Clients rely on our attorneys for help with their complex, often emotionally charged matters because of our experience and unique approach to problem solving. Our scope of firm-wide knowledge and resources, combined with our creativity, generates strategies that range from practical, tried-and-true solutions, to innovative and sometimes groundbreaking approaches. Because bankruptcy and financial issues can be distressing for both debtors and creditors, we bring an empathetic ear and a steady hand to our clients.
Diverse Contours Require Customized Strategies
Recipients of many awards from prominent ranking agencies, our attorneys have steered clients through this challenging intersection of business and law for decades. We’ve represented every type of client and handled virtually every type of case that can arise in workout and restructuring transactions and bankruptcy proceedings. We also recognize that every matter is unique and every client has different needs and so we will listen closely to your concerns and goals before tailoring the best possible strategy to meet your objectives to secure the greatest advantage for you. Prior to formal filings, our attorneys also work with businesses to structure out-of-court solutions.
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Strengths Snapshot
All of the members of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group are experienced and available to serve our clients in all of the following types of matters:
- Asset acquisitions in bankruptcy sales
- Chapter 11 proceedings
- Chapter 7 proceedings
- Collection suits
- Defense of preference claims, fraudulent conveyances and avoidance actions
- Foreclosure actions
- Litigation
- Loan workouts
- Negotiating and documenting secured transactions
- Restructurings
- Representation of lenders and receivers in state court receivership actions
- Workout transactions
- Chapter 12 farm cases
- Representation of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 trustees
- Representation of buyers in Section 363 sales in the Bankruptcy Court
Videos and Podcasts
- Filing for Bankruptcy? Truth is CriticalRight Side of the Law: Criminal Defense News
- Automotive Insiders Podcast: Navigating a Minefield of Issues
- Cannabis Businesses in Financial Distress: Receivership—New Remedy on the HorizonWarner’s Legal News For the Cannabis Industry
- 35th Annual Business Law Institute
- Federal Bar Association’s 36th Annual Bankruptcy Section Seminar
- The Current State of M&A in Michigan and Beyond
- Turnaround Management Association’s 2024 Mid-America Regional Conference: Crafting a Grand Turnaround
- Federal Bar Association’s 35th Annual Bankruptcy Section Seminar
- MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers 2023 Automotive Supplier Legal Trends
- Virtual Roundtable — Keeping Distressed Suppliers from Being Disruptive Suppliers
- The Stevens Center for Family Business: What Is Your Family Business Worth? A Panel Presentation on Family Business Valuation
- 2022 Virtual Automotive Executive Roundtable Series
- OESA 2022 Automotive Supplier Legal Trends
- Treatment of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases in the New COVID-19 Environment
- Webinar: Restructuring Debt for Small Businesses and Family Farmers Post COVID‑19
- COVID-19 Panel: What Your C-Suite Should Be Thinking About
- Webinar: A Discussion on Bankruptcy in Michigan: What We’re Seeing, Doing and Expecting
- Webinar: Small Business Bankruptcy and Michigan Receiverships: Restructuring Alternatives in the Time of COVID-19
- Webinar: Strategies to Address Financially Distressed Suppliers Resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Webinar: Feeling the Cash Crunch? How to Manage Distressed Customers in the Uncertainty of COVID-19
- Restructuring and Insolvency Webinar Series – February 26, 2020
- Restructuring and Insolvency Webinar Series – January 16, 2020
- Greg Schmidt Joins Humane Society of West Michigan
- Susan M. Cook and Rozanne M. Giunta Recognized as Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers by Lawdragon
- Warner Names Eight Attorneys as Partners
- Nicholas A. Binder Joins Warner
- Warner Selected Top-Tier Law Firm by Best Lawyers®
- Warner Welcomes Business Development Manager
- Warner Partners Susan M. Cook and Rozanne M. Giunta Recognized as Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers by Lawdragon
- Larry Murphy and Laura You Named American Bar Foundation Fellow
- Rozanne M. Giunta Elected to Board of Regents by American College of Bankruptcy
- Warner and MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers to Present ‘2023 Automotive Supplier Legal Trends’ Seminar
- Dennis Loughlin Discusses Supply Chain Bankruptcies With Automotive News
- Dennis Loughlin Interviewed by Crain’s Detroit Business for Supply Chain Bankruptcy Story
- Warner Partner Elisabeth M. Von Eitzen Elected President of Kalamazoo County Bar Association Board
- Collaboration, Problem-solving Key to Saving U.P. Helicopter Manufacturer, Securing Jobs
- Robert Hendricks Interviewed by MiBiz for Kalamazoo Cannabis Chapter 11 Filing Article
- Elisabeth M. Von Eitzen Joins Board of Housing Resources, Inc.
