Tim focuses his practice on bankruptcy, restructuring, insolvency and creditors’ rights matters. He regularly represents secured and unsecured creditors, investors, suppliers, customers, landlords, tenants, insurers and other parties in all aspects of chapter 11 reorganization and chapter 7 liquidation cases and in preference, fraudulent transfer and other litigation under the Bankruptcy Code.
Tim frequently advises clients in out-of-court loan workouts and distressed transactions. These have included sales under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, state law Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors proceedings and Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act cases in Canada, public and private sales and strict foreclosures under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, transaction structuring and enforcement of creditors’ rights under Article 2 and Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and creditors’ rights litigation, ranging from receivership, to replevin and judicial foreclosure, to commercial mortgage foreclosure litigation.
Tim also represents insurers, reinsurers, claims administrators and premium financing lenders in commercial policyholder bankruptcy cases and state court insolvency proceedings across the country.
Before joining MPS, Tim was a partner at a global Am Law 100 law firm. Before that, he was a partner and member of the executive committee of another Am Law 100 law firm. Tim began his practice in California.