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Platinum Sponsors

Citrin Cooperman

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Gold Sponsors

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

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Porzio Bromberg & Newman P.C.

Trenk Isabel Siddiqi & Shahdanian PC

https://www.trenkisabel.law/

Trenk Isabel’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring practice covers in and out-of-court restructurings, state and federal insolvency proceedings and bankruptcy litigation.

The attorneys at Trenk Isabel have extensive experience representing debtors, creditors’ and other statutory committees, secured lenders, landlords, tenants and contract parties, equity holders, creditors, vendors, trustees, receivers and asset purchasers.
When representing debtors, Trenk Isabel attorneys work with company management and advisors from the inception of the case through its closing. Our attorneys have successfully resolved cases through restructuring, sales or other resolutions. We work diligently to ensure a successful resolution of all cases in an expeditious and cost-effective manner. Trenk Isabel attorneys have represented debtors in the following industries: construction and landscaping, food services, non-profit, transportation, and retail.
Similarly, when protecting creditors’ rights, Trenk Isabel attorneys work diligently for their clients to preserve value and expeditiously recover debt to maximize recoveries. Our attorneys have experience representing creditors in connection with preference and fraudulent transfer claims, commercial loan workouts, foreclosure and debt-instrument litigation, tax sale foreclosures, judgment enforcement, collateral recovery and other insolvency-related matters.
With respect to bankruptcy litigation, our dedicated team has extensive experience in all aspects of bankruptcy litigation in federal courts, including contested plan confirmations, sale motions, relief from the automatic stay, substantive consolidation and other litigation involving affiliates, and prosecution and defense of claims against directors and officers. Regardless of the matter, our team is well versed in all facets of litigation arising from restructuring matters.
Especially now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all parties must consider the day-to-day impacts on the business realities which will continue to affect everyone for many months, including, but not limited to:
The eviction backlog on landlords and tenants and the potential flood of evictions as courts begin to reopen;
Availability or lack thereof for credit and loan defaults; and
Slower generation of revenue due to limited capacities, social distancing and potential additional shutdowns.
Regardless of the nature, size or complexity of a case, the Trenk Isabel team works collaboratively to achieve our clients’ bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency needs.

Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga

https://walsh.law/

Walsh attorneys represent clients in a wide range of business restructurings, out-of-court workouts, liquidations, litigation, transactions and other situations involving distressed entities. Walsh represents all constituencies in restructuring and insolvency matters, including debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, lessors, creditors’ committees, purchasers and sellers of distressed assets, shareholders and other equity interest holders, trustees, board members and litigants.

Among other areas, our team has significant experience representing debtors and trustees in healthcare insolvencies including, most recently, in the chapter 11 bankruptcies of a $39 million senior and assisted living facility located in northern California; a Federally Qualified Health Center in New Jersey; and a nationwide chain of outpatient surgery centers based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Walsh attorneys also represented Bayonne Medical Center and the liquidating trustee throughout its bankruptcy proceeding and in connection with subsequent litigation.

Our attorneys possess a broad range of transactional and litigation experience in bankruptcy and restructuring matters, enabling them to deliver what matters most to our clients. Walsh’s transactional work includes experience representing lenders and domestic and foreign corporations in distressed and troubled situations in a wide variety of industries, from technology and pharmaceuticals to manufacturing, healthcare and retail.

When protecting creditors’ rights, preserving investment value, recovering debt and collecting on claims is critical. Our attorneys guide creditors through complex bankruptcies, out-of-court restructurings and workouts to help maximize their recoveries. In addition, our attorneys have the broad interdisciplinary knowledge needed to provide secured and unsecured creditors, official and ad hoc committees of creditors and equity holders, and asset purchasers with experienced counsel in matters concerning troubled companies with complex debt and equity issues.

When litigation is necessary, our dedicated team regularly represents clients in connection with bankruptcy litigation, contested matters and related disputes in state and federal court. These include contested Chapter 11 plan confirmations and sale motions, prosecution and defense of fraudulent transfer and preference claims, representing directors and officers following bankruptcy, commercial loan workouts, foreclosure and debt-instrument litigation, tax sale foreclosures, judgment enforcement, collateral recovery and other insolvency-related matters.

Walsh attorneys routinely collaborate among our firm’s practice groups to provide clients with access to a broad range of experience in other specialized areas in an inter-disciplinary approach to achieve complete guidance and solutions to our clients’ restructuring and insolvency needs.

Silver Sponsors

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

McCarter & English, LLP

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The Law Firm of Brian W. Hofmeister LLC

https://www.hofmeisterfirm.com/

Brian W. Hofmeister concentrates his practice in all areas of Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcies for both individual and corporate entities, Creditor Rights, commercial litigation at both the State and Federal levels, Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors on behalf of Assignees and Assignors, and representation of Chapter 7 and 11 trustees, creditors, landlords, creditor committees, lenders and receivers.

Mr. Hofmeister is a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and has been a presenter at the Mercer County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education and the Honorable William H. Gindin Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference.
In 1999, Mr. Hofmeister was appointed to serve for the Office of Attorney Ethics, State of New Jersey, Mercer County.

