Lisa Merz Hedrick

Commercial Restructuring & Bankruptcy, Corporate

Lisa serves on the firm's Commercial Restructuring and Bankruptcy team, handling general corporate and commercial litigation, as well as bankruptcy matters.

Lisa counsels clients in all aspects of Chapter 11 proceedings and adversary proceedings, including debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, landlords’ and creditors’ committees. She advises real estate developers in bankruptcy matters and provides assistance with maintaining property subject to foreclosure actions. Additionally, Lisa helps Chapter 11 debtors and creditors navigate complex oil and gas bankruptcy cases and represents petitioning creditors in contested involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.

On the commercial litigation side of her practice, Lisa advises banks, condominium associations, landlords, lenders, oil and gas companies, small and large businesses and both asset sellers and purchasers in sales and related disputes. Lisa also represents business claimants in the Deepwater Horizon class action settlement.

Lisa handles negotiation and preparation of disclosure statements, plans of reorganization, cash collateral motions and orders, debtor-in-possession financing motions and orders, asset sales, lift stay motions, voidable preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation, oil and gas issues, executory contract and unexpired lease issues, contract disputes and other matters.

Turnaround Management Association - Louisiana, International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, American Bankruptcy Institute, Louisiana State Bar Association, Consumer Protection/Bankruptcy Law Section