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Sam’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring, creditors’ remedies, bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
Sam represents businesses, commercial lenders and individuals in the areas of debtor/creditor law, bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation. He works closely with clients to understand their specific financial and operating concerns and provides practical guidance on how to address critical issues.
Prior to joining Fredrikson & Byron, Sam served as a judicial law clerk for the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas.
August 24, 2022
By Samuel M. Andre and Deqa Mohamed
Small businesses face ever-increasing financial distress from a number of different factors, including price inflation, supply chain issues, and workforce changes. How widespread are these issues and what will their impact be on small businesses in the future?
November 4, 2021
Some debtors are taking advantage of a Texas fraudulent transfer law that allows a company to transfer its debt to a Texas entity, which subsequently files for bankruptcy, and its assets to non-debtor entities, protecting the assets and eliminating the debt. What can creditors do about it?
June 17, 2021
A number of lessons may be learned from representing clients in the bankruptcy filings in the retail and restaurant industries.
June 25, 2020
By Libby Jacobson and Samuel M. Andre
As COVID-19 continues to devastate the U.S. and local economies, the service industry in particular has experienced substantial declines in both business and profits. However, the new Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and the CARES Act have provided service industry debtors with new and potentially life-saving tools to solve their unique debt issues moving forward.
March 30, 2020
Executives and their companies facing a financial storm brought on by the pandemic can find themselves in an overwhelming spot. Fredrikson attorneys provide a next-steps checklist and wealth of resources to help weather the storm.
February 11, 2020
By Samuel M. Andre and Nicholas Hankins
What is cryptocurrency? Bankruptcy practitioners and the courts better figure it out soon as the growth in popularity of cryptocurrencies continues to create new legal issues under the Bankruptcy Code.
May 13, 2019
After the Ninth Circuit in In re Taggart set a new and narrow precedent regarding exactly what a creditor must do in order to be subject to civil contempt sanctions for a violation of the discharge injunction, the ball is now with the U.S. Supreme Court to determine what influence that extraordinary opinion will have on other courts.
October 10, 2018
The Southern District of Texas’s recent popularity in commercial filings, stemming from a number of factors, makes it a new contender to be one of the busiest commercial bankruptcy districts in the country.
