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Seth regularly represents financial institutions, secured and unsecured corporate or individual creditors, and financially troubled corporations in both state and federal courts. He also assists business owners by guiding them through the process of informal financial work-outs and refinancing. Seth has extensive experience serving as court-appointed receiver, and representing court-appointed receivers, throughout the state in assignments for the benefit of creditors (Chapter 128 Receiverships), real estate foreclosures, the wind-up of closely held corporations, and complex post-judgment collection matters. Seth also assists clients with the acquisition or disposition of businesses and/or business assets in insolvency proceedings, as well as representation of both secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings across the country.
Seth Assists Clients With
- Structuring financial transactions and workouts
- Representing financial institutions as well as secured and unsecured corporate or individual creditors in state and federal courts
- Acquisition or disposition of businesses in insolvency proceedings
- Complex post-judgment collection matters
Examples of Seth’s Recent Client Work
- Acting as counsel to court-appointed receivers, Seth has handled all aspects of the sale, wind-down, and liquidation of dozens of financially distressed businesses across the state
- Swiftly and efficiently finalized the affairs of a closely held company in his role as receiver by selling a multi-million dollar parcel of partially developed land despite a hotly contested dispute between owners
- Guided a local manufacturing company smoothly and successfully through a situation where the company’s key supplier had declared bankruptcy, threatening an interruption in the company’s lines of production
- Collected a six figure arbitration award against a defunct corporation from the corporation’s owner
- Successfully prosecuted a substantial claim for theft by contractor, yielding a six figure settlement from the owner of a troubled construction company
Awards/Distinctions
- Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating – AV, reflecting an attorney who has reached the height of professional excellence and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity
- Selected as a 2007 Wisconsin Super Lawyer Rising Star, Law & Politics and Milwaukee Magazine, December 2007 issue
Articles/Presentations
- Assistant Editor, Debt Beat, Published by the State Bar of Wisconsin Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Creditor’s Rights Section
- Program Chair, 2007 Corporate Practice Institute Annual Seminar
Professional Associations
- Wisconsin State Bar - Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Creditor’s Rights Section
- Bench/Bar Committee, State Bar of Wisconsin
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, Turnaround Management Assocation