Christopher Arisco

Mr. Arisco joined the firm in 2008 and since that time has engaged in an extensive pre-trial motion practice. In addition, he has an active motion and trial docket and typically makes 6 to 10 court appearances each week.

Mr. Arisco represents a national appliance manufacturer, Whirlpool Corporation, in pursuing collection matters all over the State of Texas through the perfection and enforcement of mechanic’s liens against real property. Mr. Arisco has also engages in federal litigation for multiple nationwide clients to enforce contracts, floorplan financing agreements, and recovery of real and personal property. By way of example, Mr. Arisco has engaged in federal litigation that resulted in settlement at mediation over a construction dispute of an army warehouse depot in Texarkana, obtained a federal judgment over an Oklahoma vehicle auction facility, and repossessed multiple aircraft through federal writs of replevin.

Juris Doctorate, University of Houston Law Center 

B.S., Mechanical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Texas A&M University

While at Texas A&M University, he worked as a project engineering co-op for Elk Corporation . He was also a member of the Pi Tau Sigma Honors Society. While in law school, he was a traveling member of the University of Houston mock trial team and he interned for the 333rd and 11th judicial district courts.

• Licensed, State of Texas
• United States District Court for the Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas

• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Tarrant County Young Lawyers’ Association

• Represented multiple creditors in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy with claims exceeding $1 million involving debtor 5D Cargo Express, Inc. subject to over $20 million in secured claims. Objected to initial proposed plan treatment, obtain favorable treatment, and pursue guarantors for deficiency amounts after plan default
• File and obtain expedited motion for relief from stay in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed in Delaware involving more than $9 Million in collateral consisting of leased vehicles and trailers
• Represented commercial lender in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case asserting secured claims of over $4.4 Million in an operating hotel located in Houston metro area, obtained stay relief, and engage receiver to sell going-concern hotel operation in satisfaction of secured claim
• Seek adequate protection payments, object to proposed Chapter 11 Plan, and obtain allowed secured claim of $2.5 Million at mediation in disputed accounts receivable of Chapter 11 debtor who was subject to over $17 Million in secured claims
• Represented secured creditor asserting over $4 Million in secured claims against commercial truck hauling operating in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, securing pre-confirmation adequate protection, objecting to plan, and negotiating favorable language in final confirmed plan
• Obtained relief from the automatic stay in a Chapter 11 case involving claims associated with oil and gas rigs and equipment of over $3 Million dollars and pursue state court replevin to secure possession of various oil and gas equipment
• Recovered Gulfstream G-ISVP private jet serving as collateral of $2 Million claim through federal replevin action and negotiate resolution of deficiency amount at mediation
• Represented secured creditor in Chapter 13 case holding secured claims of over $1.3 Million, filed objection to proposed Chapter 13 Plan, and obtain payoff of entire debt amount
• Negotiate assignment and assumption of multiple leases collectively valued at over $1.3 Million related to lease of electric golf carts to various golf courses around the United States in joint Chapter 11 cases
• Assert mechanic’s lien of over $730,000.00 in Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed by Hooters of America and obtain payment in full for client
• Obtained injunctive relief allowing oil and gas pipeline client to monitor and maintain pipeline per easement over multiple landowners’ objections
• Regularly represent lenders for commercial real estate projects and successfully make title claims on irregularities associated with closing
• Assist mortgage servicing clients with foreclosure of residential and commercial properties in default and, if necessary, pursue forcible detainers to obtain possession of residential real property
• Successfully argued on appeal the enforcement of a disputed forum selection clause related to vehicle financing.
• Regularly represent creditors, including banks, finance companies, and leasing companies, in Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases.
• File and obtain non-dischargeability judgments in bankruptcy court in commercial fraud cases involving vehicle floor plan financing.