Bankruptcy and creditors rights have always been a significant part of Mr. Cavalier's practice. In the past Mr. Cavalier has represented parties in many of the major bankruptcy cases in the Southern District of Texas including In re: Continental Airlines, Inc.; In re: Global Marine, Inc.; In re: Premiere Mortgage; and In re: Digicon, Inc. Mr. Cavalier's bankruptcy practice is oriented equally to both representation of the creditor and the debtor. Representation has been in all phases of reorganization: pre-petition, post-petition, out of court arrangements and financing.
Mr. Cavalier's experience includes every major aspect of bankruptcy: stay litigation, executory contracts and unexpired leases, preferences and fraudulent conveyances, financing and cash collateral orders, exemptions, discharge, plan confirmation and conversion, asset recovery and appeals. Mr. Cavalier has represented numerous potential purchasers in the acquisition of assets from bankruptcy proceedings and has testified as an expert on bankruptcy law in numerous cases. Mr. Cavalier periodically serves as bankruptcy counsel for both International Bank of Commerce and Texas State Bank f/k/a Riverway Bank, each of whom have large consumer finance portfolios.
Most recently Mr. Cavalier has represented Ninfa’s Holdings, L.P. (which acquired all of Ninfa’s operations out of a prior bankruptcy proceeding) in restructuring its debt to the Liquidating Trustee.
