Corporate and insolvency lawyer David Poitras joined BG Law as a partner in its commercial bankruptcy and insolvency and real estate practices.
Poitras is a corporate, bankruptcy and real estate attorney with more than 30 years of experience at private practice law firms and as in-house general counsel. Poitras joined BG Law from Wedgewood, a network of companies specializing in real estate and real estate loans, where he served as general counsel and corporate secretary. In this role, he managed contract negotiations, transactional and financing documents, and advised on a range of corporate issues, such as compliance, human resources, regulatory matters and corporate governance. Poitras also supervised a litigation portfolio of approximately 75 cases, leading a team of 10 attorneys and paralegals across two offices in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, covering a more than 20-state footprint.
Prior to his tenure with Wedgewood, Poitras was a partner at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, where he was a member of the firm’s national financial restructuring, bankruptcy, real estate and litigation practices. He began his legal career as a bankruptcy associate and then partner with Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz (now known as Danning, Gill, Israel and Krasnoff) in Los Angeles.
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