David K Spiro

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Bankruptcy, Workouts & Creditors' Rights

Hirschler Fleischer Bankruptcy, Workouts and Creditor's Group represents regional and national clients in federal and state courts across the United States. Bankruptcy work is the focal point of the firm's bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice. The team represents debtors, creditors, committees, and trustees in Chapter 11 cases across many different industries and specialties. Other significant representations include lenders, bank groups, franchisors, landlords, services and goods providers, secured and unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, Chapter 11 trustees, and parties seeking to use bankruptcy as a merger and acquisition vehicle.

Working closely with its real estate and corporate teams, the bankruptcy and creditors' rights team has handled out-of-court workouts and financial restructurings of all types. The team has played lead roles in restructuring of large revolving asset-based loans and real estate term loans.

The team has a substantial trial experience in nearly all types of creditors' rights, Uniform Commercial Code, construction, and other commercial litigation, including landlord-tenant matters, bank deposits and collections, bulk sales, enforcement of letter of credit, swaps, repos and other financial instruments, seizures of collateral, attachments, injunctions, mechanic's lien, garnishments, and levies. In addition to handling commercial loan and securities enforcement work, the team regularly defends clients in loan-related litigation, including mortgage and consumer finance cases and all manner of lender liability cases. The team also has experience in the collection of large judgments, particulary when it has required the institution of piercing the corporate veil, fraudulent conveyance, receivership, and similar litigation.

David K Spiro
Hirschler Fleischer
2100 E Cary St
Richmond VA 23223
Tel: 804 771-9500
Fax: 804 644-0957
E-mail: dspiro@hf-law.com

Board Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification

David is a Shareholder in the firm's Litigation section and co-chairs the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights practice group. His practice focuses on bankruptcy generally, with an emphasis on the representation of distressed businesses and business owners. In addition to his debtor practice, David routinely represents lenders, developers, landlords and other entities as creditors in bankruptcy and workout proceedings. He has served as court-appointed receiver for a variety of Virginia corporations and has represented unsecured creditors' committees and trustees in many Chapter 11 and other bankruptcy proceedings. In 2004, David earned his certification in business bankruptcy law from the American Board of Certification, an affiliate of the American Bankruptcy Institute.* David also handles a wide variety of commercial litigation matters including commercial collections and advises clients on general business matters and asset protection strategies.