- Warner Names New Practice, Industry Group Leaders
- Elisabeth M. Von Eitzen Joins Board of YWCA Kalamazoo
- 21 Warner Attorneys Rated 2022 Top Lawyer by DBusiness
- Warner Ranked Top-Tier Law Firm by Best Lawyers®, U.S. News & World Report
- Warner Partner Rozanne M. Giunta Honored by Federal Bar Association Chapter for Excellence in Bankruptcy Law
- 105 Warner Attorneys Rated Best Lawyers in America©
- 12 Warner Attorneys Named Lawyers of the Year
- Experienced Litigator Lawrence J. Murphy Joins Warner
- Warner Partner Susan M. Cook Honored by Inclusion in Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2021 Hall of Fame
- Matthew K. Casey Named Executive Partner of Warner’s Macomb Office
- OESA and Warner to Present “2021 Automotive Supplier Legal Hot Topics”
- Warner Partner Dennis Loughlin Discusses Bankruptcy Filings in Crain’s Detroit Business
- Warner Ranked Top-Tier Law Firm by Best Lawyers, U.S. News & World Report
- Warner Partners Susan Cook and Rozanne Giunta Write About Changes to Federal Bankruptcy Law That Can Help Small Businesses
- Restructuring Transaction Earns Warner Partner Recognition from TMA
- Warner Partners Susan M. Cook and Rozanne M. Giunta Recognized as Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers by Lawdragon
- 102 Warner Attorneys Rated 2021 Best Lawyers in America
- Eighteen Warner Attorneys Named Lawyers of the Year
- Acquisition of Beach Mold and Tool Inc. Named as the 2020 ACG Deal of the Year over $50M
- Warner Ranked Top-Tier Law Firm by Best Lawyers, U.S. News & World Report 2020
- Fifteen Warner Partners Named Lawyers of the Year
- Warner Partners Named to New Leadership Roles
- Warner Names Eight Attorneys as Partners
- Warner Ranked Top-Tier Law Firm by Best Lawyers, U.S. News & World Report
- One Hundred Warner Attorneys Rated Best Lawyers in America
- Eleven Warner Partners Named Lawyers of the Year
- Chambers USA 2018 Warner Partners as Leading Michigan Law Firm
- Warner Ranked Top-Tier Law Firm by Best Lawyers, U.S. News & World Report
- Elisabeth M. Von Eitzen to Participate in Leadership Kalamazoo
- Fourteen Warner Partners Named Lawyers of the Year in 2018
- Susan M. Cook Honored by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as 2017 Leading “Women in the Law”
- Two Experienced Bay City Restructuring Attorneys Join Warner
- Fourteen Warner Attorneys Named Lawyers of the Year
- Business Law Attorney Adam D. Bruski Joins Warner
- Chambers USA 2016 Recognizes Warner as Leading Michigan Law Firm
- Matthew K. Casey Joins Wayne State Business School Board of Visitors
- Chambers USA 2015 Recognizes Warner as Leading Michigan Law Firm
- M&A Strategy Update: Union Contracts and Section 363 Sales
- EV Manufacturer Lordstown Motors Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Filing for Bankruptcy? Truth is Critical
- Warner Partner Rob Davies Authors GRBJ Article on New Rent Legislation
- Automotive Insiders Podcast: Navigating a Minefield of Issues
- Take Measures Now Before Filing for Bankruptcy
- Update: Seventh Circuit Court Determines that Other Automatic Stay Provisions May Require Secured Creditors to Return a Repossessed Car
- Cannabis Businesses in Financial Distress: Receivership—New Remedy on the Horizon
- Who Keeps the Repossessed Car After Bankruptcy Filing? U.S. Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Secured Creditors
- Michigan Expands the Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act
- MI Authorizes Receivers for Distressed Marijuana Businesses
- CARES Act Temporarily Modifies Provisions of the Bankruptcy Code
- Debtor’s Statement About a Single Asset Must be in Writing to Prevent Discharge of Debt
- Those Who Purchase Debt Are Not “Debt Collectors” Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Proof of Claim on Stale Debt Does Not Violate Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Governor Snyder Signs New Garnishment Law to Ease Burden on Employers, Other Garnishees
- Circuit Court: No right to redeem property sold by court-appointed receiver
- Court Ruling May Reshape Collection and Foreclosure Strategies
- Moldbuilders/Tool Builders Beware: Permanent Means Permanent
- Suppliers, Vendors Must Examine GM’s Assumption Notice