Case Studies:
Fiduciary Services
Multi-State $400 Million Fraud Ranked as Top Twenty Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History
The principals behind the fraud, using approximately 40 different entities, obtained approximately $400 million in investments through a pattern of misdirection and outright fabrication regarding the nature and existence of…Read More
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Fraudulent Mortgage Scheme Stopped by Regulators
The two receivership entities were mortgage processing companies in Houston, Texas, or “Money Service Businesses” (as defined by Texas Statute), with approximately 18,000 customers. Both companies were sued by the…Read More
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Longstanding Shareholder Dispute Resolved Through Appointment of State Court Receiver
Two families who each owned 50% of five (5) different entities related to the operation of a 359-acre gravel quarry operation and residential concrete construction company near San Antonio, Texas…Read More
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Family Business Sold After Dispute with Multinational Technology Company
Austin Baccus Company (ABC) was the exclusive online domestic retailer of refurbished Dyson vacuum cleaners through its warehouse showroom and multiple online sales channels, including eBay and Amazon, as well…Read More
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Technology
Going-Concern Sale of Sole Service Provider to Dell Technologies
Going-Concern Sale of Sole Service Provider to Dell Technologies
The client company was strategically located adjacent to Dell Technologies, in Round Rock, Texas, and provided 100% of Dell’s flat panel monitor warranty repairs. The company was a subsidiary of…Read More
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Fraudulent Investment Scheme Stopped by Regulators
James Warr, through seventeen (17) affiliates entities was perpetrating an investment fraud on unsuspecting investors and was in the infancy of a Ponzi scheme when he was sued by the…Read More
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Real Estate
Former 110-acre Motorola Site Sold in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Auction During Pandemic
Former 110-acre Motorola Site Sold in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Auction During Pandemic
Motorola’s 110-acre campus located six miles from downtown Austin and near Austin Bergstrom International Airport was largely abandoned and sat stagnant for more than a decade prior to purchase by…Read More
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Energy
Real Estate
Guided Offshore E&P Company Through Successful Exit from Bankruptcy as Chief Restructuring Officer
Guided Offshore E&P Company Through Successful Exit from Bankruptcy as Chief Restructuring Officer
A member of Harney Partners (Greg Milligan) was appointed as Chief Restructuring Officer of Galveston Bay Properties, LLC, an E&P company with approximately 20,000 acres under lease from the State of Texas…Read More
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Real Estate
Partnership Dispute Leads to Voluntary Liquidation of RV Parks and Manufactured Home Communities in Multiple States
Partnership Dispute Leads to Voluntary Liquidation of RV Parks and Manufactured Home Communities in Multiple States
Family members of an industry leading owner/operator of RV parks and manufactured home communities across the country became involved in a partnership dispute regarding four properties located in three different…Read More
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Energy
Managed the orderly wind-down via Chapter 11 proceeding
Managed the orderly wind-down via Chapter 11 proceeding
This oilfield services company designed and produced a nanotechnology ceramic proppant used in oil and gas “fracking” but the operations never achieved sufficient volume and economies of scale to reach…Read More
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