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Louis has experience in a broad range of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters, representing both creditors and debtors in a number of jurisdictions. A significant portion of his practice focuses on representing lenders in commercial real estate foreclosures, workouts and related bankruptcies, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) foreclosures, termination of repurchase and warehouse lending agreements, and lender liability defense.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Represent agent banks in out-of-court restructurings.
Represent asset-based lenders in bankruptcies of borrowers in connection with cash collateral, adequate protection, stay relief and other matters.
Represent former officers, directors and shareholders in breach of fiduciary duty and piercing the corporate veil case.
Experience
Represent agent banks in out-of-court restructurings.
Represent asset-based lenders in bankruptcies of borrowers in connection with cash collateral, adequate protection, stay relief and other matters.
Represent former officers, directors and shareholders in breach of fiduciary duty and piercing the corporate veil case.
Represent indenture trustee in complicated cross-border transaction involving the restructuring of €1.3 billion in senior notes.
Represent lender in connection with the termination and wind-down of lending businesses. Represent securitization trustee in connection with allegations of “robo-signing.”
Represent lender in multiple foreclosure and guaranty actions in New York and New Jersey related to land acquisition and construction loans with counterclaims asserted against lender
Represent lender in multiple hotel foreclosure actions in connection with tenant-in-common syndicated loans.
Represent lender in connection with complex, multi-property workouts, including discounted payoff, deed in lieu, and long-term forbearance transactions, and consensual foreclosures and bankruptcy sales
Represent second largest video rental business in connection with its Chapter 11 liquidation.
Represent sellers and purchasers of single loans and portfolios of distressed loans, both in bankruptcy and in private transactions.
Represent servicer in connection with various servicing and proof of claim issues arising out of subprime mortgage originator bankruptcies.
Represent stalking horse bidder (and ultimate purchaser) of approximately 3,000 real estate owned properties and mortgage loans from bankruptcy estate.
Represent unsecured creditors in connection with the sale of claims in bankruptcy.
Represent warehouse lender in connection with workout, foreclosure and bankruptcies of large portfolio of franchise loans acquired after termination of warehouse line of credit.
Successfully defended lender against claims by former borrower alleging failure to close a restructuring transaction.
Represent whole-loan aggregators in connection with the assertion of, and defense against, claims of breaches of representations and warranties with respect to the origination of mortgage loans.
Credentials
Education
Education
- St. John's University School of Law, 2001, J.D., cum laude
- Michigan State University, 1998, BA (Hons), cum laude
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- New Jersey
- New York
Court admissions
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court - District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York