Eric Israel

Eric P. Israel has been a lawyer and advisor for more than 32 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. 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 also specializes in handling appeals and virtually any other issue that may arise within or outside of bankruptcy. He has handled or been involved in numerous high-profile and significant local cases involving HVI Cat Canyon, Inc., G. David Schine, Prime Time Shuttle, Ezri Namvar, Toni Braxton, Tom Sizemore, CBC Framing Company, Death Row Records, and Marion “Suge” Knight. 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.