Boston & Braintree, Massachusetts 617-367-2199 [email protected]

Commercial collections · Breach of contract · Creditor bankruptcy

Call us when you really want your money.

When it’s time to take legal action to settle your client’s commercial debt, call Cellai Law. Innovative Boston debt collection lawyers, serving businesses since 1992.

Carlo Cellai, Esq., principal of Cellai Law
Carlo Cellai, Esq.
Richard Thomas Davies, Esq.
Richard Thomas Davies, Esq.
Since 1992Founded in Boston
30+ yearsCommercial collections
2 officesBoston & Braintree
MA · NY · FederalCourts we practice in

Welcome to Cellai Law

Led by Carlo Cellai, Esq., our lawyers bring extensive experience and an exceptional success rate to collection and business litigation.

Our work includes business-to-business litigation, commercial and individual debt collection, contract enforcement, and bankruptcy litigation. Cellai Law represents individuals and small businesses as well as large corporations, from limited liability companies to multi-national corporations, and has pursued and resolved cases for Massachusetts-based, national and international clients.

We search for debtors’ assets before beginning every case, so we know how to maximize leverage and your recovery. Our tools include bank account attachments, real estate attachments, reach and apply, negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation, through levies, sale of real estate, execution of judgments and wage garnishment.

Cellai Law is a fully staffed firm of attorneys and paralegals, nationally recognized for its commercial collections law, contract litigation and bankruptcy practice. Since 1992 we have given each client individualized attention.

Practice areas

MatterWhat we doStatus

Commercial Debt Collection

Over thirty years’ experience in collection litigation and collection services for individual clients and large and small corporations. We have recovered on out-of-state and international judgments, accounts receivable, construction contracts and promissory notes.

Recovered

Commercial Collections

Our knowledge of the law, business and the court system lets us efficiently, effectively and aggressively recover your money, using bank account liens and garnishments, real estate liens, mechanics liens and wage garnishments.

Recovered

Boston Debt Collection Attorney

We use professional resources and search methods to locate assets, relationships and very often hidden assets.

Recovered

Creditors in Bankruptcy

We serve secured and unsecured creditors with complaints to determine dischargeability of debts, debtor examinations and Motions for Relief from the Bankruptcy Stay.

Recovered

Breach of Contract

Over thirty years prosecuting and defending breach of contract actions in state and federal courts, arbitral tribunals and reference proceedings, including goods sold and delivered, consulting agreements and complex construction matters.

Recovered

Business and Real Estate

Boston’s trusted providers of legal services relating to collection of brokerage commissions, breach of leases and construction disputes.

Recovered

Attachments & injunctions

Ex parte bank attachments, real estate attachments, personal property attachments, keeper attachments, reach and apply injunctions, Rule 65 injunctions, and fraudulent conveyance claims.

Mechanics liens

Liens for sub-contractors, direct owners and general contractors, with guidance on credit applications and contracts, and help collecting on bad checks.

Courts

State District and Superior Court, Federal District Court in Massachusetts and New York, Federal Court of Claims and Bankruptcy Court, in jury trials, bench trials and arbitration.

“We search for assets before we begin every case, so we know where your leverage is.”

Attorneys

Carlo Cellai, Esq.

Principal

Has operated his own practice since graduating from New England School of Law in 1991, and drew frequent mentions in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for aggressive, innovative theories and solutions. He has litigated, tried, collected, negotiated and resolved contract disputes from simple goods sold and delivered to complex breach of distribution agreements, commercial collections, bankruptcy and workouts, and has lectured at MCLE, the South Shore CPA Society and the Massachusetts Minority Contractors Association.

  • Boston University, BA and MA Economics, 1988
  • New England School of Law, JD, 1991
  • Admitted: Massachusetts (1991), New York (1992), U.S. District Courts of Massachusetts, Southern and Northern New York, U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2006)
  • Associate Member, Northeast Retail Lumber Association

Richard Thomas Davies, Esq.

Trial attorney

Has practiced law for over 15 years through all stages of civil litigation, representing private business clients and individuals in business-to-business disputes, real estate and land disputes, elder abuse and other civil matters. His results include recovering $4 million in a case of attempted abuse of elderly client assets. He has practiced in the Superior, District and Probate Courts of Massachusetts and has served as guardian ad litem and conservator.

  • University of New South Wales, BA Political Science/History, 1989
  • New England Law | Boston, JD, 2002
  • Admitted: Massachusetts Bar (2003) and Federal District Court of Massachusetts

Collections law legal news

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When Massachusetts businesses face contract disputes, commercial impracticability is occasionally raised by the opposing party as a defense to avoid contractual obligations.

Contact us today for a legal consultation

Whether it is your first time pursuing debt collection, a breach of contract matter, or your company needs sophisticated counsel, Cellai Law Offices, P.C. will work for you.

Boston office

268 Summer Street, Lower Level
Boston, MA 02210
617-367-2199

Braintree office

150 Grossman Drive, Suite 201
Braintree, MA 02184
617-367-2199

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