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Schiff Hardin LLP's Jason Torf will speak at the Secured Transactions: Documentation and Enforcement Under Article 9 Course Sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
November 09, 2007
 Jason M. Torf |
Jason M. Torf, a partner in Schiff Hardin's Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Group, will speak at the Secured Transactions: Documentation and Enforcement Under Article 9 course sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE). Mr. Torf's session is "Creating, Perfecting and Enforcing Security Interests Outside of Bankruptcy." He is also the author of the chapter "Perfecting Article 9 Security Interests Under Illinois Law" in IICLE's Secured Transactions handbook. The program is scheduled for January 10 in Springfield, Ill. and January 16 in Chicago.
Mr. Torf is experienced in various aspects of both Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy proceedings. He has experience representing both secured and unsecured (including priority) creditors, landlords, indenture trustees, post-petition debtor-in-possession lenders, Chapter 11 debtors-in-possession, and Chapter 7 trustees. He also has experience working with unsecured creditors’ committees and representing individual creditors as committee members. He frequently represents utility companies, pipelines, and forward contract merchants and has particular experience negotiating and litigating adequate assurance issues under the Bankruptcy Code and non-bankruptcy law.
Mr. Torf also has extensive experience representing commercial and industrial landlords in significant bankruptcy cases across the country with respect to their assertion of rejection claims, post-petition administrative claims, and myriad other issues. His practice also includes the defense of preference and fraudulent transfer actions. Mr. Torf regularly represents clients in commercial litigation matters, both in bankruptcy courts and in various other federal and state courts. He has also represented financially distressed businesses in workouts and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
