Bankruptcy/Corporate Restructuring

Our Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Group is regularly retained in all types of corporate bankruptcy matters, including in- and out-of-court restructuring transactions, wind-downs, and state court insolvency proceedings, as well as to handle the entire spectrum of claims and avoidance litigation for plaintiffs and defendants, including preferences and fraudulent transfer actions, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and recharacterization/subordination claims.

Group Attorneys

Ilana Volkov

Partner & Practice Group Leader

David C. McGrail

Managing Partner

Menachem M. Bensinger

Managing Partner

Kieran O'Connell

Senior Associate

Pearl Shah

Senior Associate

Veronique Urban

Senior Associate

Services

Formulating and implementing out-of-court restructurings.
Winding down companies.
Filing for bankruptcy protection under chapter 7 or 11 and developing and effectuating exit strategies.
Purchasing assets (including leases and claims).
Prosecuting and defending commercial foreclosures.
Addressing cryptocurrency issues.

Providing non-consolidation opinions.
Prosecuting and defending bankruptcy litigation.
Addressing intellectual property issues.
Analyzing small business issues.
Representing pre-and post-bankruptcy lenders and unsecured creditors.
Advising boards of directors, officers, management, and equity holders.

Select Client Representations

General bankruptcy counsel to debtors HydroGen, LLC, Terra Nostra Resources Corp., PubliCARD, Inc., R. Esmerian, Inc., MM Bowery Rest. Corp., Far Rockaway Nursing Home, Southampton Yen Restaurant Group, LLC, First Step Trademarks, LLC, and Genco Importing Inc. d/b/a Manitoba’s. (Genco was majority-owned by Steven Van Zandt. The Bankruptcy Judge at the Genco plan confirmation hearing noted that “[T]his case has been extremely well handled from [the] beginning to this point; and the work product has been top-notch in all respects.”)
Counsel to Metro New York in the sale of its business to Schneps Media.
Counsel to Lending Club in various New York commercial foreclosure actions.
Counsel to the involuntary petitioners and Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in The Adoni Group, Inc.
Counsel to various hedge funds and other defendants in the Tribune and Lyondell clawback litigations.
Counsel to the purchaser of a $30 million revenue dairy business out of bankruptcy.
Counsel to former Italian senator and film producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori, a stakeholder in a large Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
Counsel to customers in MF Global Inc. and to creditors on the official committees of unsecured creditors in RDA Holding Co. (Reader's Digest), Hostess Brands, Inc., Tom Jones, Inc., Chemtura Corporation, Mark IV Industries, Inc., and The Wilkes Bashford Company.
Counsel to Bank of America, as indenture trustee, in its successful litigation to recover against the State of Pennsylvania on a reimbursement claim under Bankruptcy Code section 363.
Counsel to various hedge funds that purchase bankruptcy claims.
Counsel to the DIP lender in the Peninsula Hospital Center bankruptcy case.
Counsel to the assignee in Mechanology, Inc.’s assignment for the benefit of creditors.