Mr. Smith heads the firm's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights and Litigation Groups, and has extensive experience in civil litigation of all kinds, as well as complex Chapter 11 reorganizations, assignments for the benefit of creditors, insolvency related litigation and out-of-court workouts. He represents plaintiffs, defendants, debtors-in-possession, creditors' committees, liquidators, secured and unsecured creditors, and entities acquiring assets from debtors in bankruptcy.
Mr. Smith's recent matters include:
- Representation of the debtor
in the Chapter 11 reorganizations of Micron Separations, Inc., Auburn
International, Inc. and Lewis J. Busconi et al.
- Representation of the Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 reorganizations of Gitto Global Corporation, John Harvard Brew House, L.L.C., KomTek, Inc., ServiSense.com, Inc., TalkPoint Communications, Inc. and Franklin Environmental Services, Inc.
Memberships
- Turnaround Management Association
- Boston Bar Association (Bankruptcy Section, Practice and Procedure Committee)
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Association for Corporate Growth
- New York Institute of Credit
Lecturer
- American Bankruptcy Institute, 2001 Northeast Conference, Non-Bankruptcy Alternatives
Education
- Cornell Law School (J.D. 1969); Associate Editor, Cornell Law Review, Phi Kappa Phi, Order of the Coif and Charles Evans Hughes Fellow
- Cornell University (A.B.
1966)
History
- Law Clerk to Hon. M. Joseph Blumenfeld, Chief U.S. District Judge, Hartford, Connecticut (1969-1970)
- Assistant United States Attorney, Civil and Criminal Divisions, Chief Environmental Litigation Section, Eastern District of New York (1970-1974)
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and the following federal courts: United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second and Fourth Circuits; United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut and the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York
Other
- Named as a Super Lawyer in the Massachusetts bankruptcy and workout community for three years in a row (2004 - 2006)
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