Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights

Overview

Ferraiuoli’s bankruptcy practice is known for creating strategic solutions tailored to meet the needs of the secured and unsecured creditors that we represent in bankruptcies, restructuring, liquidations, workouts and acquisition of distressed assets.

Our group has extensive experience with all aspects of business restructuring and insolvency, counseling clients through adversary proceeding issues such as preference defense, fraudulent conveyance defense and equitable subordination. They have been involved in some of the largest bankruptcy cases in Puerto Rico and regularly appear in bankruptcy courts in Florida and other jurisdictions.

We Handle

  • Creation, negotiation and confirmation of reorganization plans
  • Claims litigation
  • Valuation of collateral and lien stripping
  • Cramdown defense
  • Automatic stays litigation
  • Asset sales
  • Avoidance actions
  • Dischargeability actions
  • Workout and restructurings
  • Preference and fraudulent transfer litigation defense
  • Post-confirmation fiduciaries in litigation and asset disposition
  • Equipment leasing
  • Commercial loans
  • Construction and permanent real estate loans
  • Letters of credit
  • Bankers’ acceptance facilities
  • Inter-creditor agreements

We Represent

  • Financial institutions
  • Mortgage servicers
  • Asset-based lenders
  • Auto finance corporations
  • Commercial landlords
  • Trade creditors
  • Bonding companies
  • Condominium and homeowner associations
  • Contractors

Industries

  • Banking and financial institutions
  • Automotive
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Real estate
  • Retail

Notable Cases & Transactions

$700 Million renewable energy investment

Handled the first and single Puerto Rico resource recovery project for the development, design, financing, construction and operation of a 2,100 ton/day, 80MW renewable energy power plant using processed refuse[…]
case-14 million-cedit-agreement-small

$14 Million credit agreement

Acted as counsel to bank in the closing of a $14 million credit agreement for the financing of seven solar photovoltaic energy projects involving the P.R. Aqueduct and Sewer Authority,[…]
World Class Public Private Partnership Transaction

World class public private partnership transaction

In a groundbreaking transaction and first-ever in Puerto Rico, Ferraiuoli acted as local counsel to the entities listed below in a world-class P3 transaction involving Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín[…]
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)

Acted as local counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the 2010 consolidation of three failed Puerto Rico banks, including the drafting of the perfection of a security interest[…]