Read about some of the recognition and coverage that our attorneys have received:

• W Hotel Bankruptcy Continues
  

  Jager Smith has successfully represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of SW Hotel Venture LLC and its affiliated debtors. On November 14, 2011, the Plan was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court, providing for a 100% dividend, with interest, for unsecured creditors. Most unsecured creditors received the first payment of one-third of their allowed claim. Thereafter, Prudential Insurance Company appealed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) and the BAP reversed the confirmation order. The debtor then appealed to the United States Court of Appeals, where the case still resides.

• Jager Smith and Kavinoky Cook Orchestrate Successful Purchase of Assets

  Jager Smith, together with its co-counsel Kavinoky Cook, LLP of Buffalo, New York, succeeded in their representation of an asset buyer in the consolidated Chapter 11 proceedings of K. Van Bourgondien of Virginia, Inc. and Simple Pleasures Flowerbulbs & Perennials, Inc., both pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  Attorney Michael J. Fencer of Jager Smith and Attorney David A. LoTempio of Kavinoky Cook negotiated the client's private purchase of all, or substantially all of the bankruptcy debtors' assets, and secured their client's acquisition through an Article 9 secured party sale of related intellectual property and trade names from a non-debtor affiliate of the debtors-in-possession.  The parties closed the Court approved sale on May 31, 2012.

• Attorney Awards and Recognition
  Jager Smith P.C. is pleased to announce that Attorneys Bruce F. Smith, Michael J. Fencer, Edward Gerard Jager, Andrew J. Ley, and Howard P. Blatchford, Jr. have been honored in Boston’s Top Rated Lawyers for 2012, a list of Top Rated Lawyers created by LexisNexis® utilizing its Martindale-Hubbell database.  In that search, LexisNexis® tapped the comprehensive database of Peer Review Ratings™ to identify lawyers who have been rated by their peers to be AV® Preeminent™— the highest Peer Review Rating available.  Ratings are established via confidential opinions of lawyers and members of the judiciary who have been invited to provide reviews of lawyers of whom they have professional knowledge.
  
  Partners Bruce Smith and Michael Fencer were named to the list of top Bankruptcy lawyers in Boston, and partner Howard P. Blatchford, Jr. was named among the top rated in Boston for Commercial Litigation.  Partners Edward Gerard Jager and Andrew J. Ley were named to the list of top Boston attorneys in Business/Commercial law and Real Estate law respectively.
  
  The firm’s attorneys are recognized as being among those distinguished in their respective fields of business law and litigation, and commercial real estate law.  Other honors include being named as Super Lawyers, and the AV® Preeminent™ peer rating by Martindale-Hubbell®.  View the complete list of Boston's Top Rated Lawyers for 2012 here.
• Baytown Navigation Enterprises, Inc., Makes Headlines
  There is quite a bit of action in the shipping industry in the wake of the Baytown Navigation proceedings. Jager Smith has a front row seat as an integral part of this reorganization process.
  
  
  • Kuznik Judges the Judges
    January 26, 2012
  • The Storm Before the Calm
    January 5, 2012 Paul Slater reflects on the dire state of the shipping industry.
  • When the Dominoes Start to Tumble
    Paul Slater expands on the global shipping crisis
  • Omega Launches Attack on Creditors’ Lawyers and Advisors
    Wednesday 28 December 2011 Retrieved from Lloyd's List
  • Another Shipping Bankruptcy Filing Could Signal More on the Way
    November 18, 2011

Our attorneys are active in multiple industry and charitable organizations on both a local and national level.  Come see us at the following events:

• April 18-21, 2013
  Bruce Smith will attend the American Bankruptcy Institute's 31st Annual Spring Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland.
  
• November 1–3, 2012
  Bruce Smith, Michael Fencer, Steven Reingold and Jonathan Horne will be in town for the TMA 2012 Annual Convention. The conference will be held in Boston this year.