Bankruptcy, Business Reorganization Lawyers - Garden City, Long Island, New York

Jessica G. Berman

Jessica G. Berman is an associate in Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.’s Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization practice in the firm’s Garden City, Long Island, N.Y. office. Ms. Berman’s practice concentrates on debtor’s and creditor’s rights, bankruptcy reorganizations, work-outs, and business restructuring.

Notable experience includes:

Counsel to chapter 7 trustee of Tavern on the Green in connection with IP litigation and settlement, 363 sales, insider investigation, and preferential transfer adversary proceedings.
Counsel to Fortune 500 business services company in defense of adversary proceedings to collect preferential transfers.
Conflicts Counsel to Foreign Representative of Mexicana Airlines in connection with protection of Mexicana’s assets in the United States.
Counsel to chapter 7 trustee of estate of one of the largest Manhattan self-storage facilities in connection with wind-down of business, sale of assets, and insider and preferential transfer litigation.
Counsel to group of unsecured claims purchasers of Adelphia Communications Corporation’s debt in the Debtor’s adversary proceeding against them, concerning the entity liable on claims against the Debtor.
Counsel to Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns in connection with sub-prime chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of People’s Choice and MLN.
Special Bankruptcy Counsel to Enron Corporation and its affiliates in connection with Enron’s trading businesses.
Counsel to Northwest Airlines Corporation as Debtor in its chapter 11 cases.
Counsel to Omnicare, Inc., the nation’s leading pharmaceutical care provider to the elderly, in connection with its collection efforts for the failure to pay invoices for goods and services supplied by Omnicare pharmacies to long term care facilities.
Counsel to a variety of investment and financial institutions regarding the creation of various bankruptcy-remote structures in connection with commercial real estate transactions.

Ms. Berman has written numerous articles related to bankruptcy and restructuring, most recently for Labor Press, ABI Journal, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, and CWT Restructuring Review, and has moderated a panel discussion at the Bar Association of the City of New York.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Berman was an Associate in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. Before that, Ms. Berman worked as a Summer Associate for a boutique litigation firm based in Washington, D.C. and served as a Judicial Intern for Hon. Esther Morgenstern at the Queens County Supreme Court.