Douglas Draper

Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Appeals; Bankruptcy Litigation; Chapter 11 Business Reorganization; Commercial & Transactional; Commercial Finance; Commercial Litigation; Corporate & Commercial; Litigation

Louisiana Bar Association; Colorado Bar Association; Federal Illinois Bar Association

“Five Aggressive Debtor Techniques, Debtor Representation” – Speaker, Commercial Law League; “In Re Failco, A Case Model” – Speaker, Louisiana State Bar Association; “Single Asset Bankruptcy Ahlers and Beyond, Single Asset Issues” – Speaker, Commercial Law League; “Bankruptcy Issues Concerning Officers and Directors” – Speaker, Commercial Law League; “Bankruptcy Ethics” – Speaker, National Bankruptcy Institute; Judge Schiff Welcome to Sequel to Kramer, Domestic Issues in Bankruptcy” – Speaker, Western District of Louisiana Newsletter; Louisiana Bar Association – Speaker; American Bar Association – Speaker; Commercial Law League – Speaker; Practicing Law Institute; Professional Education Systems, Inc.; National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges – Educational Chairman; American Bankruptcy Institute Unsecured Creditors’ – Co-Chairman

Douglas S. Draper is a nationally known bankruptcy practitioner having represented debtors and creditors in cases throughout the United States. He also has an LLM in Taxation from NYU which provides him with a special insight in the tax issues that are faced by a distressed company. A leader in the fields of corporate bankruptcy and commercial law, Douglas is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Class XI. His practice involves an equal mix of litigation and business negotiation. His clients are primarily debtors in large commercial and business cases, unsecured bondholders, and creditors’ committees. He has represented clients in successful reorganizations of hotels, grocery chains, apartment complexes, office buildings, oil companies, shipyards, clothing stores, an oil refinery, and fast food franchises. He has developed an expertise in the bankruptcy aspects of environmental issues, asbestos cases, plugging and abandonment of oil and gas wells, mass torts, franchise restaurants and maximizing the use of Subchapter V to minimize the cost and expense to a company in bankruptcy. He specializes in coming up with solutions to complex problems for which a solution is not readily apparent.

New York University

L.L.M. in Taxation

1975 - 1978

Tulane University School of Law

J.D.

1972 - 1975

Syracuse University

B.A.

1968 - 1971