Eric E. Johnson
Eric E. Johnson helps his creditor and business clients protect their financial rights and investments, maximize their recoveries and minimize losses, and successfully manage insolvency risks and issues that arise in their financial transactions with other firms and in their own enterprises. Eric’s understanding of the ways in which bankruptcy risks and insolvency issues can arise and be resolved in a broad spectrum of legal and financial subject-matter areas allows him to assist clients in a multitude of businesses and industries. His clients have included national and international lenders, sports leagues and teams, electronic media companies, computer and pharmaceutical manufacturers, venture capitalists, real estate investment firms, natural resource and energy companies, large nonprofit organizations, bankruptcy trustees and environmental claimants, among others.
Whether he’s representing clients in bankruptcy cases or nonbankruptcy courts, helping them to achieve their business and financial goals through practical strategies, or analyzing and resolving insolvency issues through negotiated solutions, Eric focuses on formulating creative, cost-effective and protective answers to clients’ problems in many complex corporate and financial contexts. Some of those situations include commercial debtor-creditor matters, distressed merger and acquisition transactions, asset sales, real and personal property foreclosures and other collection strategies, structured and asset-based financing transactions, corporate restructuring and workout arrangements, intellectual property sales, financing and licensing transactions, environmental claims and advising corporate boards on fiduciary duties.
Notably, Eric was appointed by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation as lead counsel to the trustee in the liquidation of a regional securities broker-dealer. Over the course of 13 years, Eric successfully satisfied all claims of the brokerage’s defrauded securities customers through settlement recoveries and litigation victories. The 11 judgments that Eric helped win for the trustee, primarily in fraudulent transfer cases, and 14 victories in appellate proceedings included a federal court jury verdict awarding the trustee full compensatory and punitive damages on complex fraudulent transfer, breach of fiduciary duty and alter ego claims against the brokerage’s principal.
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