Areas of Practice

• All types of creditor constituencies in workouts and chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
• Investment funds and asset purchasers in distressed and bankruptcy situations
• Creditors’ committees, chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustees, landlords and tenants
• Cross-border insolvency

Represent

• Weirton Steel Corporation (represent bondholders)
• Family Golf Centers, Inc. et. al. (represent chapter 11 debtor)
• Laidlaw, Inc. (represent bondholders)
• Troll Communications Inc.; LTV Networks, Inc. (represent official committee of unsecured creditors)
• Exide Technologies, et. al.; General Media Inc. (represent indenture trustee)
• Asia Global Crossing, Ltd. (represent trustee)

Bar Admissions

• New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Career

• Joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP in 2000
• Associate and partnership positions with Winick & Rich, P.C., New York City (now dissolved)
• Law Clerk, Honorable Manuel J. Price, U. S. Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of New York

Author/Speaker

• Speaker, "Looking to Buy Assets at a Bargain? Try Bankruptcy Court," Association of Corporate Counsel, Seminar, January 27, 2004
• Author, "Supreme Court Says Market Test is Key to ‘New Value’ Contribution," 2000, Bankruptcy Yearbook Almanac
• Author, "United States Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearings on UNCITRAL Cross-Border Insolvency Proposal," INSOL International World, March 1998
• Author, "Bankruptcy Court Power to Adjudicate Contract Disputes," American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1994
• Author, "Bankruptcy in China," American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 5, June 1994
• Panelist, Colloquium on International Insolvency Law, Groupe De Reflexion Sur L'Insolvabilite, Paris, France, February 1999
• Witness, Testified before Senate subcommittee on UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvencies, December 4, 1997
• Lecturer, ABA and Practicing Law Institute panels on bankruptcy and creditors' rights issues
• Lecturer, In-house seminars for various lending institutions
  

Professional Activities & Associations

• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member, Federal Bar Council
• Member, INSOL International
• Member, Turnaround Managers Association
• Panel of Mediators, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, S.D.N.Y.

Education

• J. D., Brooklyn Law School (1979), recipient of Cornelius W. Wickersham Prize
• B. A., English Literature, New York University (1976)