H Bradley Staggs

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Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group

Bush Ross has significant and broad-based experience in the area of bankruptcy and creditors' rights. The firm represents corporate debtors, financial institutions and other lenders, creditors' committees, individual creditors, trustees and asset purchasers in all types of restructuring and insolvency matters.

Our Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group has been involved in virtually every major Chapter 11 reorganization case in the Tampa Bay area. We have also successfully argued matters of national importance before the United States Supreme Court.

The Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group's areas of experience include:
* Acquisitions and sales of troubled companies
* All aspects of Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
* All aspects of Chapter 7, 12 and 13 bankruptcy cases
* All aspects of structuring workouts and turnarounds
* Bankruptcy appeals
* Claims litigation
* Contract and lease issues
* Environmental matters
* Financing and financial restructurings
* Landlord-tenant matters
* Lien and mortgage foreclosures
* Preference, fraudulent transfer, and other avoidance litigation
* Tax matters

Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification

H Bradley Staggs
Bush Ross PA
1801 N Highland Ave
Tampa FL 33602
Tel: 813 204-6415
Fax: 813 223-9620
E-mail: bstaggs@bushross.com

Practice Areas
* Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Business Reorganizations
- Pre-Bankruptcy Workouts
- Trustee and Creditors’ Committee Representation
- Creditors’ Rights
- Bankruptcy Appellate Practice
- Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors

As Chair of the Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group, Brad Staggs’ practice focuses on the restructuring and liquidation of companies in a wide array of industries. Mr. Staggs has represented Chapter 11 debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, institutional lenders, trustees and creditors’ committees in many complex bankruptcy cases. Mr. Staggs also specializes in advising clients in the acquisition of distressed companies or their assets. Mr. Staggs’ expertise encompasses mass tort Chapter 11 cases, having represented Celotex Corporation in one of the largest asbestos-related Chapter 11 cases ever filed. In addition, Mr. Staggs has experience in insurance-related bankruptcies, having successfully confirmed a Chapter 11 plan for one of Florida’s largest workers’ compensation self-insurance trusts. Prior to joining Bush Ross, Mr. Staggs was a member of the Business Reorganization department of the preeminent New York law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.