In addition to advising on distressed asset acquisitions, highly-leveraged financings and restructurings described above, Davis & Gilbert routinely uses its experience in insolvency and bankruptcy matters to actively protect its clients' interests in transacting business with financially distressed entities or in the event a client must consider bankruptcy relief. We regularly provide guidance to our clients regarding conducting business with Chapter 11 debtors and represent our clients' interests in a wide variety of bankruptcy-related matters.

The following are just some of the types of bankruptcy-related matters typically handled by our firm:

• Pre-bankruptcy planning
• Evaluation of alternative insolvency or liquidation proceedings
• Defense and settlement of trustee actions to recover preferential transfers
• Analysis of director's and officer's duties in the "vicinity of insolvency"
• Structuring transaction terms to minimize the risk of fraudulent transfer
• Post-petition matters such as assumption and rejection of contracts, payment for services rendered and termination of relationship with the debtor