Bankruptcy
Business Bankruptcy and Receiverships
Rose Payne’s bankruptcy team advises businesses facing financial distress, handling Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 business bankruptcies as well as state-law receiverships. Our team guides owners through difficult decisions involving liquidation, restructuring, and the orderly wind-down of operations.
Business Workouts
Many challenges can be resolved without filing for bankruptcy. Our team regularly negotiates forbearance agreements, restructures secured debt, revises commercial leases, and works with trade creditors to reduce immediate financial pressure. We help businesses regain stability through practical, out-of-court workout solutions—such as negotiated payment terms, lease modifications, and collaborative agreements with secured and unsecured creditors.
Bankruptcy Litigation
In bankruptcy court, disputes move quickly—and the outcome can reshape a business’s future. Our bankruptcy team litigates a wide range of bankruptcy issues, including stay relief, claim disputes, preference and fraudulent transfer actions, plan objections, and conflicts involving secured creditors. We deliver focused, strategic advocacy aimed at protecting client interests in high-stakes financial litigation.
Our Practice
Our counsel avoids the cookie-cutter approach to financial distress. Rose Payne evaluates whether a workout, bankruptcy filing, or receivership provides the clearest path forward. The focus remains squarely on addressing immediate creditor demands, preserving business value, and creating a practical, informed plan for next steps. We are skilled negotiators who utilize necessary legal frameworks, such as Chapter 11 reorganization, to secure the enterprise’s future and resolve complex financial issues at the least expense possible.
We represent an approximately equal percentage of creditors and debtors. Our extensive experience representing debtors over many years has enabled us to be aggressive and efficient in achieving our creditor clients’ goals. Rose Payne provides clear, commercially grounded guidance—covering loan enforcement, collateral recovery issues, and complex bankruptcy proceedings—to help our creditor clients realize on their claims as quickly and predictably as possible.
We regularly represent secured lenders, landlords, trade creditors, judgment creditors, preference and other avoidance action defendants, and investors on a wide variety of transactions and proceedings involving protecting a creditor’s interests. We also serve as local counsel in all Wisconsin bankruptcy and other creditor-debtor proceedings.
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414-274-1400