Blake C. Alsbrook

Blake is a court-appointed fiduciary and counsel for prominent fiduciaries throughout the nation in high stakes matters, such as follows:

• Equity Receiverships:  Blake takes control over, operates, and sells all types of businesses and assets involved in civil litigation.
• Family Code Receiverships:  Blake is appointed as receiver in divorce proceedings to take control over assets and family businesses to enforce Court orders and end deceptive and fraudulent practices by the controlling spouse.
• Rents and Profits Receiverships:  Blake manages real property throughout California as a receiver appointed by lenders.
• Health and Safety Code Receiverships:  Blake is regularly appointed by cities and counties throughout California to remediate problem properties.
• Regulatory Receiverships:  Blake is appointed by federal and state agencies in a wide range of enforcement actions.
• Partition Actions:  Blake is regularly appointed as a partition referee to sell property owned by tenants in common throughout California.
• Successor Trustee Appointments:  Blake is regularly appointed as a successor trustee to replace acting trustees who are abusing their authority or failing to act pursuant to the terms of the trust.
• Provisional Directorships:  Where boards of directors are deadlocked, Blake is often brought in as a court-appointed or private provisional director to cast tiebreaking votes and serve the interests of various businesses.

In addition to advising fiduciaries on the impact of California and federal law on their practice, Blake has significant civil litigation experience defending and prosecuting actions on behalf of receivers and businesses, and regularly practices and argues before the California Court of Appeal and the United States Bankruptcy Court.

Currently appointed as Receiver in 20 matters pending before the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Civil, Probate, and Family Law Divisions; the Orange County Superior Court; the San Bernardino County Superior Court; the San Francisco Superior Court; and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Appointed as Receiver in Orange County Superior Court family law dispute over $250M real estate portfolio including hotels, restaurants, and beachside real estate in Laguna Beach. Settlement reached between parties within six months of appointment.

Appointed as rents and profits Receiver over $20M+ retail and multifamily real property in West Los Angeles involved in complicated multiparty foreclosure and voidable transfer suit.

Appointed as Receiver in numerous Health and Safety Code receiverships over troubled properties throughout the state. Completed remediation, removal of vagrants, and cleanup of nuisance and environmentally contaminated properties across California.

Appointed as Receiver to relocate tenants and assist in major environmental remediation of property directed by Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Board in South Los Angeles.

Appointed as Receiver in Los Angeles Superior Court business dispute over major $100M+ Downtown Los Angeles mixed use property with more than 100 tenants.

Appointed as Receiver over multiple, significant multi-family real properties in Northeast Los Angeles.

Appointed as Receiver by United States District Court over $100M jewel collection.

Achieved disputed $75M sale of Orange County business in satisfaction of judgment as lead counsel for post-judgment receiver.

Achieved contested receiver sales of multiple San Francisco apartment buildings and defended Superior Court's orders in Court of Appeal and United States Bankruptcy Court.

Represented receiver of a low-income housing developer that perpetrated $100M+ fraud against California cities and banks in Los Angeles Superior Court complex division and directed India litigation team.

Briefed and prevailed before California Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court, City of Sierra Madre v. SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. (2019) 32 Cal. App.5th 648, review denied (May 22, 2019), resulting in pivotal published opinion on receivership law.

Honors & Recognitions

Fifteen Ervin Cohen and Jessup Attorneys Named to 2024 Super Lawyers Lists

Los Angeles Business Journal Names Blake Alsbrook and Rusty Selmont as Leaders Thriving in Their 40’s

Partners Chris Manderson and Blake Alsbrook Named “Legal Visionaries” by the Los Angeles Times, Business of Law Magazine

Community & Professional

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Executive Committee Member, Remedies Section

California Receivers Forum, Board of Directors

Bet Tzedek New Leadership Council

ProVisors (Professional Association of Trusted Advisors) 

Beverly Hills Bar Association

Co- Editor, Receivership News 

Client Alerts

Publications

Speaking Engagements

Seminars

Loyola X Receivership Symposium 2023, Avoiding Wipeouts While Selling A Cannabis Business

Loyola IX Receivership Symposium 2022, In a World of Few Options, Receivership Becomes the Solution

For publications add “Problem Property Receiverships:  A Tool for Local Governments”  Receivership News Winter 2020