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A Culture of Performance

At Cohen & Grigsby we make it a priority to know and understand your business so that we can serve you not only as legal advisors but as strategic business counselors - allowing you to optimize your opportunities and mitigate your risk.

Our long-lasting, highly productive relationships with our clients are built on trust, service, execution and superior work product and results.

William E Kelleher Jr
Cohen & Grisby PC
625 Liberty Ave
Pittsburgh PA 15222
Tel: 412 297-4703
Fax: 412 209-1997

Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification

Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights

Cohen & Grigsby’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Group serves national and international clients in troubled company turnarounds, loan workouts, debt collections and commercial litigation, secured transactions, asset acquisitions, creditor protection planning, bankruptcy cases and adversary proceedings and corporate restructurings in non-bankruptcy settings.

Our Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Group is highly regarded nationally, serving major corporations that include publicly traded Fortune 500 companies and major banks and financial institutions. However, in keeping with the “Culture of Performance” at Cohen & Grigsby, we also represent middle market and smaller organizations and individuals. Our expertise in this field is broad in its range and depth.

Bankruptcy Planning and Proceedings

We offer extensive expertise in bankruptcy planning and proceedings — in all the venues where our clients operate. Our attorneys:
* Provide bankruptcy protection planning for businesses, banks and lending institutions
* Enhance recoveries for unsecured creditors by representing the official unsecured creditors committee or individual creditors, such as parties to executory contracts and “critical vendors”
* Represent trustees and debtors-in-possession as special litigation counsel
* Develop pragmatic strategies for dealing with financially troubled enterprises, including negotiating and structuring prepackaged Chapter 11 plans and out-of-court restructurings
* Provide advice on complicated financial transactions, including asset-based loans, leveraged buyouts and other structured financings
* Analyze prospective transactions or existing financial arrangements and suggest means of minimizing the negative consequences of any future bankruptcy
* Handle related litigation matters, such as preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, relief from automatic stay proceedings, lender liability and equitable subordination claims, and borrower fraud actions

Turnarounds and Workouts

We represent both lenders and borrowers in formulating, negotiating and documenting debt restructuring plans, debt settlements and new or negotiated financing arrangements. We also counsel clients on troubled loan recoveries and in specialized collection actions, such as replevin actions, mechanic's lien proceedings, mortgage foreclosures and receiverships.

Commercial Litigation

The members of the Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group are also experienced litigators and frequently handle debt collection, contract disputes, foreclosures and other litigation matters in state and federal courts throughout the country. Their diverse talent and experience makes them well suited to pursue aggressive but results oriented actions, both before and after a bankruptcy case is filed.

Asset Acquisitions

Troubled or insolvent companies often present unique opportunities, as well as special challenges, for asset acquisitions. We are experienced in advising both buyers and sellers as to how best to structure a transaction to maximize the value, while also avoiding the pitfalls.