Rob’s practice focuses primarily on representation of corporate debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, indenture and securitization trustees, lessors, and other parties in interest in Chapter 11 bankruptcies and bankruptcy-related litigation. Rob is admitted to practice in the US District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York, the District of Connecticut, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the District of New Mexico and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits.

Rob serves as pro bono chair of the firm’s New York office and serves on the firmwide Pro Bono Leadership Committee. He has counseled numerous pro bono clients over the years including the Alliance for Positive Change f/k/a AIDS Service Center NYC, and United States Coast Guard service members.

Bar Admissions

Education
MBA, Fordham University Graduate School of Business, 2009

JD, Fordham University School of Law, 2008

BA, Boston College, cum laude, 2005

• Represents Cyrq Energy, Inc. and its affiliates as reorganized debtors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
• Represented Ciena Capital LLC, at one time the third largest SBA lender, and its affiliated debtors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Represented Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization, LLC, a privately owned sub-prime mortgage investor and servicer, and its affiliated debtors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Represented U.S. Energy Systems, Inc., a publicly traded energy company, in connection with its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Represents large medical device manufacturer involved in hospital and other health care bankruptcy proceedings throughout the country.
• Represents non-profit organization on a pro bono basis in chapter 11 bankruptcy case of a major New York hospital.
• Represents various non-debtor parties in bankruptcy litigation matters including avoidance actions brought under chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code.

• American Bankruptcy Institute, 2009-Present
• Federal Bar Council, 2009-Present
• New York State Bar Association, 2009-Present

• Leadership Team, Restructuring Deal of the Year for the Chapter 11 of O.W. Bunker Debtors, The International M&A Advisor Awards, 2017
• Recipient of 15th Annual M&A Advisor Award for The Restructuring Deal of the Year (over $100 million) for serving as lead counsel for The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of O.W. Bunker Holding North America Inc. in the District of Connecticut
• Recipient of the M&A Advisor’s 11th Annual Turnaround Award for The Energy Deal of the Year (over $500 million) for serving as lead counsel for The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of O.W. Bunker Holding North America Inc. in the District of Connecticut
• Recipient of the M&A Advisor’s 11th Annual Turnaround Award for The Restructuring Deal of the Year (over $500 million) for serving as lead counsel for The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of O.W. Bunker Holding North America Inc. in the District of Connecticut
• Selected as a “Rising Star,” New York Super Lawyers, 2015 through 2017

• Case Study: In re Almatis, Law360
• Claims for Goods Delivered on the Eve of a Bankruptcy Filing: What Every Business Lawyer Needs to Know, 14 NY Bus. Law J. 10 (Winter 2010)
• Silence as Deemed Consent to Voluntary Third-Party Releases in a Chapter 11 Plan, 30-Mar Am. Bankr. Inst. J. 50
• Emerging Privacy Issues in Bankruptcy, New York Law Journal
• Silence as Deemed Consent to Voluntary Third-Party Releases in a Chapter 11 Plan, ABI Journal