From 1990 through 1991, Mr. Hofmeister served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Stephen A. Stripp (Ret.), United States Bankruptcy Judge, District of New Jersey, where he had primary responsibility for case load preparation, research and drafting of opinions. While serving as a judicial law clerk, Mr. Hofmeister was directly involved in the research and writing of two published opinions limiting the scope of New Jersey's environmental statutes under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
Upon his completion of his judicial law clerkship with Judge Stripp, Mr. Hofmeister joined the firm of Hanoch Weisman as an associate in the firm's Litigation Department and had been practicing primarily in the area of creditor's rights and bankruptcy. Mr. Hofmeister was involved with all phases of counseling for and litigating on behalf of creditors with respect to troubled loans and credit relationships. His experience in the practice of creditor's rights enabled him to develop and carry out sophisticated litigation plans designed to maximize a creditor's recovery.
From 1994 through 1999, Mr. Hofmeister was an associate with the firm of Markowitz & Zindler where he concentrated his practice in the areas of debtor/creditor rights, bankruptcy, commercial litigation and representing Chapter 7 & 11 trustees, debtors, landlords, creditors' committees, lenders and receivers as well as representing clients in general litigation and transactional work.
In 2000, Mr. Hofmeister joined the firm of Teich Groh, where he became a partner in 2005, and continued to concentrate his practice in the areas of debtor/creditor rights, bankruptcy, commercial litigation as well as the representation of Chapter 7 & 11 trustees, landlords, creditors' committees, lenders and receivers, and representing clients in general litigation and transactional work.
At the end of 2013, the firm of Teich Groh dissolved and Mr. Hofmeister opened his own practice continuing to protect the interests of debtors in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcy matters. Mr. Hofmeister also represents Chapter 7 & 11 trustees, landlords, creditors' committees, lenders and receivers and handles all aspects of commercial litigation.

Bronze Sponsors

A.J. Willner Auctions

Meyner and Landis LLP

Norgaard O'Boyle

Norris McLaughlin

Scarinci Hollenbeck

https://scarincihollenbeck.com/

We are highly skilled in the enforcement of creditors’ rights and work with various financial institutions, corporations, insurance companies, leasing and finance companies and other organizations and business entities interested in preserving and enforcing their rights as creditors. Our attorneys routinely advise creditors regarding their rights and remedies in bankruptcy, under the Uniform Commercial Code, in foreclosures and in other types of recovery of real and personal property, secured and unsecured transactions, and other areas of commercial law.

In doing so, we bring together attorneys with broad and diverse business experience in order to help the firm’s clients achieve creative, expeditious, and cost-effective solutions. When appropriate, on matters requiring an interdisciplinary approach, attorneys often consult with other attorneys within Scarinci Hollenbeck’s comprehensive Corporate Transaction & Business, Commercial Real Estate, Crisis & Risk Management, Insurance & Liability, eDiscovery, Environmental and, in some instances, International Law & Trade practice groups. Amply resourced, this extensive business and corporate law expertise enables Scarinci Hollenbeck to regularly achieve more favorable results for its clients.

Scarinci Hollenbeck delivers comprehensive services to financially impacted entities, including financial institutions, corporations, insurance companies, leasing and finance companies, and other organizations and businesses involved in the recovery and potential or actual restructuring of problem business credits.

Our attorneys are accustomed to dealing with complex and sophisticated business matters and have many years of experience handling all financial issues surrounding bankruptcy and reorganization, out of court workouts, and state and federal court litigation over creditors’ and debtors’ rights. Our Group Chair, Joel R. Glucksman, has been named to the “New Jersey Super Lawyers” list continuously since 2007. The list, published by Super Lawyers Magazine, is an annual listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 60 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Where litigation is necessary to resolve debt and related problems, we offer responsive and effective service at all levels, including alternative dispute resolution, prejudgment remedies, and a renowned trial and appellate practice. Knowing that a strong litigation position often leads to a settlement of the dispute, our attorneys are practiced strategists who make every effort to set the table for the negotiation of a favorable and carefully documented workout of creditor-debtor disputes.

Sills Cummis & Gross

https://www.sillscummis.com/

The Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group has broad experience in all aspects of bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors’ rights matters, including complex litigation cases. This experience includes representing debtors, official and unofficial committees, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees and other parties in interest in out-of-court restructurings and in Chapter 11 reorganization cases. Our group has also structured “pre-negotiated” plans of reorganization to expedite the Chapter 11 process. We also have extensive experience in representing creditors in Uniform Commercial Code lien enforcement issues in state and federal courts. In addition, we provide advice and counsel to distressed public and private companies, their boards of directors, bank groups, receivers and other fiduciaries with regard to proposed financings, corporate transactions and real estate acquisitions.

While attempting to resolve matters through negotiation whenever possible, members of our Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Reorganization Team are routinely involved in litigating complex matters in bankruptcy courts, including valuation questions, fraudulent transfer and preference actions, DIP financing and use of cash collateral, adequate protection issues and contested confirmation hearings. The Team is also adept at state and federal court litigation involving the enforcement of creditors’ rights under the Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act and state receivership laws. Since restructuring issues are often inter-disciplinary, the Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group often draws assistance from the Firm’s other practice groups including, tax, banking, commercial litigation, real estate and corporate.

The members of our Team combine technical knowledge of the highly complex Bankruptcy Code, the Uniform Commercial Code, and other statutes dealing with creditors’ rights, practical knowledge of the “real world” bankruptcy process and, as importantly, a sound understanding of the business issues confronting our clients.

Windels Marx

WithumSmith + Brown, PC