Bankruptcy Litigation Lawyers

Thomas H. Curran Associates’s bankruptcy litigation lawyers have deep and broad experience prosecuting and defending bankruptcy litigation on behalf of trustees, debtors and creditors in bankruptcy and federal courts across the country. The Firm’s lawyers combine their bankruptcy, bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation expertise and experience to provide clients with unparalleled bankruptcy litigation capabilities.

Bankruptcy adversary proceedings and contested matters include bankruptcy discharge and dischargeability proceedings, plan objections, avoidance and recovery actions, cross-border litigation, preference actions, involuntary bankruptcies, stay relief, section 363 sales and other proceedings. Bankruptcy litigation requires counsel that is not only knowledgeable about the intricacies of the Bankruptcy Code, but requires capable lawyers that are knowledgeable about the procedural and substantive provisions of bankruptcy, state and often times foreign law. Additionally, bankruptcy litigation raises issues of litigation procedure, admissibility of evidence, discovery and trial practice.

Thomas H. Curran Associates utilizes a number of tools available to trustees and bankruptcy litigators under the Bankruptcy Code, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure including Rule 2004 discovery, third party subpoenas and, most importantly, decades of collective experience aggressively matters in bankruptcy and federal courts across the country. The Firms’ attorneys have deep and broad experience and expertise conducting fulsome investigations of debtors on behalf of trustees and creditors, even when their pre-petition business and financial activities stretch beyond the jurisdiction in which they filed for bankruptcy protection. Likewise, the Firm often represents debtors in defending bankruptcy discharge, dischargeability, turnover and avoidance litigation brought by trustees and creditors. In connection with its bankruptcy litigation matters, Thomas H. Curran Associates has worked with some of the leading forensic, valuation, solvency and accounting firms around the globe. By way of example, the Firm’s attorneys have litigated bankruptcy matters in Florida, New York, Nevada, Utah, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire domestically, and beyond that, to the UK, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Panama and Cyprus among other domestic and foreign jurisdictions. Where necessary, Thomas H. Curran Associates also oversees foreign local counsel specially retained by the bankruptcy trustee to aid its investigations and/or to serve as a trustee’s foreign representative under the provisions of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency or its local equivalents.

Bankruptcy litigations in which Thomas H. Curran Associates’s attorneys have participated have resulted in successful jury trials, asset discovery, commencement of trustee avoidance and recovery action, case dismissals, case conversion, denial of discharge, plan denial, and further investigation by the U.S. Trustee’s office. Trustees, debtors and creditors can rely on Thomas H. Curran Associates’s extensive experience to ensure that they are zealously and competently represented in any bankruptcy litigations matter they face.