Douglas N. Candeub is a business lawyer with extensive experience in bankruptcy and insolvency field, business litigation, and commercial transactions. In bankruptcy matters, Mr. Candeub has represented corporate and individual debtors, creditors' committees, lenders, other creditors, and purchasers of assets. He has focused his practice in both Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Mr. Candeub's bankruptcy experience has run the gamut from prepetition asset protection and restructuring debt through cash collateral/DIP financing; negotiating and gaining approval of plans of reorganization; litigation of disputed claims and accounts receivable actions; employee retention and severance matters; the sale or purchase of real estate and other assets; and litigation involving preferences, fraudulent transfers, and contracts.
Mr. Candeub has experience handling transactional matters including loan documents, purchase and sale agreements, corporate start-ups, and other contracts. In the litigation arena, he has been the principal attorney for clients in numerous commercial and business tort matters, in both state and federal court. He has sucessfully argued appeals in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the numerous bankruptcy and other litigations in which Mr. Candeub has been involved, over 35 of the litigated matters in which he served as a principal attorney have resulted in court decisions published either in the official reporters or on Westlaw.
Mr. Candeub has had his writing published in the Bankruptcy Strategist and the National Law Journal; he has served as a speaker for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Bankruptcy Section of Philadelphia Bar Association; and he has co-chaired preparations for a seminar at an annual conference of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference.
Mr. Candeub received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1979, where he majored in history. He received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1982. There, he served for two years on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and also served on the faculty as a Legal Writing Instructor in his third year. After clerking for U.S. District Judge Robert M. Hill in the Northern District of Texas, Mr. Candeub was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1984. He is a member of the American Bar Association, including the Business Bankruptcy Committee in the Business Law Section of the ABA; the Delaware State Bar Association; the Philadelphia Bar Association; the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference; and the Bankruptcy Law Institute.