H Joseph Acosta
Texas | Attorneys and Counselors - Houston, Dallas, Tyler
Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights
For troubled businesses, their creditors and other interested parties, bankruptcy can provide a strategic opportunity to address a wide range of complex financial and legal concerns. Looper Reed & McGraw's bankruptcy attorneys work with clients to assess the numerous alternatives available to them, and to pursue efficient, sophisticated solutions that can help minimize losses, resolve disputes and increase the likelihood of successful outcomes.
Attorneys at Looper Reed & McGraw have significant experience representing all parties involved in bankruptcies, workouts, turnarounds and restructurings. We represent clients in a wide variety of turnaround and failed loan situations, including pre-bankruptcy consensual debt restructurings, workouts of troubled loans, bankruptcy reorganizations, liquidations, receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors. We represent corporate debtors and creditors in bankruptcy courts throughout the country. Our practice also includes counseling clients in structuring transactions with regard to bankruptcy considerations, providing advice regarding alternatives and strategies when dealing with financially troubled parties, representing lenders in providing debtor-in-possession and plan financing and representing asset purchasers and investors in the acquisition of troubled companies or their assets. In addition, we prosecute and defend all types of litigation related to bankruptcy proceedings.
Our clients come from a range of diverse industries, including healthcare, general manufacturing, entertainment, trucking, automotive, food services, wire and cable, e-commerce, aviation, retail, real estate, telecommunications, electronics, publishing and recycling. Our clients include banks, pension funds, non-bank finance companies, institutional investors, indenture trustees, corporate debtors, equity security holders, court-appointed trustees and examiners, official creditors' committees, subordinated debt holders, bondholders, insurance companies, major airports, investment bankers, shopping center developers and managers, and landlords.
Within the firm, we stress a team approach, tapping the strengths and skills of attorneys in other practice groups to provide coordinated, seamless guidance on issues that may develop during bankruptcy proceedings or business restructurings. This integrated approach enables us to provide extensive expertise and unique insight into various industries and practice areas, and allows us to provide legal representation to a wide range of diverse businesses locally, regionally, and nationally. Our collaborative efforts enable us to provide cost efficient, focused, and effective legal representation.
Board Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification
H Joseph Acosta
Looper Reed & McGraw PC
1601 Elm St #4100
Dallas TX 75201
Tel: 214 237-6386
Fax: 214 953-1332
E-mail: jacosta@lrmlaw.com
Area of Practice
* Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights
* Commercial Litigation
Joseph has a broad base of bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, work-out and commercial litigation experience. As a former member of the corporate restructuring group of Jones Day, he was substantially involved in some of the largest chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the United States. He has taken leading roles in representing debtors-in-possession, creditors' committees, trustees, examiners, putative debtors, lenders, landlords, lessees, commercial creditors, asset purchasers, professionals and other interested parties in all types of insolvency proceedings, including involuntary bankruptcy proceedings and appeals. Joseph further has extensive experience with creditor's rights and commercial litigation matters, having served as Texas bankruptcy counsel for various retailers and financing companies and having represented all types of commercial litigants in contractual disputes in and out of bankruptcy.
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