Firm founder Camisha L. Simmons, Esq. has been named a 2016 "New York Metro Rising Star."

Firm founder Camisha L. Simmons, Esq. has been named a 2016 "New York Metro Rising Star" by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Rating Service. The honor is reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. No more than 2.5 percent of eligible lawyers in New York are named to the "New York Rising Stars" list. The New York Metro Rising Stars list will be published in the New York Metro Super Lawyers Magazine in October 2016, as a New York Metro Super Lawyers supplement in The New York Times newspaper on October 2, 2016, and as a New York Metro Top Women Super Lawyers supplement in The New York Times newspaper on Sunday, March 26, 2017.

"Unique Issues Involved in Oil and Gas Bankruptcies and Restructurings” ...

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Firm Founder Named 2016 "Texas Rising Star" by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Rating Service

For the third year in a row, Camisha Simmons, founder and Managing Member of Simmons Legal PLLC, was named to the annual “Texas Rising Stars” list published by Super Lawyers magazine, a Thomson Reuters rating service.  No more than 2.5 percent of eligible lawyers in the state of Texas are named to the "Texas Rising Stars" list.

Video: Firm Founder Camisha Simmons discusses "Bankruptcy & Restructuring in the Oil & Gas Sector"

Firm Founder Camisha L. Simmons, Esq. Honored as National Black Lawyers “Top 40 Under 40”

Firm founder Camisha L. Simmons has been named by The National Black Lawyers as one of its “Top 40 Under 40.”  The honor is bestowed upon outstanding Black attorneys under the age of 40 who exemplify superior leadership, reputation, influence, stature and profile as a black lawyer. Only 40 black lawyers from each state or region are selected for membership each year.

Lenders and Directors Beware of the Dead-Hand Proxy Put

Shareholder activism is on the rise.  And, shareholder litigation against public company boards and management often increases when a public company is underperforming in relation to its industry competitors and/or is experiencing financial distress. 

Bankruptcy and insolvency practitioners should, therefore, take note of recent shareholder litigation against company boards and lenders challenging “proxy put” provisions in debt agreements (“Loan Agreements”).  If a proxy put provision under a Loan Agreement is triggered, a default occurs and the lender may accelerate the debt under the Loan Agreement.  The default under the Loan Agreement may precipitate cross-defaults under other Loan Agreements which could ultimately land a public company in bankruptcy. 

 

 

Read this ABI Journal article which discusses proxy put provisions in Loan Agreements, as well as recent litigation in the Healthways case highlighting the dangers of the “dead hand” proxy put, and provides company directors and lenders with best practices for avoiding breach of fiduciary and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary claims.

 

Download the article at http://www.simmonslegal.solutions/lenders-and-directors-beware-of-the-dead-hand-proxy-put.html