Jeffrey Cooper will be a presenter at the NJICLE 2025 Bankruptcy and Restructuring Forum, October 10, at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick and online. Merchant Cash Advances (MCAs) continue to generate significant litigation as state and federal courts wrestle with whether these arrangements are true sales of account receivables or disguised high-interest
Rabinowitz Lubetkin & Tully, LLC is pleased to announce that three of our attorneys have been included on the list of 2026 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
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 S. 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
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
In 2019, Congress enacted the Small Business Reorganization Act (or the SBRA), which provides for a new subchapter v in chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. As its name suggests, the Act applies to small business debtors. What is a “small business debtor”? Generally speaking, a small business debtor would mean generally a person –
“We are honored to be once again well represented in the Super Lawyers,” said Rabinowitz, Lubetkin & Tully, LLC Managing Partner Jay L. Lubetkin. ” We are very proud of our highly skilled attorneys who have been consistently recognized as among the top bankruptcy practitioners in New Jersey.” Super Lawyers each year rates attorneys from
RLT is pleased to announce that the 2020 edition of Chambers USA, which lists America’s Leading Lawyers For Business, and is a highly-respected legal directory based on in-depth interviews in- counsel and private practice attorneys, ranked Jonathan I. Rabinowitz (Band 2), Jay L. Lubetkin (Band 3), and Jeffrey A. Cooper (Band 4) as “Notable Practitioners” in
During this difficult time, our thoughts are for the health and safety of our employees, their families, friends, and our clients. Not only has the coronavirus impacted our health and safety, it has also adversely impacted our economy. Particularly hard hit are the hospitality and retail sectors which are facing the worst crisis since the
The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors selected RLT, led by Jeffrey A. Cooper, as its counsel in the Chapter 11 cases filed by Marine Environmental Remediation Group LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, MER Group Puerto Rico LLC (collectively, “Marine”), case nos. 19-18994 and 19-18995 (VFP). Marine, headquartered in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, is
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