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Secured and Major Unsecured Creditors

Secured creditors and major unsecured creditors exercise considerable leverage in shaping a company's chapter 11 reorganization. Members of our firm have frequently represented such creditors, including:

Hilton Hotels and Six Continents Hotels
Hotel franchisors and operators in numerous chapter 11 cases.

National Broadcasting Company
We successfully litigated setoff claims in the chapter 11 case of De Laurentiis Entertainment Group.

PaineWebber Funding
PaineWebber held over $40 million in claims in the Nevada chapter 11 case of Orion Land Development. Two real estate investment trusts sponsored by PaineWebber Properties held claims in excess of $100 million in the Angeles Corporation chapter 11 case.

Safeway Corporation
Safeway held over $30 million in claims in the chapter 11 case of Liquor Barn.

The Hahn Company
This nationwide shopping-mall developer faced various issues in connection with the Carter Hawley Hale chapter 11 case.

Three Stooges-Comedy III Productions
We represented the heirs of Larry Fine and Curly Joe DeRita and Comedy III, the business vehicle of the Three Stooges, as creditors against the heirs of Moe Howard, who had filed chapter 11 to avoid a judgment determining ownership of rights to the Three Stooges.