Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  MacDonald + MacDonald is a business law boutique in Dallas, Texas focused on insolvency and commercial litigation. We combine strategic thinking, creative solutions, and aggressive client service to resolve client business problems. Our business planning and dispute resolution practice covers the full business lifespan from cradle to grave and sometimes to a fresh start for a business or its assets.
• Business Transactions
  Mark MacDonald, Sr. is a nationally and internationally recognized insolvency expert with 40 years of experience in bankruptcy and commercial litigation and in structuring business transactions, documentation, and legal opinions in complex finance transactions.
• Intellectual Property
  Dan is active in bankruptcy appellate work, and is admitted to practice in the 5th, 6th, and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals. He also has substantial experience in the interplay between the bankruptcy code and intellectual property law, copyright infringement, patent infringement and litigation arising from patent cross-licensing disputes.
• Antitrust

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  "Dealing With the FDIC, The FSLIC, And Other Financial Regulatory Agencies," presented at the University of Houston Law Center Advanced Real Estate Law Course, November 1988 and October 1989
• Real Estate Transactions
  Daniel Artz, a member of Mensa who had the highest score in the State on the Texas Bar Exam in November 1982, brings substantial intellectual capacity and more than twenty years of bankruptcy, state and federal court litigation and real estate transaction experience to the firm. Dan practices primarily in bankruptcy reorganization, creditor’s rights, and commercial litigation, but recently handled the entity formation, acquisition, construction and financing of two freestanding radiation oncology centers for one of our physician clients. His work in bankruptcy reorganization includes representation of debtors, committees and secured creditors. He has tried avoidance actions, both prosecuting claims on behalf of the estate and defending claims on behalf of creditors, and successfully defended those judgments on appeal.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  First, any bankruptcy practitioner will regularly state that it is easier to reach a result with another skilled bankruptcy practitioner than it is with an outsider or one who is inept. The persistency of connection between two strong people will usually lead to a more rapid and easy decision than between two people which do not have a prior connected relationship. The top bankruptcy lawyers regularly spend substantial amounts of time connecting with other attorneys, enabling them to increase their familiarity with other attorneys and establish a potential hierarchy among such attorneys in the event that a connection is needed in a future case. Common activities where the connections are made include State and local Bar Association participation, speaking and writing in continuing legal education programs, membership in the National Bankruptcy Conference, membership and participation in the American Bankruptcy Institute, participation in the American Bar Association Business Bankruptcy Committee or Commercial Financial Services Committee, and attendance at the annual meetings at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.
• Foreclosure
  The client wished to enforce provisions of the cross licenses to prevent disclosure of related confidential proprietary research information in the event of financial problems of the securitizing licensor but did not want to block this financing by its research associate. The client did not want a purchaser at foreclosure by the credit enhancement bank to obtain access to the confidential data.