Joshua A. Lesser

Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow Listed in Texas Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2022-2025      Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch Banking and Finance Law, 2022-2026 Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization, 2022-2026 Commercial Litigation, 2022-2026 Successfully closed more than $100 million in term loans and lines of credit for real estate development projects. (2022) Achieved outright dismissal of claims for breach of contract involving the earn-out component of a stock-purchase agreement. (2022) Successfully helped a lender achieve outright dismissal of claims involving federal securities and privacy law and state-law breach of contract and other related state-law claims involving real-property financing. (2022) Successfully negotiated a full settlement of claims and increased ownership percentage for a high-net-worth-individual client through an out-of-court corporate reorganization of an established electric-vehicle company, securing favorable concessions valued at $2 million. (2021) Secured full recovery of collateral for creditor-client through dispositive motions practice in two separate cases involving federal maritime liens. (2021) Accomplished the consensual de-leveraging of $8.1 million from debtors’ balance sheet and $3.4 million in cure-claim forgiveness as debtors’ counsel in complex Chapter 11 restructuring of E&P proppant supplier. Also pursued claims in adversary proceedings on behalf of debtors to recover on state-law claims. (2019) Successfully negotiated full pre-confirmation recovery of claim, plus contract renewal after drafting and filing lift-stay motion as first chair creditor’s counsel in Chapter 11 restructuring. (2019) Successfully defended commercial clients by achieving outright dismissal on a contested motion for summary judgment. (2019) Successfully defended commercial clients by achieving outright dismissal on contested motions for summary judgment in three separate lawsuits. (2018) Successfully defended commercial clients by achieving outright dismissal on a contested motion for summary judgment. (2017)