Morton R Branzburg

Practice Areas

Mort is a founding partner and the former chair of the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department. Mort has extensive experience in numerous areas of the firm's practice, including corporate law, where he has represented companies as general counsel and in mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation where he regularly represents clients in state and federal courts, real estate matters and debtor-creditor proceedings. Mort represents debtors, troubled companies, secured and unsecured lenders, institutional creditors (some of which are Fortune 50 companies), creditors' committees, private equity funds, venture capital companies and other constituents in all aspects of bankruptcies, restructures and workouts. He appears regularly in bankruptcy courts in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

From 1995-2005, he was appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on the Court's Civil Procedure Rules Committee. He also is a lecturer on debtor-creditor matters.

Career

Admissions:

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Professional Memberships

Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, American Bankruptcy Institute

Member, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference

Personal

Temple University School of Law, J.D., cum laude

George Washington University, B.A.