Michael Wallin
TEL: 714.424.2853FAX: 714.513.5130
Orange County
650 Town Center Drive
Fourth Floor
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Practices
Michael Wallin
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Michael Wallin is an associate in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm's Orange County Office.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Wallin specializes in business bankruptcies and commercial litigation, with a focus on creditors' rights. He has represented secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees, parties purchasing assets out of bankruptcy, parties involved in bankruptcy litigation, debtors, and court-appointed receivers. He often represents lenders in connection with receiverships, loan workouts, restructurings and foreclosures, and regularly acts as receivership counsel in connection with various appointments.
Mr. Wallin's experience includes workouts, foreclosure, loan sales, cash collateral issues, debtor-in-possession financing, relief from stay proceedings, plans of reorganization, preference and fraudulent transfer litigation, pre-bankruptcy counseling for debtors and creditors, reorganization issues, breach of guaranty litigation, and prejudgment remedies in state court, including writs of attachment, writs of possession, injunctions and receivers.
Education
- J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
- B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2002, Economics, summa cum laude
Admissions
- California
Represents The Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange in connection with its out-of-bankruptcy purchase of the "Crystal Cathedral" in Garden Grove, California.
Represents various banks and lenders in connection with loan workouts, restructurings, foreclosures, appointment of receivers and bankruptcy issues.
Represents several clients in connection with breach of guaranty litigation, often involving pre-judgment writ of attachment applications.
Represents receiver Thomas A. Seaman in a federal court receivership involving a multi-million dollar ponzi scheme.
Represented receiver Douglas P. Wilson in a state court receivership involving the "Vue" luxury condominium development in San Pedro, California.
Represents various defendants in avoidance action litigation in bankruptcy courts throughout California.
Represents several buyers of defaulted loans.