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Large Firms

Apr. 25, 2009

Heller's Unsecured Creditors Sue Its Banks

The unsecured creditors of bankrupt San Francisco firm Heller Ehrman filed a lawsuit challenging the firm's banks' secured interests, seeking $50 million to repay other creditors.

By Jill Redhage
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The unsecured creditors of San Francisco's firm-in-bankruptcy Heller Ehrman finally made good on their promise to sue the firms' banks Thursday afternoon. They filed a challenge to the banks' secured interests in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, where the Chapter 11 bankruptcy has been playing out since December.

If the creditors' committee succeeds, there...

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