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Tom is experienced in representing a broad range of entities in complex commercial bankruptcy cases including, among others, debtors, committees, debtor-in-possession lenders, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, landlords, lessors, insurers, and parties purchasing assets. He regularly defends preference and fraudulent transfer actions and participates in the preparation of opinion letters regarding bankruptcy law matters in connections with complex commercial transactions.

Ms. Darby is the co-founder of DARBY | BROWN-EDWARDS LLC, is the Firm’s Managing Partner, and heads the Firm’s business and corporate litigation practice. She concentrates her practice on corporate bankruptcy and restructuring and commercial and corporate litigation. Johnna has experience representing creditors and interested parties, among others, in Chapter 11 cases and adversary proceedings. She also represents businesses in various contexts, including business and commercial disputes pending in federal and state courts.  Darby | Brown-Edwards LLC is a State of Delaware certified women-owned and minority-owned business.

I am a bankruptcy, restructuring, litigation and renewable energy lawyer.   I have over 20 years of experience in the restructuring field involving many of the largest and most complicated business reorganizations, out-of-court restructuring matters, workouts, liquidations and distressed acquisitions and sales in Delaware’s state and federal courts, as well as in other jurisdictions across the country.. I also have wide-ranging commercial transactions and other transactional experience, representing clients as in-house counsel, as well as a private practitioner.   From 2005 to early 2009, I served as General Counsel of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a clean energy leader and one of the largest competitive energy suppliers in North America.   At NextEra, I oversaw all legal aspects relating to the company’s activities.. Prior to entering private practice in 1996, I was a member of the corporate legal department for The Columbia Gas System, Inc., where I focused primarily on the bankruptcy proceedings of Columbia and its subsidiary, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, until their successful emergence from bankruptcy protection in 1995.

Greg is a partner at the Wilmington, Delaware law firm of Pinckney, Weidinger, Urban & Joyce, LLC and a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group. He has been involved in all aspects of financial restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware and in other jurisdictions on behalf of a wide range of clients, including debtors, corporate and individual creditors, committees and other parties in interest. In addition, Greg has represented clients in corporate, commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation matters before the Delaware Court of Chancery, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Erin Brignola devotes 95% of her personal bankruptcy/individual bankruptcy practice in New Castle County, Kent County and Sussex County in Delaware.  Erin Brignola helps individuals and business file successfully for debt relief. Erin Brignola provides attention to detail to tailor her representation to each client’s individual needs. Erin Brignola provides remedies for each individual and/or small business owner to protect their assets including their home, cars, bank accounts, retirement accounts and their business and income livelihood.. Erin Brignola has and continues to actively serve her Delaware Community as a legal service volunteer attorney for the Delaware State Bar Association, and Delaware Volunteer Legal Services and serves on the referral panel. Since the inception in 2006, she has proudly served as the Vice-Chair to the Consumer Bankruptcy Section to assist and mentor other attorneys to become better advocates for their clients. She is well known in the Delaware legal community as someone who is easily approachable and will always try to help. Erin is a member of many organizations both locally and nationally to continue her education to provide for her clients the best possible results. She is voted every year as a TOP Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney in Delaware Today magazine. (2001-2024). Erin Brignola has been a speaker and guest lecturer for many local and national organizations regarding the elements of bankruptcy case law and the interaction of bankruptcy law in family law, real estate title and foreclosure issues, and wills and inheritance.. If you need to file personal bankruptcy in Delaware, call Erin Brignola with your questions so that she and her team can help you make informative decisions about filing for individual bankruptcy in Delaware.. #personalbankruptcydelaware #personalbankruptcyattorney #bankruptcynewcastlecounty #bankruptcysussexcounty #bankruptcykentcounty

Eric J. Monzo focuses his practice primarily on issues relating to business restructuring and insolvency. He regularly represents a wide range of stakeholders including corporate debtors, commercial creditors, official and unofficial committees, trustees, lender groups, agents to syndicated lending groups, financial institutions, principal financial and private equity sponsors, officers, insurers, accountants, and financial advisors.. Eric handles matters relating to the restructuring and liquidation of companies in a broad range of industries with specialization in construction, energy, finance, food and beverage, healthcare, technology, transportation, real estate and retail. Eric is experienced in representation of clients regarding multi-jurisdictional and international insolvency proceedings and litigation.. A specific area of focus of Eric’s practice includes assisting clients regarding complex legacy liability issues in bankruptcy such as environmental, pension, union and similar types of claims.. While in law school, Eric was a member of Law Review. Upon graduation, Eric served as the law clerk for The Honorable Mary Pat Thynge, United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, District of Delaware. Eric earned a certification in employee benefits and estate planning through the Temple University School of Law and assists entities, such as employee and healthcare benefit plans and trustees relating to issues of executive compensation, deferred compensation, severance, and ERISA in the context of bankruptcy.. Practice areas:• Bankruptcy and Restructuring• Committee Representations• Distressed Entity, Insolvency Counseling• Litigation and Liquidation Trustees• Corporate and Fiduciary Litigation• Legal Opinions• Bankruptcy in Mass Tort Litigation• Blockchain Technologies, Cryptocurrency Bankruptcies, and Claw-Back Litigation• Energy Industry

