Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
Practices MainPotter Anderson has one of the few bankruptcy practices in Delaware that excels in all facets of bankruptcy law, including secured creditor, debtor, creditor committee and major creditor representations.
Clients represent the full range of participants in bankruptcy cases, including secured lenders, debtors, asset purchasers and official creditor committees.
Potter Anderson also practices in other creditors' rights areas, including out-of-court restructurings/workouts, state law receiverships and dissolutions, state law foreclosure, assignments for the benefit of creditors and secured transactions.
Our practice is known for its high level of personal service. Rather than building a reputation based on volume, the team chooses to take on clients that benefit from our high-touch/high-value approach.
The firm:
- Represents key constituencies in nearly every Delaware “mega” bankruptcy case beginning with serving as counsel to the Official Committee of Equity Holders of Continental Airlines Holdings, Inc. in 1990 and continuing through today.
- Represents clients in complex commercial litigation spawned by bankruptcy, including valuation proceedings, fraudulent conveyance cases, corporate breach of fiduciary duty cases and multimillion-dollar preference actions.
- Advises in other creditors’ rights areas including out-of-court restructurings/workouts, state law receiverships and dissolutions, state law foreclosure and secured transactions.
- Provides opinions to the financial community in such areas as substantive consolidation, fraudulent conveyances, and bankruptcy remote entities.
- Guides clients through receivership proceedings and dissolutions under state law as an alternative to bankruptcy proceedings under federal law, advising on both judicial and extra-judicial dissolution and winding-up procedures under the Delaware General Corporate Law, as well as state law receivership proceedings.
News
- August 17, 2023
- June 20, 2023
- June 7, 2023
- June 1, 2023
- February 8, 2023
- January 9, 2023
- January 9, 2023
- January 3, 2023
- November 7, 2022
- September 7, 2022
- July 21, 2022
- January 20, 2022
- August 4, 2021
- August 1, 2021
- July 22, 2021
- In re Paragon Offshore plc, et al., Case No. 16-10386-CSSJune 30, 2021
- June 9, 2021
- May 24, 2021
- May 20, 2021
- April 12, 2021
- October 2, 2020
- August 31, 2020
- July 30, 2020
- April 23, 2020
- December 6, 2019
- November 1, 2019
- September 9, 2019
- August 2, 2019
- July 29, 2019
- June 6, 2019
- April 25, 2019
- Christopher M. Samis and L. Katherine Good Join Leading Delaware Law Firm as Partners, Aaron H. Stulman as AssociateApril 8, 2019
- January 7, 2019
- October 3, 2017
Publications
- Avoiding the Merge: Closing the Dawson Farms Loophole for Bad ActorsNorton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Spring 2022
- ABI Journal, April 2022
- ABI Journal, December, 2021
- Maxus v. YPF shows that strategic decisions related to privilege logs can save discovery fights down the road.ABA Pretrial Practice & Discovery, December 10, 2021
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2021 Edition
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, November 2020
- American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Winter 2019
- ABI Journal, May 2020
- On Appeal - Newsletter for the Bar Association for the Third Federal Circuit, May 2020
- ABI Journal, April 2020
- Loyalty to the Bar: An Analysis of Corporate Charter Bankruptcy Blocking ProvisionsNorton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Spring 2020
- December 6, 2019
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, November, 2019
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, November, 2019
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, November, 2018
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, November, 2018
- Law360, September 24, 2018
- McNeill Offers a Practitioner's Guide to Federal Governmental Creditor Fraudulent Conveyance ActionsAmerican Bankruptcy Law Journal, August 28, 2018
- ABA Corporate Counsel, December 6, 2017
- Delaware Business Court Insider, September 21, 2017
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, September 2017
- Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, September 1, 2017
- Reorganizing Failing Businesses, A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Financial Restructuring and Business Reorganization, June 1, 2017
- ABI Journal, February 2017
- Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, June 2016
- ABI Journal, December 2015
- Examining Delaware Corporate Governance Through the Nebulous Zone of Insolvency Lens and Delaware ABO Related Issues in the Bankruptcy CourtApril 10, 2014
- Commercial Insolvency Reporter, April 2014
- Delaware Business Court Insider, October 16, 2013
- Delaware Business Court Insider, January 23, 2013
- National Law Journal, April 30, 2012
- Delaware Business Court Insider, April 18, 2012
- Delaware Business Court Insider, March 7, 2012
- Delaware Business Court Insider, January 18, 2012
- Delaware Business Court Insider, November 9, 2011
- Recent Decisions Illustrate the Limits of the Post-Confirmation Jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy CourtDelaware Business Court Insider, October 19, 2011
- Delaware Business Court Insider, June 22, 2011
Events & Speaking Engagements
- September 21, 2023
- March 8, 2023
- February 10, 2022
- August 6, 2021
- October 17, 2019
- July 19, 2019
- June 13, 2019
- March 30, 2019
- January 16, 2019
- November 2, 2017