Jeff serves as Barclay Damon's Business Services Practice Group leader and Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Practice Area co-chair. With over 30 years practicing commercial law, Jeff counsels clients on matters involving restructuring and bankruptcies, business rights, creditor remedies, and corporate obligations. He additionally negotiates and litigates financing facilities, stay-relief proceedings, Section 363 sales, reorganization and liquidation strategies, and contested confirmation hearings.
Jeff regularly appears in bankruptcy courts in the Western and Northern Districts of New York, and represents both plaintiffs and defendants in fraudulent transfer and preference proceedings. He has argued cases before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and has petitioned the US Supreme Court in support of and against review of lower-court decisions.
Jeff's clients include health care facilities, multistate department-store and supermarket chains, regional agricultural cooperatives, regional airlines, and telecommunications enterprises. He also represents secured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, manufacturing conglomerates, alternative-energy producers, real estate developments, and recreational enterprises.
Jeff has also served as a trustee and as special conflicts counsel in Chapter 11 cases.