Creditors’ Rights Enforcement Services

Litigation

Combining the depth of experience, industry-specific knowledge, and firm-wide legal insight, Walter Haverfield’s attorneys work with our creditor clients to resolve obligations and minimize litigation. We recognize that litigation often proves to be one of the least efficient means of recovery. However, we litigate matters when necessary, aggressively pursuing litigation when out-of-court workouts prove unsuccessful. Our team is creative, efficient, and cost-effective, always approaching litigation to achieve maximum returns for our clients.

Practice Group Leader

Ralph E. Cascarilla, Managing Partner

Ralph represents individuals and businesses in a wide range of governmental white-collar criminal investigations, including environmental, health care, securities fraud, antitrust, tax, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), federal elections and government procurement matters.

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Our Creditors’ Rights Enforcement Difference

We represent creditors in both federal and state courts in pursuit of:

Available remedies, including suits seeking to reduce promissory notes and guaranties to money judgments
Suits to enforce security interests in real and personal property collateral, such as replevins and foreclosures
Motions to obtain possession and control over collateral during the pendency of an action, such as motions for the appointment of a receiver or motions for orders of immediate possession.

We also litigate “bad actor” claims to recover assets that have been placed wrongfully beyond our clients’ reach, including fraudulent conveyance actions, state law preference actions, successor liability actions, and adversary complaints in bankruptcy. We additionally provide representation when debtors assert lender liability claims to hinder or delay recovery efforts.

When litigating creditors’ rights claims, we discuss options with our clients to develop an overall litigation strategy. We recognize that, in the recovery world, time is money. To efficiently address claims, we often pursue parallel paths to assure our clients a timely recovery, such as appointing a receiver to sell an asset while also moving forward to position cases for judicial execution sales, should the receiver’s efforts prove unsuccessful.