Joseph L. Schwartz

Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Loan Workout, Litigation, Corporate Trust Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution, with an emphasis in Bankruptcy Litigation and Corporate Restructuring.

Joseph L. Schwartz is Chair of the Firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Group. He has over 25 years of experience in commercial bankruptcy and state court insolvency matters, with a focus on corporate restructurings and reorganizations. Joe also has substantial experience in state and federal receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors, as well as out-of-court corporate restructurings, turnarounds, workouts and commercial litigation. He regularly represents a diverse array of clients, including debtors, banks, other secured lenders, indenture trustees, Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 trustees, creditors’ committees, trade creditors, third party purchasers, insurance companies and landlords, in bankruptcy and insolvency-related cases. Joe also regularly both prosecutes and defends avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent conveyance lawsuits.