Creditor Representations

Seattle City Employees’ Retirement System


Forshey Prostok represents Seattle City Employees’ Retirement System (“SCERS”), a defined benefit plan founded in 1929 with over 15,000 members.  The firm’s representation involves advising SCERS of its rights as a secured creditor in connection with intellectual property owned by Platinum Intellectual Property, L.P., (“PIP”) which filed bankruptcy in February 2009.  With the firm’s assistance, SCERS has taken steps to foreclose on the intellectual property, market the intellectual property for sale, and ensure that patent rights are preserved in order to maximize the return to SCERS’ participants on account of SCERS’ investment in PIP.


Gunn Oil Group

Forshey Prostok represented a group of creditors in the chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Crusader Energy Group, Inc. and its affiliates.　 Prior to the bankruptcy, the creditors sold to Crusader a 75% working interest in oil and gas leases covering a significant amount of acreage in four Texas counties.　 The creditors asserted claims against Crusader in the bankruptcy case of approximately $10 million based on the pre-bankruptcy transaction between the parties.　 Through the Firm’s innovative use of Texas law on equitable vendor liens, the creditors were able to reacquire the 75% working interest in the leases from Crusader in exchange for a minimal cash payment and cancellation of the debt owed by Crusader to the creditors, which reacquisition was approved by the Bankruptcy Court during Crusader’s bankruptcy case.

Quicksilver Resources, Inc.

Forshey Prostok, represents the creditor,  Quicksilver in Eagle Drilling, LLC's bankruptcy proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court of Oklahoma, Western Districtct.  Trial is expected in 2010.

 

XTO Energy, Inc.

 

Forshey Prostok represents XTO Energy, Inc. as a creditor in the Reichmann Petroleum Corp. bankruptcy proceeding pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. This representation primarily involves a workout of XTO Energy's bankruptcy claim of more than $1.2 million against the debtor related to certain oil and gas interests, as well the determination of XTO's claim based on operating agreements in which XTO is the operator.

 

Renfro Foods, Inc.

Forshey Prostok, acting as bankruptcy counsel, is representing Renfro Foods, Inc. as the largest unsecured creditor in a Chapter 11 case pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of Texas.　 Renfro Foods, Inc., family owned is Texas-based products manufacturer, specializing in Southwestern condiments, salsas and other specialty condiments.　

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has also successfully represented additional Creditors in such as: