When Hawaiian real estate developer Aina Lea Inc. filed for bankruptcy late last month, it owed Greenberg Traurig, Nixon Peabody and several other law firms nearly $900,000.

And Aina Lea, the company behind an unfinished residential development on Hawaii’s big island worth a reported $1 billion, is now looking to hire a bevy of legal advisers, including Greenberg Traurig and Honolulu’s Choi & Ito, to guide it through a Chapter 11 case.