and litigated workout and foreclosure matters in state and federal court. We thoroughly understand the ever-changing SBA regulations and use this knowledge to assist lenders in their efforts to collect assets, and restructure or otherwise resolve loans with difficult borrowers.
We strategically pursue maximum recovery of collateral always with an eye towards the SBA guaranty. We vigorously fight for your SBA guaranty, and ensure that you remain within the SBA’s regulations so that the SBA upholds its promised guaranty.
Allow Our Tenacious Attorneys To Defend Your Rights
You need someone who thoroughly understands SBA regulations and creditors’ rights on your side. Call 215-542-7070 to speak with our attorneys. You may also email our firm online. We represent lenders nationwide.
Starfield & Smith attorneys are licensed to litigate in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. If you are outside of these states, we partner with local counsel so that you receive the legal representation that you deserve. We can also provide in-depth SBA compliance guidance for clients nationwide.