Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Gordon Arata assists clients as they face the myriad of insolvency, restructuring, and creditors' rights issues that arise in business. The firm's practice group has a breadth of experience it takes. It includes a former bankruptcy judge, attorneys with decades of experience and multiple former judicial law clerks. In addition to lawyers admitted to practice before state and federal courts in Louisiana, Texas, and various other states, the firm's ranks include former business owners and consultants, CEOs and entrepreneurs with real world understanding of the problems clients face.

The firm's experience includes:

• Representing debtors, creditors, and other interested parties in connection with workouts, foreclosures, Chapter 11 reorganizations, Chapter 7 liquidations and adversary proceedings
• Representing debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders
• Acting as court appointed bankruptcy trustees
• Representing bankruptcy trustees
• Representing Unsecured Creditors’ Committees
• Representing parties to leases, executory contracts and license agreements in bankruptcy proceedings
• Prosecuting and defending Louisiana Oil Well Lien Act (LOWLA) claims
• Evaluating lien priorities
• Prosecuting and defending preference, fraudulent conveyance and other avoidance actions
• Section 363 sales
• Preparing of claims in bankruptcy
• Representing creditors in discharge complaints against debtors
• Mediation
• Serving as local counsel before Louisiana bankruptcy courts and as oil and gas counsel in bankruptcy cases