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Our Court Appointed San Diego Business Receivers Are Here to Help

Our San Diego business receivers have decades of experience administering complex business receiverships across a wide range of industries. These matters may involve manufacturing, distribution, retail sales, restaurants, gas station and convenience store operations, and medical-related businesses, including assisted living and interim care facilities. Stephen Donell is a licensed Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) administrator through the California Department of Social Services, bringing specialized expertise to healthcare-related business receiverships.

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Here’s how our San Diego Business Receivers can help you:

A business receivership may arise under a variety of circumstances. This often includes loan defaults where a lender seeks the appointment of a receiver to collect receivables, take possession of inventory, or assume control of the entire business. A receiver may also be appointed in connection with judgment enforcement actions requiring court-supervised operation or liquidation of a business.

  • Manufacturing

    Manufacturing businesses subject to city, state, and federal oversight require specialized skills to ensure proper regulatory compliance, operational continuity, and asset preservation during receivership.

  • Distirubution

    FedReceiver has administered receiverships involving office and industrial properties with challenging lease-up conditions, deferred maintenance issues, and tenant defaults requiring active management.

  • Real Estate Partnerships

    Our team has managed properties ranging from single-tenant retail locations to large, anchored neighborhood shopping centers. Receivership responsibilities often include lease-up efforts, CAM reconciliations, deferred maintenance, marketing initiatives, and ADA and health and safety compliance.

  • Retail Sales

    Retail and industrial properties, including stand-alone facilities and multi-building complexes, may require oversight involving tenant improvements, environmental remediation, CAM reconciliation, and deferred maintenance management.

  • Medical/Health Care

    FedReceiver has been appointed as receiver over medical office buildings and healthcare-related businesses that present unique challenges, including heightened maintenance standards, specialized common area requirements, parking and access considerations, and strict code compliance.

  • Financial Services

    Our team has experience administering receiverships involving hospitality-related assets ranging from small motels to luxury resort properties, including nationally branded locations.

  • Legal

    Mobile home communities require specialized receivership experience due to unique regulatory and code compliance requirements. FedReceiver has been appointed as receiver over mobile home communities throughout California.

  • Development

    Stephen Donell has been appointed as receiver over multiple equestrian properties, including training and riding facilities serving the equestrian community.

  • Advertising/Marketing

    Our team has managed self-storage properties across multiple states. These properties present unique challenges related to security, access controls, and safety compliance.

  • Gas Station/Car Wash

    FedReceiver, Inc. has assembled a team of professionals experienced in managing, operating, and selling gas station, car wash, and convenience store properties, including receiverships involving nationally branded operators.

When is a San Diego Business Receiver needed?

A San Diego business receiver may be appointed solely to take possession of receivables or inventory, or may be appointed as an equity receiver to assume control of the entire business. In equity receiverships, the receiver operates all aspects of the business, including tax filings, customer and employee relations, creditor communications, litigation management, and the distribution of proceeds to secured creditors in accordance with statutory priorities.

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Clients Who Trusted Us

As an attorney representing secured creditors who provide C&I loans, I have needed to seek the appointment of a receiver due to loan defaults. Stephen Donell, Receiver, is a take-charge, dependable and results-oriented professional with whom we have a long-standing history. We highly recommend his services as receiver to other lenders and creditors.

Attorney, San Francisco CA
San Francisco, CA

As lenders’ counsel, our firm has worked with FedReceiver, Inc. for many years in connection with real property defaults and several cases involving the appointment of a Receiver. Mr. Donell and his team have distinguished themselves as knowledgeable and effective court appointed receivers.

Attorney, Los Angeles CA
Beverly Hills, CA

Our firm has had multiple opportunities to work with the professionals at FedReceiver and the results have been extremely positive in all of our partition referee and receivership matters.

Attorney, Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles, CA

I have worked with Stephen Donell in multiple cases where he was appointed as receiver over assets secured by loans originated from our lending institution. Mr. Donell’s expertise and experience have been invaluable in the protection of the bank’s loan security.

