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Description: With the spiraling rate of challenge and even failure for restaurants and retail establishments many lawyers are experiencing their first Encounters since law school with the concept of force majeure. Cullen and Dykman’s team of insolvency lawyers are prepared to explain in plain English.
Presenter Bios
Michael Kwiatkowski is Of Counsel in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights practice group, advising and representing a wide variety of debtors and creditors in all aspects of bankruptcy, including corporate reorganization, bankruptcy-related litigation, and creditors’ rights. He also has extensive experience in representing financial institutions in commercial litigation matters in both state and federal courts.
Michael began his legal career before starting law school. After graduation from McGill University in Montreal, he worked as a legal assistant for a bankruptcy and commercial litigation law firm. While a law student at Brooklyn Law School, Michael served as an intern to the Honorable Jerome Feller of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York and Judge Bernard J. Fried of the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court, and he interned with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Michael also served as an Executive Board member of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and as a Barry L. Zaretsky Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Center fellow while in law school.
Prior to joining the firm, Michael was an associate at several prominent New York law firms, concentrating his practice on bankruptcy law, mortgage foreclosures, and commercial litigation.
Michelle McMahon is a partner in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights department. She focuses her practice on representing clients in complex restructurings and Chapter 7, 11, and 15 bankruptcies and related litigation, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) receiverships. Her clients include secured and unsecured lenders, special servicers of securitized commercial mortgages, indenture trustees, creditors’ committees, patient care ombudsman, unsecured creditors, landlords, investors, and debtors.
Michelle works with her clients to create strategies tailored to meet their business needs and objectives. Her experience includes preparing and prosecuting pleadings and motions, negotiating out-of-court settlements and appearing at adversarial hearings related to first-day motions, DIP financings, automatic stays, asset sales, disclosure statements, reorganization plans, assumptions and assignments of leases and contracts, and objections to claims. She has also defended numerous clients in avoidance actions, and she advises buyers in acquisitions of distressed assets and other transactions involving troubled companies.
Matthew G. Roseman heads the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights department. He represents debtors, secured creditors, landlords and acquirers of assets in bankruptcy proceedings throughout the United States. Over his years of practice, Matthew has advised debtors and creditors in corporate reorganizations involving both public corporations and privately held businesses, and he has successfully argued a case of the first impression before the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit involving an issue of the bankruptcy procedure. Matthew also has particular experience representing construction companies and contractors in bankruptcy proceedings and workouts, and he regularly provides True Sale, Safe Harbor and Non-Consolidation opinion letters in complex commercial transactions.
Areas of Concentration:
Secured Lenders in Bankruptcy proceedings
Restructuring/Workout of commercial loans
Select Debtor representations in Chapter 11 proceedings
Acquisition of assets from Bankruptcy estates
Corporate Reorganizations
Commercial Loan
Bankruptcy Litigation
Michael H. Traison is a partner in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights department. He focuses his practice in the areas of restructuring and insolvency, commercial law, and international law. Michael has represented corporate clients in commercial matters for more than 35 years, and he is a widely-recognized leader in helping businesses resolve complex legal issues.
Michael represents businesses in matters ranging from litigation to insolvency, creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 reorganizations and out-of-court workouts, and other clients with interests throughout the world. In his international law practice, Michael maintains a special focus on Israel, Poland and Eastern Europe, and he has appeared before courts throughout the United States, Poland and Israel.
 | | Practice Areas: | | Bankruptcy & Creditors Rights, Real Estate Law | | | Online Media Type: | | Audio | | | Production Date: | | 12/01/2020 4:00 PM EST | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 0 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | Live | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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