Sessions
PREPA's Jouney out of Bankruptcy
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Wed
His primary practice is in bankruptcy, reorganization, and creditors’ rights. He has extensive experience in the field and has represented local banks, among other secured and unsecured creditors, in various bankruptcy and collection litigation.
As a member of the firm’s PROMESA Task Force, Mr. Zouairabani-Trinidad represents several significant creditors in the Title III proceedings of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (HTA), the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), and the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority (PBA).
He has been involved in the preparation, structuring, and execution of different debt work-outs, forbearance, and re-payment agreements with major debtors in Puerto Rico. He is experienced in collection and foreclosure actions of unsecured and secured debts for commercial, personal, and mortgage loans, and has represented secured creditors and purchasers in the free and clear sale of assets and/or businesses in Bankruptcy Courts.
He has defended different types of creditors before the State Courts, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Courts in the protection and pursuit of their interests, including relief from stay actions, violation of automatic stay issues, cash collateral litigation, objections to plans of reorganization, conversion or dismissal of bankruptcy proceedings, defense against litigious credit redemption claims, defense against stripping of liens, defense against claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, among other related lender liability controversies.
Mr. Zouairabani-Trinidad has also been engaged in civil commercial litigation in both federal and state courts. As part of his civil litigation work, he has serves as defendant's attorney in contracts and tort cases, including product liability controversies and municipal contracting disputes, he has been involved in RICO litigation, as well as litigation involving the Agricultural Credit Act and the Farm Credit System and other federal causes of actions.
Prior to joining the firm, he clerked for the Hon. Bankruptcy Judge Mildred Cabán Flores and worked as an attorney in the litigation department at a major San Juan firm in the areas of creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and commercial litigation.