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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Bar Admissions
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Education
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Achievements
Areas of Practice
Marc Barreca's practice focuses on insolvency, including bankruptcy reorganizations, workouts and receiverships. He represents creditors, creditor committees and debtors in Chapter 11 cases, and advises clients on questions involving bankruptcy law and procedure.
He is chair of the Washington State Bar Association Creditor–Debtor Section and chair of the E–Commerce and Technology Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the ABA’s Business Bankruptcy Section. He is a frequent faculty member at legal education presentations and has spoken on topics including business acquisitions in bankruptcy, changes for commercial bankruptcies under BAPCPA, treatment of intellectual property issues in bankruptcy, real estate bankruptcies, state receivership legislation, and directors’ and officers’ fiduciary duties prior to bankruptcy.
Representative Experience
- Representation of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Larry's Markets, Inc.
- Representation of the Unsecured Creditors Committee of Alaska Power and Telephone
- Representation of the Unsecured Creditors Committee of Country Harvest Buffet Restaurants, Inc.
- Representation of Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Inc. in its Chapter 11 reorganization and court approved sale of its business
- Representation of VECTRA Technologies, Inc., a nuclear technology contractor, in its Chapter 11 reorganization and court approved sale of its business
- Representation of WinterBrook Corporation in its Chapter 11 reorganization and court approved sale of its business
- Representation of Entranco, Inc. in its Chapter 11 reorganization and court approved sale of its business
- Representation of H.E. Mills Electric Company in its Chapter 11 case
- Representation of Lone Tree Point Seafood Company in its Chapter 11 case
- Representation of electric and natural gas energy sellers in the Enron, Calpine, New Power, Northwestern, Inc., California Power Exchange and Pacific Gas & Electric Chapter 11 cases
- Representation of the City of Tacoma in the NRG Energy Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Representation of International Forest Products in its acquisition of Crown Pacific forest product mill facilities
- Representation of T & W Financial Services in its Chapter 11 liquidation
- Representation of Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates in numerous bankruptcies including Exodus Communications, Metromedia Fiber Networks, marchFIRST, NorthPoint, ICG Communications, Enron, and WorldCom
- Representation of Jay Jacobs, Inc. in its Chapter 11 case
- Representation of Garden Botanika, Inc. in its Chapter 11 case
- Representation of the Pike Place Market Public Development Authority in the bankruptcy of investors in the public market
- Representation of the state court custodian in the reorganization of entities owning the thoroughbred horse Seattle Slew
- Representation of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Brown and Cole Stores
- Representation of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Saigene Corporation
- Representation of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Great Land Seafoods
- Representation of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Gen Con LLC
Professional/Civic Activities
- Chair of the ABA Business Law Section's E-Commerce Technology Bankruptcy Subcommittee
- Past chair, Bankruptcy Law Section, King County Bar Association
- Chair, Creditor-Debtor Law Section, Washington State Bar Association
- Member, Bankruptcy Section, Western District of Washington Federal Bar Association
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, Turnaround Management Association
- Past President, CENTS, a non-profit organization providing bankruptcy debtors with financial management education
- King County Bar Association Debt Clinic volunteer
Bar Admissions
Education
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J.D.,
University of Washington School of Law
(1983)
with honors, University of Washington Law Review Journal 1981-82
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B.A.,
University of Washington
(1977)
summa cum laude
Achievements
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Named one of Puget Sound’s top bankruptcy attorneys by Seattle Business Monthly
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Selected as a “Super Lawyer“ by Washington Law and Politics
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Voted to Washington CEO ’s League of Justice in Bankruptcy & Workouts
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Listed in "Who’s Who Legal USA" in insolvency and restructuring law
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Listed in "Chambers USA" in Commercial bankruptcy
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Selected for the 2007 "Best Lawyers in America" in Bankruptcy and Creditor–Debtor Rights
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