Areas of Practice

• Representation of all major constituencies – debtors, creditors and investors – in complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings
• Acquisition and sale of distressed assets and claims (debtors and investors)
• Origination and restructuring of distressed loans (debtors and lenders)
• Strategic counseling on crisis management and restructuring alternatives (debtors), maximization of recovery (creditors) and management of distressed investment (investors)

Representative Engagements

• Drexel Burnham Lambert (counsel to debtors)
• Eastern Pulp & Paper (counsel to DIP lender and possible provider of exit financing)
• Hadson Industries (counsel to DIP lender)
• JWP (counsel to senior noteholders in restructuring and to unsecured creditors committee in chapter 11)
• Leslie Faye (counsel to debtors)
• Teligent (counsel to potential purchaser of substantially all of the debtors’ assets)
• Toscorp (CocoPazzo, Le Madri, Tuscan Square) (counsel to private debt fund as secured lender, DIP lender and plan funder)
• Wall Street Deli (investment advisory counsel)

Bar Admissions

• New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts

Legal Career

• Joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP in 2003 after associations with Weil Gotshal & Manges and Kirkland & Ellis
• Counsel, Marilyn Simon & Associates
• Law Clerk, Honorable Robert Ginsberg, U. S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois

Author/Speaker

• Contributing Editor, R. Ginsberg, Bankruptcy: Text, Statute and Rules (Prentice Hall)

Professional Activities & Associations

• Member, New York City Bar Association

Education

• J. D., University of Pennsylvania (Editor, Journal of International Business Law)
• Dipl., Accounting & Finance, London School of Economics (Merit Distinction)
• B. A., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)