Eleanor Voss
Partner — Chapter 11 & DIP financingNineteen years advising boards as debtor-in-possession counsel. First-day strategy and DIP facilities for industrial manufacturers, healthcare operators, and retailers.
Chapter 11 · Debtor-in-possession counsel
The company still has to run.
First-day motions, DIP money, and the committee are the case. Payroll, vendors, and the floor are still the business. Corrigan Vale is debtor-in-possession counsel for leadership that intends to keep both.
FILED03/12/26
United States Bankruptcy Court
District of Illustrative County
In re:
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Harlow Ridge Manufacturing Co., et al.,
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Chapter 11 · Case No. 26-10842
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Debtors-in-Possession.
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Illustrative caption — not a real filing, court, or case. Harlow Ridge Manufacturing Co. is a fictional company.
In re Harlow Ridge Manufacturing Co. — illustrative docket
The work is the docket, not a menu of services.
Financing, operations, and the committee move at the same time. This is the shape of a DIP matter, written as the entries a board actually has to live with.
First-day motions
Wage, cash management, tax, and utilities — the pleadings that keep the lights on the morning after the petition.
Cash collateral and DIP financing
Interim order first. Then the facility, the budget, and the weekly actuals that keep the company funded.
Critical vendors
The suppliers the floor cannot lose. Motion, notice, and a payment program that does not pick fights it cannot win.
Creditors’ committee
The official committee is in. Diligence starts. Nothing in the case stays private for long.
Plan of reorganization
A confirmable plan, or a § 363 path beside it. Either way the board chooses with numbers, not hope.
Exit and emergence
Exit financing, governance, and the reporting that gets the company out from under the court.
The opening weeks
The first 45 days are hard to walk back.
Debtor-in-possession is a court-supervised job, not a filing. How the company behaves in the opening weeks is how the court, the U.S. Trustee, and the committee will treat it for the rest of the case.
Day 1
File and stabilize
First-day motions heard. Interim cash collateral. Payroll and benefits uninterrupted.
Days 2–20
Operating rhythm
Vendor program in motion. DIP budget reporting starts. Initial debtor interview with the U.S. Trustee.
Days 20–45
Open the negotiation
Committee forms. Final cash collateral and DIP order. An exit path on paper, even if it is still a sketch.
Counsel
The people who will be in the room.
Daniel Reyes-Okafor
Partner — Cash collateral & committeeFifteen years in cash collateral fights and creditors’ committee negotiations. Energy, logistics, and transportation, including multi-lender DIP facilities.
Priya Nandakumar
Counsel — Plan & vendorsEleven years on critical-vendor programs and confirmable plans. Healthcare and hospitality, including parallel § 363 sale processes.
April 2025
We had twelve days of cash when we called. They got the interim cash collateral order on day one and a critical-vendor program that kept our two terminal landlords and the fuel supplier in the room. I ran the company. They ran the docket.
Chief Financial Officer Regional logistics company
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