Eric P. Israel has been a lawyer and advisor for more than 37 years for bankruptcy, workouts, debtor-creditor litigation, exemption planning, and business reorganizations. He represents debtors, trustees, creditors, creditor committees, and shareholders in complex bankruptcy and workout scenarios. Clients seek counsel from Eric for proactive advice when confronted with complicated problems before litigation, during litigation, and postjudgment.
Eric has extensive experience representing individual and business debtors, landlords, court-appointed receivers, and bankruptcy trustees, with regard to insolvencies and business bankruptcy, and state and federal receiverships, including bankruptcy litigation and appeals. He has handled reorganizations for numerous construction companies, an oil company and retail establishments, among others.
His litigation practice includes: investigating and tracing assets and transfers and Ponzi schemes; prosecuting and defending fraudulent transfers, preferential transfers, and other avoidance actions; prosecuting and defending nondischargeability proceedings and objections to discharge; representing sellers and buyers in asset sales.
Eric is also a certified mediator through the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has served on the panel of mediators for the bankruptcy courts in the Central District of California since the panel’s inception in 1998.
Over the years, Eric has held leadership positions with various California bar groups, including serving as Chairman of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (2014–2015) and Co-Managing Editor of the California Bankruptcy Journal (2008–present). He has spoken on many diverse bankruptcy topics, including individual Chapter 11 cases, the intersection between bankruptcy and family law, avoiding power litigation, advanced issues in bankruptcy sales, Subchapter V small business reorganizations, and diversity in the field.