Shutts & Bowen LLP

Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy

Partner

Harris J. Koroglu is a partner in the Miami office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he is a member of the Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group.

Harris is involved in all aspects of creditor representation in bankruptcy litigation, reorganization and liquidation, as well is in Florida assignments for the benefit of creditors (ABC’s).  He represents creditors in Chapter 7, 11, 12, 13 and 15 bankruptcy cases, including secured lenders, commercial landlords in mega retail bankruptcy cases with a significant emphasis upon representing financial institutions and Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees.  Harris is routinely involved in litigating and negotiating modified treatment of clients’ claims in reorganization cases, negotiating the assumption, assignment, and rejection of leases, obtaining relief from the automatic stay and dismissing improvidently filed bankruptcy cases, prosecuting and defending fraudulent transfer and preference adversary proceedings, prosecuting adversary proceedings objecting to discharge and nondischargeability, and investigating/locating assets. He's also previously represented Chapter 11 trustees and federal court-appointed receivers and has managed multiple interrelated bankruptcy adversary proceedings and receivership ancillary proceedings.

The Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida Dade County Bar Association American Bar Association

University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 2006 University of Miami, B.S., cum laude, 2002