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The Art of Resolving a Complex Loan Payoff
FRB’s creditor and debtor rights team skillfully navigated a complex loan payoff involving a challenging situation with an assertive and unpredictable offshore lender. Faced with the looming threat from the private lender to take action against our clients’ coop, our team explored creditor protection options to alleviate the strain and potentially restructure the claim. Using bankruptcy as a settlement anchor, we successfully brought the parties to the negotiating table after 14 years of stress and uncertainty. Throughout the process, our dedicated team played a crucial role in ensuring the closing stayed on course despite the need for multiple extensions to meet funding deadlines. This achievement was the result of a truly collaborative effort by our skilled and committed team.
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FRB Secures Full Allowance of Disputed Earn Claim in Crypto Bankruptcy
FRB’s Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Practice Group successfully represented a cryptocurrency account holder whose six-figure Earn Account claim was challenged in a Chapter 11 proceeding. After the claim was targeted in an omnibus objection alleging insufficient support, FRB conducted a detailed review of blockchain transaction data and custodial records, confirming that the client’s deposits were legitimate and directly traceable to assets later recovered by the debtor.
FRB demonstrated that the claim qualified for treatment under the confirmed Chapter 11 plan and, through negotiation, secured a stipulated order allowing the claim in full. The Bankruptcy Court approved the resolution, preserving more than $111,000 in digital asset value and underscoring FRB’s experience navigating complex cryptocurrency insolvency matters.
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From Pop Shop to Syndicate
While starting as a small family-owned HVAC business in New York, FRB’s Corporate & Securities attorneys initially helped its owner undergo an asset purchase sale for $22.5M. Not long after, its owner realized that he had the ability and industry-related business acumen to grow similar companies from the ground up, and he began acquiring other HVAC-related businesses in the same space. Since then, we have helped this successful entrepreneur evaluate the viability of prospective acquisitions, uniquely structure each purchase to protect his business interests, and add several HVAC-related companies to his business portfolio.
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Full Recovery for Vendor in High-Profile Chapter 11 Through Contract Assumption
FRB’s Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Law attorneys routinely represent creditors in high-profile Chapter 11 cases, including one such representation involving a well-known 150-year-old supermarket chain. FRB attorneys represented a “critical vendor” who was not only owed a significant amount of money pre-petition, but faced a potential adversary proceeding lawsuit to recover funds it was paid by the debtor within 90 days of the bankruptcy filing. The Debtor refused to recognize FRB’s client as a “critical vendor.” Rather than accept the debtor’s decision, FRB attorneys negotiated an assumption of the executory contract between the parties which required the Debtor to pay FRB’s client’s pre-petition claim in full. The added “bonus” for the client was that by assuming the agreement, the Debtor effectively waived any preference claim. A similar result would not have occurred had FRB’s client been granted “critical vendor” status. Our firm’s ability to pivot and provide outside-the-box thinking is one way to turn what appears to be a hopeless situation into a winning outcome. This matter was handled by the attorneys in our Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Law Practice Group prior to joining FRB earlier this year.
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Favorable Outcome in NYC Campaign Finance Board Investigation and Hearing
A client came to FRB’s Election Law & Campaign Finance attorneys believing the New York City Campaign Finance Board (“CFB”) had messed up their audit. However, upon further review by our attorneys and discussions with the CFB, it was discovered that the Campaign was under internal investigation for alleged malfeasance. Our Compliance unit worked tirelessly with the Campaign and the CFB and ultimately received a positive outcome for the Campaign at the CFB hearing. If you are running for office, managing a campaign, or representing a political organization, FRB has the knowledge and experience to assist you in campaign finance matters.