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Law Firm | Dallas | Houston | Austin | Texas
* Business Litigation
* Corporate & Securities
* Energy & Environmental
* Finance
* Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights
- Asset Acquisitions/Dispositions
- Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy Litigation
- Cross-Border Insolvencies
- Fraud & Asset Recovery
- Receiverships & Fiduciary Roles
* Intellectual Property
* Real Estate
* Transactions
* Tax

The Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights group engages in all phases of insolvency, reorganization, restructuring, creditors' rights, bankruptcy and commercial law. Our practice group has participated in many of the largest bankruptcy and restructuring cases throughout Texas and the United States. We have represented clients as debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, ad hoc and official committees, lenders and bank groups, asset purchasers, landlords, equipment lessors, vendors, investors, insurers and trustees. Our attorneys are intimately familiar with virtually every facet of bankruptcy, reorganization and the workout process including the representation of purchasers of entire businesses or business segments of troubled enterprises both in and outside of Chapter 11. Our experience includes Chapter 11 reorganizations, liquidations, out-of-court workouts, financial restructurings, pre-packaged and pre-negotiated plans, and cross-border insolvencies. In addition, we have significant experience in litigation arising out of or related to the bankruptcy process including complex state and federal court actions, and matters involving fraud and commercial crimes.

Our representation of financial institutions and other corporate clients includes counseling, negotiating and documenting a broad range of commercial finance and lease transactions secured by a wide variety of collateral. These transactions involve representing lenders, lender groups and lender group agents when the loans are made, and in all phases of workouts and restructurings of those loans. We also have significant exposure representing lessors. Our expertise in corporate finance, leasing, tax, real estate, real estate finance, environmental, corporate and securities, and complex commercial litigation matters provides a broad base of experience to negotiate, document and enforce transactions arising in the bankruptcy and restructuring arena.

Board Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification

E Lee Morris
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC
Lincoln Plaza #3800
500 N Akard St
Dallas TX 75201
Tel: 214 855-7521
Fax: 214 978-5322
E-mail: lmorris@munsch.com

Related Practices
* Bankruptcy
* Bankruptcy Litigation
* Business Litigation
* Director & Officer Litigation
* Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights

Lee has a broad range of bankruptcy expertise, having been in practice for 14 years and represented clients in all phases of reorganization and liquidation including debtors, committees, trustees, lenders, insurers, receivers, major creditors and directors and officers in a number of industries and commercial sectors including real estate, oil and gas, food service, retail, telecommunications, health care and financial planning. Lee also has a strong litigation background, having served as lead counsel in a number of complex commercial disputes and appeals involving avoidance action claims and claims for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment and breach of contract.

A representative sampling of cases and roles in which Lee has represented clients consists of: Avado Brands, Inc. (committee and litigation trustee), Clark Retail Enterprises (insurer), Dow Corning Corporation (debtor), Enron Corp. (lender), The Heritage Organization, LLC (Chapter 11 trustee), Medical Select Management (Chapter 11 trustee), Morgan Drive Away, Inc. (insurer), Paul Reinhart, Inc. (debtor), Performance Nutrition, Inc. (officers/directors), ProMedCo Management Co. (officers/directors), Search Financial Services, Inc. (plan trustee), Schlotzsky's, Inc. (receiver), Tri-City Health Centre (Chapter 7 trustee), Worldwide Cellular, Inc. (debtor) and WRT Energy Corporation (debtor).

Lee is a frequent speaker on a variety of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues and also regularly serves as part of the faculty for trial advocacy programs sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). Lee began his legal career with a two year judicial clerkship for The Honorable William Greendyke in Houston, Texas.