Jeffrey Rosenthal

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights (Chair)

Banking and Financial Services (Co-Chair)

Career

Jeff’s unique background of also having an MBA and CPA, as well as having worked as a controller for a wealthy individual provided him with the tools necessary to assist clients in the finance area in negotiation and documentation of loan transactions, workouts and bankruptcy cases throughout the United States and in many cross-border transactions. He is a Partner and Chair of the Firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights practice and the Banking and Financial Services practice. He has advised money center, regional and community banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, commercial finance companies, as well as borrowers, entrepreneurs and other interested parties in such transactions , workouts and bankruptcies. Jeff can help clients navigate difficult transactions to a successful closing as well as working with clients to maximize their recoveries from stressed and distressed companies and fraud situations. Jeff has represented healthcare lenders in various loan transactions and workouts.

Jeff has handled 363 sales for lenders, bidders and debtors as well as being involved in Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors, funding borrowers to conduct their own orderly liquidation, assisting lenders in funding Chapter 7 trustees to do orderly liquidations, Article 9 sales under the Uniform Commercial Code and purchasers in “loan to control” transactions. His creativity and vast knowledge of difficult situations has resulted in some unusual workouts that have had successful results for his clients.

Jeff has spent the bulk of his career with very different firms. At his first firm, he was the eleventh lawyer to join a regional NJ law firm that he helped grow to 65 lawyers before he left for a larger platform for his asset based practice. He spent 12 years as one of the founding partners of the NJ office of an international firm that was over 1,700 when he left. He practiced in New York for a few years and then returned to Mandelbaum Barrett, which had approximately 65 lawyers when he joined and is now over 140 lawyers and still growing.

He has regularly appeared on panels and written articles relating to commercial lending, workouts, bankruptcy and fraud in asset based loans. He has been an instructor for the Commercial Finance Association’s Advanced Legal Issues since its inception.

Since 2018, Jeff has been selected by his peers to The Best Lawyers in America* list which highlights top practitioners in various areas of practice across the United States. Jeff was named to the Super Lawyers list – New York and New Jersey from 2007 to Present.

Professional Memberships

-American College of Commercial Finance Attorney (currently a Fellow, previously served as a Regent)

-Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys

-Turnaround Management Association

-Commercial Finance Association

-Board member and officer of various charitable organizations, including past president of Jewish Family

-Services of the Delaware Valley and the Mercer County Chapter of the American Heart Association.

Education

Awards