Stephen M Packman

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy;

China Practice;

International Law

Career

Steve is an experienced bankruptcy attorney and commercial litigator. He has counseled many companies on all types of business issues for over 30 years and has represented clients nationally and internationally. Steve chairs Archer’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Litigation Group, serves as Chair of the firm’s International Law Group and Co-Chair of the China Practice Group.

His experience includes representing diverse clients in insolvency proceedings, complex “high stakes” commercial litigation cases and providing corporate advisory services. Recent engagements include representation of debtors (as lead and local counsel), creditor’s committees, trustees, foreign representatives and fiduciaries, plaintiff and defense litigants and companies in need of sophisticated counseling on complex business issues.

Steve is an inaugural Fellow of INSOL, the international association of restructuring professionals, having completed a rigorous program presented by INSOL and served on INSOL’s North American Membership Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee. He is a member of the Congress of Fellows of CILS (Centre for International Legal Studies) in Austria, as well as the Turnaround Management Association. Steve is also a member of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER).

Professional Memberships

Inaugural Fellow of INSOL (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals) and serve as a member of the audit and risk committee;

Member of National Association of Federal Equity Receivers;

Member, Congress of Fellows of the Center for International Legal Studies, Austria;

Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Business Reorganization Committee, Unsecured Trade Committee Member, Fraud;

Committee, Cross-Border Advisory Committee;

Member, American Board of Certification-Business Bankruptcy Law;

Member of the Turnaround Management Association;

Member of the New Jersey Bar Association;

Rutgers Pro Bono Bankruptcy Program;

Publications

“From Hibernation to Revitalization: Analysis of Insolvency COVID-19 Response Measures and their Wind-Dow,” INSOL International, the World Bank and the International Association of Insolvency Regulators (May 2022);

“INSOL International Glossary of Terms - USA,” INSOL International (July 2020);

“Pleading Fraud and Bad Acts in D&O Claims Litigation,” American Bankruptcy Institute (January 2019);

“General Data Protection Regulation and Intellectual Property: An Unprecedented Pairing,” Archer & Greiner P.C. (January 2019);

“ASEAN and Trends in the Development of Global Restructuring Regimes,” The Quarterly Journal of INSOL International (January 2019);

“Court’s Recognition of Hong Kong Liquidation Could Have Broad Implications for Foreign Bankruptcy Cases,” Archer Client Advisory (April 2018)

Expert in these Jurisdictions

New Jersey;

New York;

Pennsylvania;

Texas

Education