Buchalter is a full-service business law firm representing local, regional, national, and international clients in a multitude of practice areas and their subspecialties, among them: Bank and Finance, Corporate, Health Care, Litigation, Insolvency and Financial Law, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, and Tax and Estate Planning. Buchalter has more than 530 attorneys with offices in California, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington. For more information about the firm, visit: buchalter.com.

Insolvency & Financial Law

For 80 years, Buchalter’s Insolvency & Financial Law Group has successfully represented clients in complex proceedings throughout the country in all economic climates. With one of the largest insolvency practices on the West Coast, many of the nation’s sophisticated stakeholders trust us to represent them in financial reorganization cases, both in and out of court. Our clients turn to us for our experience in defending threats against senior and subordinate secured status, pursuing rights and remedies concerning reclamation claims, secret liens, environmental liability, third-party creditor disputes, plan confirmation issues, and intellectual property concerns of all types. With our years of experience, we have the ability to quickly develop strategic legal protections to achieve our clients’ goals.

We leverage the depth of our knowledge and breadth of experience across industries as diverse as agriculture, apparel, communications, entertainment, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, technology, transportation, and equipment leasing to deliver creative, cost-effective, timely and practical solutions in the face of the uncertainty of financial reorganization and liquidation proceedings.

We have many years of experience representing virtually every type of player in financial litigation and reorganization cases: secured lenders, landlords, unsecured creditors, creditor and equity committees, trustees, buyers of assets out of bankruptcy, and contract counter-parties. To learn more about Buchalter’s Insolvency and Financial Law Group, click here.

Commercial Finance

Buchalter Commercial Finance attorneys represent the most dominant institutions in the commercial finance market. The firm has practiced in the commercial finance area since its inception in 1933. Through this representation, we participate in and shape the most sophisticated and novel transactions in the market.

Buchalter has one of the largest practices in the West Coast devoted exclusively to commercial finance transactions, which is well known and widely respected by its clients, peers and market observers. Our attorneys have won numerous awards and honors for their practice, and is the only regional law firm among the national and international firms to be ranked by Chambers and Partners as a leading law firm in the California bank and finance market, able to provide value on complicated financing transactions. To learn more about Buchalter’s Commercial Finance Group, click here.

Corporate

The Buchalter Corporate Practice Group is among the premier law practices of its kind, spurred by dedication to its clients and a deep understanding of their businesses.

Buchalter Corporate attorneys provide expert, results oriented counseling to help clients—from entrepreneurial and emerging growth companies to publicly-traded national corporations—navigate the challenges and opportunities they encounter.

Committed to forming and maintaining longstanding client relationships, we familiarize ourselves with each client organization and advise on virtually every aspect of their business operations. We have built our business legal counsel on a solid understanding of each company’s concerns, goals and day-to-day operations. By teaming with our clients, we are able to devise solutions that add value to and strengthen the foundations of their companies. To learn more about Buchalter’s Corporate Group, click here.

Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees

Buchalter is one of the leading firms in representing Receivers, Provisional Directors, and other court appointed neutrals.

Buchalter has been appointed Receivership counsel in some of the most complex and highly publicized state and federal receiverships over the past 20 years.

Beyond these high profile cases, the firm truly earns its reputation as a leader in this field by its regular representation of all sizes of receivership, providing efficient and effective counsel to court appointed neutrals across the United States and particularly in California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Buchalter attorneys also serve as receivers and provisional directors in select cases. Members of the firm sit on the Board of Directors of the California Receivers Forum and lecture extensively in that area of law. The firm also regularly seeks the appointment of neutrals in connection with the representation of its institutional and private clients, for their benefit.

With its broad experience in representing and working with large financial and lending institutions, the attorneys at the firm bring an understanding and expertise to the appointment and representation of receivers and court appointed neutrals that is unparalleled. To learn more about Buchalter’s Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees Group, click here.