Elliot Smith focuses his practice on all aspects of business restructuring and insolvency, with a particular emphasis on complex business reorganizations under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Elliot has experience representing debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, DIP financing lenders, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, trustees, avoidance action defendants and other parties in chapter 11 cases throughout the US. He also has experience representing parties in chapter 7 liquidation cases as well as in connection with out-of-court restructurings and workouts. Elliot has written and lectured on various bankruptcy and restructuring topics including asset sales under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and real estate loan workouts. He is the author of “The Approval of the Crysler Asset Sale: Implications for the Future,” published in Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law(November/December 2009). He also co-authored portions of a forthcoming treatise on bankruptcy law concerning the rejection of collective bargaining agreements under section 1113 of the Bankruptcy Code.
