J Barrett Marum

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative matters: Counsel to the Chapter 7 Trustee in re Pacific Metro, LLC, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 10-55788-SLJ.
  Debtors' counsel in six administratively consolidated bankruptcy cases pending in the Southern District of California in re Vail Lake Rancho California, LLC, Case No. 12-16684-LA11.
  Obtained confirmation on behalf of a Chapter 11 Trustee, within 175 days of the Trustee's appointment, of a full payment
  fully consensual plan in re Ramesh
  Sina Akhtarzad, Central District of California Case No. 2:11-bk-61640-RN.
  Counsel to the Official Joint Committee of Unsecured Creditors in re Siliken Manufacturing USA, Inc.
  Siliken USA, Inc., administratively consolidated into Southern District of California Case No. 13-00119-CL11
  Represented ad hoc committee of owners of eleven franchises in Pat & Oscar's bankruptcy proceedings filed in the Central District of California.
  Represented a receiver appointed by the Northern District of California over real estate in California, Arizona
  Idaho worth multiple millions. Assisted the Receiver in successfully liquidating all assets of the estate.
  Represented a receiver appointed over a cable franchise in National City
  Chula Vista. Obtained approval of sale of the business to lender via a credit bid.
  Represented secured creditor holding a claim in excess of $9 million in bankruptcy proceedings pending in the Central District of California.
  Obtained stay relief in a single asset real estate case for a secured creditor owed more than $15 million.
  Second chair trial counsel for a lender in a breach of guaranty action filed in Fresno Superior Court that resulted in a $7.5 million judgment for the lender.
  Represented affordable housing developer's equity interests as a co-plan proponent in Chapter 11 proceedings pending in the Western District of Tennessee.
  Special litigation counsel
  counsel to equity interest holder in San Diego bankruptcy proceedings involving the enforceability of affordable housing restrictions.
  Represented a creditor with a claim against several debtors of more than $115 million. Obtained confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation as a co-plan proponent.
  Obtained sua sponte summary judgment for a client on fraudulent transfer claims asserted by one of a debtor's creditors.
  Negotiated
  documented workouts of multi-million dollar loans for a major lender.
  Lead attorney representing a major originator
  holder of option-arm
  negative amortization loans in hundreds of borrower lawsuits across the United States.