Dave focuses his practice on commercial and corporate bankruptcy, commercial and general litigation, and corporate law. Dave has experience in all aspects of corporate and personal bankruptcy having practiced many years for the bankruptcy section of the Department of Justice. Dave also has experience in various aspects of litigation, including lead trial counsel in a number of civil and commercial litigation cases in federal and state courts.. Prior to forming Bielli & Klauder, Dave spent ten years as a Trial Attorney for the Office of the United States Trustee, the bankruptcy arm of the Department of Justice. As an attorney in the Wilmington, Delaware office of the U.S. Trustee’s Office, Dave had primary responsibility on behalf of the federal government for some of the largest corporate Chapter 11 bankruptcies in the country, including, among others, Owens Corning, W.R. Grace & Co., Tribune Co., Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. and NewPage Corp. He was also selected to be a part of the team at the U.S. Trustee’s Office providing assistance on the historic General Motors chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Dave has litigated numerous complex matters in federal bankruptcy courts in Delaware and Pennsylvania. His responsibilities for the U.S. Trustee’s Office also included forming creditors’ committees, conducting debtor examinations, drafting objections, motions, and other pleadings, and appearing in federal bankruptcy court on a routine basis on various matters.. After leaving the U.S. Trustee's Office, Dave joined O'Kelly Ernst & Bielli, LLC, where he helped expand their bankruptcy and litigation practices in both Delaware and Pennsylvania. Dave then left O'Kelly Ernst & Bielli and formed Bielli & Klauder with Tom Bielli in October 2015, and continues to grow his practice areas

Christopher Ward represents distressed companies with a business-minded, client-driven approach. He has represented clients in corporate bankruptcy, financial restructuring, bankruptcy litigation, and distressed asset sales for the last two decades. He has extensive experience in Delaware in addition to working nationally.  Chris also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute, which provides him with full-insight into the restructuring community. As Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring practice and Managing Shareholder of the Delaware office, Chris routinely tackles financial restructurings, litigation, and asset sales with a creative and aggressive approach. He has significant experience in representing Chapter 11 debtors and Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors, which allows him to provide his clients with compressive insight into both sides of the restructuring industry. As a result, Chris advises his clients in situations where a negotiated resolution may be the appropriate course of action or, when an agreement cannot be reached, he aims to zealously push his client’s interests forward in litigation. Chris leads Polsinelli’s national bankruptcy practice from Delaware, but practices all across the country.  Whether it be a bankruptcy, or another restructuring alternative, Chris has the depth and breadth in his practice to represent clients in distressed deals no matter where they arise.

Chris Samis focuses his legal practice on corporate bankruptcy, restructuring and other insolvency-related matters. He routinely represents both debtors and creditors in chapter 11 and chapter 7 bankruptcy cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Chris also represents assignees for the benefit of creditors in the Chancery Court of Delaware.

BERNARD G. CONAWAY is the founding member of Conaway-Legal LLC. Over the course of his 30 year career he’s served as a law clerk to former Clarence Taylor, of the Superior Court of Delaware, was appointed and served for 10 years on the Superior Court of Delaware as a Special Mater in Complex Litigation, and was a partner in very large and small law firms.. His practice focuses on ADR, bankruptcy, practice before the Delaware Court of Chancery, corporate and alternate entity governance under Delaware law and complex civil litigation. In thirty years of practice, Mr. Conaway has been involved in every facet of complex civil litigation serving a lead and local counsel, as Special Master, as a mediator and party selected arbitrator.. Mr. Conaway frequently appears in Delaware’s Court of Chancery on matters involving director/officer indemnification and advancement pursuant to Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporate Law, for books and records demands under Section 220, served as corporate custodian under authority of Section 226, Section 275/276 regarding dissolutions, director and officer demands for indemnification and advancement, injunctive relief, specific performance, quiet title actions, guardianship, trust and estate litigation and other equitable claims. In his bankruptcy practice.. Mr. Conaway has served as lead and local counsel on every side of the bankruptcy process including representing creditors, debtors, directors against preference and insider claims, landlords, and other parties seeking to lift the automatic stay.. Since 1994, Mr. Conaway served as an arbitrator and mediator. Since then he has successfully mediated thousands of cases, including hundreds of large complex, multi-party, multi-level insurance, construction, bankruptcy, environmental, and commercial cases. He has mediated law firm break-ups, intra-company disputes, governance and financial disputes between alternate entity members and personal injury claims. Mr. Conaway has served for over sixteen years as a mentor in the Delaware Superior Court’s mediation training program. He formerly served as adjunct instructor at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada teaching civil mediation.. Mr. Conaway volunteers his time to a number of boards and committees. Over the past eighteen years he has served on numerous board and committees including the Widener University School of Law Alumni Association (board member), the York College of Pennsylvania Collegiate Counsel (board member), St. Thomas More Society of the Archdiocese of Wilmington (past president), Caesar Rodney Rotary Club (member), Colin J. Seitz Bankruptcy Inn of Court (barrister) Wilmington, Richard S. Rodney Inn of Court (Executive Committee) Wilmington, and Superior Court Committee on Complex Litigation (member). He serves as a volunteer attorney Guardian Ad Litem for Delaware children and has continuously done so since 2003.