About Cades Schutte LLP
Bankruptcy Attorneys in Honolulu, Hawaii
Our Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Group is comprised of attorneys from the firm's Finance, Corporate & Business, Real Estate, and Litigation Departments who have special and extensive expertise in all aspects of creditors' rights law, such as bankruptcy, workouts, foreclosure, enforcement of security interests and other creditor remedies, domestication and collection of judgments, and defense of lender liability claims.
Members of the group regularly represent a diverse range of clients in Hawai'i state and federal courts, including domestic and foreign financial institutions, developers, landowners, contractors, and local, national, and international business entities and individuals in bankruptcy cases, workouts, restructuring, and litigation of various types.
What Do We Do?
- Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Creditors’ Rights
- Collection/Eviction Litigation
- Foreclosures
- Fraudulent Transfer, Preference, and other Bankruptcy Litigation
- Lender Liability Defense
- Loan Workouts
Our attorneys have extensive experience in bankruptcy and insolvency taxation, as well as the reporting and taxation of debt cancellation income.
We represent lenders in the protection and enforcement of their rights, including loan modification negotiations and documentation, judicial and nonjudicial mortgage foreclosures, the enforcement of special remedies such as receiverships and attachments, and all aspects of bankruptcy, such as relief from the automatic stay, voidable preferences, fraudulent transfers, and adequate protection of secured claims. We also represent lenders, buyers and sellers of distressed real estate in commercial and residential foreclosures, bankruptcy, and forfeiture proceedings, as well as buyers and sellers of troubled loans. In state and federal courts, we have successfully represented lenders in a number of complex lender liability actions.
We have represented a large number of corporate and institutional landowners in the enforcement of their rights under ground leases and commercial space leases, as well as the protection of their interests in bankruptcy proceedings, for many years.
Although we primarily represent creditors, we also advise and represent debtors in the restructuring of their relationships with their lenders, asset protection, and Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Furthermore, members of our Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Group regularly represent bankruptcy trustees, receivers, foreclosure commissioners, appraisers, creditors' committees, and a variety of other debtor-creditor participants.
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Served as local debtor’s counsel in the successful Chapter 11 reorganization of Hawai‘i’s major telecommunications provider.Represented the interests of secured lenders and banks in numerous Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy proceedings.Served as counsel to the Chapter 11 trustee in a real estate reorganization.Lead counsel to the bankruptcy trustee in the investigation and prosecution of fraudulent transfer claims in Chapter 7 proceedings.Represented Hawai‘i’s Insurance Commissioner in a bankruptcy case filed by one of Hawai‘i’s largest local airlines.Lead counsel for the largest secured creditor in a complicated Chapter 7 bankruptcy case involving one of the state’s largest developers and obtained a judgment in excess of $40 million.Represented the interests of a shopping center developer in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of one of the country’s largest retailers of electronics and related consumer goods.Served as counsel to secured lenders in a variety of contested matter and adversary proceedings in Chapter 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcy cases, including relief from stay proceedings and claims litigation.Represented defendants in fraudulent transfer proceedings brought in the Bankruptcy Court.Served as local debtor’s counsel for a major airline in a Chapter 11 case.Represented the credit card processor/bank in a Chapter 11 case filed by a Hawai‘i hotel.Served as counsel to a number of commercial landlords with regard to lease issues arising in Chapter 7 and 11 proceedings involving their tenants and lessees.Represented a national student loan guarantor in a number of adversary proceedings involving debtors’ attempts to discharge their student loans.Represented secured lenders in complex commercial foreclosures involving a golf course property on the island of Kaua‘i, a residential and commercial development of over 1,000 acres on the island of Hawai‘i, and a luxury shopping center in Honolulu, on the island of O‘ahu.Defended lenders and financial institutions in a number of lender liability actions arising out of residential loans and mortgages in state and federal courts.Represented Hawai‘i State Court Receiver in several matters relating to Hawai‘i. partnerships, corporations, and LLCs that held a number of properties located in Hawai‘i and California.Represented one of the country’s largest securities brokerage firms in a number of arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA,” successor by merger with the National Association of Securities Dealers).Lead counsel in the successful representation of one of the world’s leading financial management and advisory companies in litigation to enforce employee non-competition agreements in the United States District Court for the District of Hawai‘i.
Credentials
Our attorneys have extensive experience in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency taxation, as well as the reporting and taxation of cancellation of indebtedness income.
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