Jeremy M. Campana

Practices

• Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
• Business Litigation

Professional Experience

Jeremy is a partner in the Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy practice group. He focuses his practice on commercial debtor and creditor rights, bankruptcy (primarily commercial Chapter 11 cases), workouts, business litigation, director and officer liability litigation, and other commercial law cases. In addition to secured lenders, creditor committees and debtors, Jeremy has represented a wide array of creditors and other parties involved in bankruptcy proceedings, including commercial equipment lessors and financiers, goods and service providers, trustees, insurers, purchasers, tenants and preference claim defendants.

Jeremy is admitted to practice before the state courts of Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and before the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the Eastern District of Michigan, the District of New Jersey, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Pennsylvania.

Education

• Rutgers School of Law - Camden, J.D., 2000, Editor, The Rutgers Law Journal; Teaching Assistant for the First Year Legal Writing Program
• University of Rhode Island, B.A., 1997

• Lender/Secured Creditor/Equipment Lessor Representation
• Non-Bankruptcy Workout (Cuyahoga and Summit Counties).  Representation of senior lender with respect to avoidance of junior lien holder's interests in various real estate development projects.
• Non-Bankruptcy Workout (Cuyahoga County).  Representation of senior lender with respect to exercising cognovit, foreclosure and other remedies regarding various real estate development projects.
• DH&L Feed & Supply Company (Northern District of Ohio). Representation of senior lender in the context of a sale under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
• Bond Safeguard (Western District of North Carolina).  Representation of senior lender to multi-state real estate developer in chapter 11 regarding the defense of claims by bonding company for breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment.
• M&M Drying, Ltd. (Northern District of Ohio). Representation of equipment financier in connection with adequate protection requests and section 363 sale process.
• Triad Resources, Inc. (Southern District of Ohio). Representation of equipment financier in connection with adequate protection requests and sale through a plan of reorganization.
  
  
• Debtor Representation
• GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (District of New Jersey). Chapter 11 representation of multi-state manufacturer of specialty chemicals in the context of a reorganization.
• Amcast Industrial Corporation (Southern District of Ohio). Chapter 11 representation of automotive supplier of wheels and component parts in the context of a reorganization.
• ProCare Automotive Service Solutions LLC (Northern District of Ohio). Chapter 11 representation of regional automotive service supplier in the context of a sale of substantially all of its assets and liquidation.
  
  
• Creditor Committee Representation
• Atlantic Metal Products, Inc. (District of New Jersey). Representation of the Creditors' Committee with respect to a sheet metal manufacturer.
  
  
• Creditor Representation
• Blue Water Automotive, Inc. (Eastern District of Michigan).  Representation of multiple section 503(b)(9) creditors in the context of an automotive supplier's Chapter 11 case.
• I.E. Liquidation, Inc. (Northern District of Ohio).  Representation of largest unsecured creditor in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding involving significant litigation over enforceability of a binding arbitration agreement and litigation of claim.
  
  
• Director and Officer Liability
• LTV Steel, Inc. v. William Bricker, et al. (Northern District of Ohio). Representation of officers in connection with breach of fiduciary duty and deepening insolvency claims arising out of unsuccessful efforts to restructure complex, multi-state integrated steel mill operations.

• “Pre-BAPCPA Case Law Interpreting the Ordinary–Course Defense is Alive and Well” · American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, July 2011
• “Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Industry Standard Preference Defense Post-BAPCPA” · Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, September 2010
• "Short Circuited: Section 502(d) May be Applied to §503(b)(9)" · American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, June 2010
• "Proportedly Fraudulently-Transferred Property as Property of the Estate Before Judicial Determination" · American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, June 2009
• "Debtors have Multiple Options in Dealing with Bankruptcies" · Crain's Cleveland Business , March 2006
• Co-author · "A Supreme Debate- the Discharge of Non-Debtor Entities under Chapter 11," · Norton's Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law , Fall 2003
• Case comment, Commonwealth v. Cass · 30 Rutgers L.J. 1388 , 1999

• Bankruptcy Issues Affecting Environmental Matters, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, November 2010
• Moderator of Panel Regarding Workouts and Bankruptcies from a Lenders’ Perspective, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association/Turnaround Management Association, November 2010
• Panel discussion on Creditors’ Rights, William J. O’Neill Institute, May 2010
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Section 363 Sale Basics; Fall 2009
• National Business Institute Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and Alternatives, Cleveland, Winter 2008
• Bankruptcy Considerations in Loan Documents, Lorman Education Services, Fall 2006
• "New Creditor Strategies for Old Problems: Taking Advantage of the 2005 Bankruptcy Code Amendments", Cincinnati and Cleveland, Spring 2006
• "A Preference Primer" and "The Fiduciary Duties of Directors and Officers of Corporations that are Solvent, Insolvent and in the Zone of Insolvency", Cleveland Chapter of the Ohio Society of CPAs, December 2003

• Selected as a Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyer magazine in 2008-2012
• Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Ohio, 2010 and 2011