Lender, Orange County CA
Orange County, CA

Mr. Donell has served as court-appointed Receiver in multiple matters in connection with partnership litigation filed by our firm. Mr. Donell has demonstrated his knowledge regarding asset preservation, forensic investigations, and fiduciary duty violations, and his actions have resulted in positive results for my clients’ interests.

Attorney, Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles, CA

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Locations Served

With cases involving assets throughout the country and internationally, FedReceiver, Inc. provides nation-wide receivership services including international asset recovery.

Alameda, Butte, County of San Francisco, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Marin, Orange County, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernadino, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Ventura County and the California District Court.

Las Vegas, Carson City, Clark, Douglas, Elko and Washoe County

Phoenix, Gila, Maricopa, Mohave and Pima County

States with cases/assets include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

Who needs a court-appointed San Diego Business Receiver?

If you are a lender, attorney, investor, government agency or city attorney, FedReceiver,Inc. provides receivership services to address your unique circumstances.

Lender

Defaulted real estate /business loans, collateral and inventory problems, contaminated property may all require the services of a receiver.

Attorney

Corporate, partnership, creditor rights, bankruptcy and transactional attorneys regularly seek out the services of court-appointed receivers.

Defrauded Investor/Consumer

If you are a defrauded investor/consumer, various government agencies may be able to assist with investigating alleged fraud.

Government Agency

State/federal governmental agencies appoint receivers in connection with criminal restitution, health & safety code violation, investor and consumer fraud as well as other regulatory matters requiring the appointment of a receiver.

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How we work together

From identifying problems to implementing solutions, our experienced team utilizes its decades of experience, expertise, training and resources to successfully administer its receiver, partition, provisional directorship, dissolution manager and distribution agent cases.

Reach out

Please reach out via our contact page or call us at our Los Angeles corporate office. Our state and federal cases involve assets throughout the county.

Set an Appointment

An initial call will allow for an initial assessment of the proposed case.

Sample Pleadings/Orders

With approximately 800 cases, FedReceiver has a vast library of exemplars including motions seeking appointment of receiver, orders appointing receiver and memorandum of points & authorities.

References

We offer excellent references with local and national law firms, accounting firms and clients.

Court Experience

Given our decades of experience and hundreds of cases, we have appeared in state/federal court and have excellent relationships with numerous courts/judges.

Get to know our expert court receivers in San Diego

A family business, founded by James Donell, we are leaders in the receivership industry.

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With prior experience as president of the California Receivers Forum (CRF) Los Angeles/Orange County Chapter, President of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER), panel members at receiver conferences, we are leaders in our industry.

Offices

Northern California

Sacramento, CA

Los Angeles

Wilshire Bundy Plaza 12121 Wilshire Boulevard, Subsuit 1120
Phone: 310.207.8481

Stephen J. Donell Los Angeles

President of FedReceiver, Inc., Jalmar Properties, Inc. and Donell Expert Services, Inc.

James H. Donell Los Angeles

Founder and CEO of FedReceiver, Inc. and Jalmar Properties, Inc.

Todd D. Donell Los Angeles

Executive Vice President of FedReceiver, Inc. and Jalmar Properties, Inc.

Sarah R. Bates Los Angeles

Vice President of FedReceiver, Inc. and Jalmar Properties, Inc.

Review the chapter authored by Mr. Donell

Reviving the financially distressed business book by written by Receiver Stephen Donell, CCIM, CPM

Reviving the Financially Distressed Business

Reviving The Financially Distressed Business is the essential guide for business owners and corporate leaders whose companies are under—or anticipating—financial difficulties. See Chapter 11, Receiverships, written by Court Receiver Stephen Donell, CCIM, CPM

Steve Donell’s contribution to the book “Reviving a Financially Distressed Business” reflects not only his expertise as a receiver, but his sound judgment on how receivership can be used to effectively advance a financially troubled business.” 

– Brian Davidoff, Esq. Author and Editor

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