Joel H. Levitin

PARTNER

Joel H. Levitin is a member of the Firm’s bankruptcy & restructuring practice. Joel advises troubled or distressed companies, acquirers of such companies, and primary constituencies such as trustees, boards of directors, creditors, bondholders, committees and equity sponsors in significant corporate restructuring and reorganization matters, both in and out of court.

Joel has extensive experience negotiating and litigating issues arising in distressed situations, including the confirmation of plans of reorganization, DIP financing arrangements and the use of cash collateral, the appointment of examiners and trustees, lender liability and equitable subordination matters, purchases and sales of the assets of distressed companies, and preferential transfers and fraudulent conveyances. He has also served as an arbitrator in various cases.

Joel is "recommended" by Global Counsel 3000 and Practical Law Company for restructuring and insolvency in New York, and was selected as one of Turnarounds & Workouts Magazine's eight "Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers 40 and Under" in 2001. Joel is a prolific author and frequent speaker on bankruptcy and restructuring topics such as DIP financing, intellectual property issues in bankruptcy, and investing in distressed assets and companies.

Joel is active in several professional organizations, including the American Bankruptcy Institute, where he served on the board of directors and as a committee chair for several years. He served as co-chair of the IP/Bankruptcy Committee of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and was a member of the Commercial Law League of America and the Turnaround Management Association. He also previously served as a member of the board of directors of the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, a prominent administrator of certification programs for insolvency attorneys, and as a member of the prestigious Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and its working Subcommittee on Professional Disinterestedness.

From 1993 through 1996, Joel was an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law, where he taught a course on corporate reorganization in Chapter 11.