Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC is pleased to announce that, for the 15th year in a row, the firm and its three senior attorneys have been recognized by Chambers USA in its 2025 directory as leaders in bankruptcy practice in New Jersey. Chambers USA is a leading legal directory, ranking the top lawyers and law
Jonathan Rabinowitz, Jay Lubetkin and Jeffrey Cooper have, once again, been selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of New Jersey Super Lawyers. According to Super Lawyers, only five percent of the lawyers in New Jersey are selected for inclusion on its lists. They can be reached at jrabinowitz@rltlawfirm.com, jlubetkin@rltlawfirm.com and jcooper@rltlawfirm.com, respectively.
In order to continue to provide our clients with the best possible service, Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC is pleased to welcome new associate, Justin Baumgartner. Justin focuses on corporate reorganization and bankruptcy law, including the representation of Chapter 11 debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, Chapter 7 trustees, and various parties in bankruptcy and commercial
Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC is pleased to announce that three of our attorneys have been included on the list of 2025 Best Lawyers in America®: Jonathan Rabinowitz – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation – Bankruptcy; Corporate Law Jay Lubetkin – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation – Bankruptcy; Real
In Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, L.P.,[1] the Supreme Court ruled that a Chapter 11 plan may not impose a non-consensual release of claims against non-debtor third parties pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1123(b)(6). The most significant result of the Court’s decision is the effect on negotiations in future Chapter 11 bankruptcies between creditors and affiliates
Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC is pleased to announce that, for the 14th year in a row, the firm and its three senior attorneys have been recognized by Chambers USA in its 2024 directory as leaders in bankruptcy practice in New Jersey. Chambers USA is a leading legal directory, ranking the top lawyers and law
A New Jersey Bankruptcy Court recently held that a government environmental agency violated the automatic stay by seeking to compel a debtor to remediate an environmental violation in lieu of enforcing a claim for monetary damages.[1] Stephen Samost (the “Debtor”) held an indirect ownership interest via an LLC and its subsidiary in a lake and
Henry M. Karwowski, a partner at Rabinowitz, Lubetkin & Tully, LLC, has been named “Adjunct of the Year” at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark. Also, separately, he was voted “Adjunct Professor of the Year” by the school’s students. Mr. Karwowski (second from left in photo) and other nominated professors from each of
By John J. Harmon, Esq. A Delaware bankruptcy court recently addressed[1] the circumstances under which a debtor or trustee asserting fraudulent transfer claims may obtain a preliminary injunction to freeze a transferee’s assets without violating the Supreme Court’s ruling in Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo S.A. v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc.[2] that federal courts lack authority
By John J. Harmon, Esq. In the Chapter 11 case filed by Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. (commonly known as Incora), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas recently addressed the viability of claims by noteholder creditors who had been excluded from participating in the debtor’s prepetition uptiering restructuring.[1] In the restructuring,
Subchapter 5 of Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code provides profitable small businesses that owe less than $7.5 million to their creditors with a streamlined process for paying down their mounting debt. Put more simply, Subchapter 5 makes reorganization more accessible to small businesses. Under Subchapter 5, a qualifying business, can force creditors to
Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC (“RLT”) counseled Custom Alloy Corporation and certain affiliates in the sale of substantially all of their assets pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code to an affiliate of Trident Maritime Systems, LLC. The transaction closed in June 2023. The sale process took place in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for
Once again, Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully’s is pleased to announce that our three senior attorneys — Jonathan I. Rabinowitz, Jay L. Lubetkin and Jeffrey A. Cooper – have been included in the list of 2023 The Best Lawyers in America®. All three have been on the list for more than a decade and all were recognized this year
Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully – and Its Three Senior Partners – Recognized by Chambers USA Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC is pleased to announce that, for the 12th year in a row, the firm and its three senior attorneys have been recognized by Chambers USA in its 2022 directory as leaders in bankruptcy practice in New