Banking and Creditors' Rights

New Jersey Banking and Creditors' Rights Lawyer

For more than eighteen years, the business law attorneys of Alpert Butler & Weiss, P.C., in West Orange, New Jersey, have been effectively representing banks and other financial institutions in a variety of matters, from structural industry issues to helping specific creditors collect loan and other obligations and protect their creditors' rights.  Some of our work has resulted in published opinions. Our firm has broad experience advising and representing commercial creditors, financial institutions, and obligors in a full range of banking matters. Our experience includes establishing national precedent regarding security interests in mortgage warehousing lines, a case with national implications regarding loan penalties, and two of New Jersey's best known financial-law cases involving mortgage fees and the susceptibility of financing companies and all other lenders to New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act. We are also familiar with issues involving lender liability, extraordinary creditors' remedies, letters of credit and numerous other matters.

If you are a lender or other creditor who is owed money by another business or an individual, you have the legal right to diligently pursue repayment. Our firm is known for employing extraordinary remedies in aid of litigation or collection, including writs of attachment and capias arrest writs.

If you are a lender, contact our offices to discuss your banking or collections issues.

Our clients have included financial associations, mortgage lenders, banks and financial institutions, and other creditors who need legal representation in the area of collections, loan restructures, workouts and creditors' bankruptcy proceedings. Our attorneys handle all aspects of collections law, including complex litigation matters involving corporate borrowers, some of them involving coordination of multistate efforts.

Our collections services for creditors include:

• Commercial collections
• Extraordinary remedies
• Negotiated repayment settlements
• Restructuring loan defaults
• Protecting creditors' rights to collateral
• Liquidating secured party collateral
• Protecting creditors from automatic stays

Whether you need advice in complex financial matters, or help in collecting a debt in court or in bankruptcy, or are having a dispute with a financial institution, or need to negotiate a workout, Alpert Butler & Weiss, P.C. can help. Contact us to discuss your particular needs.