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Janice B. Grubin Partner

Ms. Grubin is a member of the Firm's Corporate Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Group with experience in a wide range of insolvency litigation and transactional matters in a variety of jurisdictions. Her practice focuses on the representation of debtors, creditors, trustees and official and unofficial committees in voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy proceedings and corporate restructurings. In connection with such representations, Ms. Grubin has negotiated and drafted petitions, plans and disclosure statements, workout agreements, complaints and answers, motions and objections, advised clients on bankruptcy issues related to business transactions and litigation, and appeared in bankruptcy courts in New York and other jurisdictions.

Ms. Grubin also advises clients on acquiring financially distressed companies, cross border insolvency issues and mass tort bankruptcy matters. In addition, she has broad experience structuring transactions to protect clients from future bankruptcies and litigation, including high net worth individuals, and advising clients on substantive consolidation and preference and fraudulent conveyance matters prior and subsequent to litigation. Most recently, Ms. Grubin obtained the dismissal with prejudice of a $10.5 million preference lawsuit in less than three months after service and advised a holding company of ultra-high end hotel properties in its wind-down.

Ms. Grubin has been involved in cases of national significance in a variety of debtor and creditor representations, including Chemtua Corporation, Delphi Corp., Quebecor World (USA), Inc., Dan River Holdings, LLC, Fortunoff's, Enron Corp., The Singer Company N.V., Keene Corporation, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, Zale's, R.H. Macy's & Co., Inc., Merry-Go-Round Enterprises and Adelphia Communications Corporation, among others.

Ms. Grubin has also been appointed as chapter 11 trustee and examiner in several notable cases pending in the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Her work has included:

• As Chapter 11 trustee, operating 23 Dunkin' Donuts stores and a bakery in the New York metropolitan area while conducting six asset sales generating $21 million over 3 years, commencing avoidance, insider and purchaser litigation, negotiating and securing Bankruptcy Court approval of 33 settlements, and obtaining a $9 million judgment against a proposed buyer, after a trial on liability and extensive damage proceedings, recently affirmed by the District Court. In re Food Management Group, LLC, et al., 359 B.R. 543 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2007), aff'd, 2010 WL 3911482 (Sept. 21, 2010, S.D.N.Y.) (appeal pending); 372 B.R. 171 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2007); 380 B.R. 677 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2008).
• As Chapter 11 trustee, managing, rehabilitating and marketing 3 rent-stabilized apartment buildings in Brooklyn, New York which led to a private sale netting an aggregate price 20% in excess of appraised values and a 100% payout to unsecured creditors under a confirmed liquidating plan. In re Sudano Corp., et al., 391 B.R. 678 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 2008).

Ms. Grubin is the former co-chair of the ABI's Mass Torts Task Force and a former member of the Advisory Group on Gender and Bankruptcy Law to the Working Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.

Ms. Grubin served as the law clerk to the Honorable Stephen D. Gerling from 1987 to 1989. In the Spring of 2010, she served as a member of the Independent Screening Panel for the New York Democratic Committee in relation to 6 Civil Court judicial openings.

Education

• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D. 1987
• Reed College, B.A. 1979

Admissions

• New York
• Connecticut
• U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York
• U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Memberships

• American Bar Association (Business Law Section)
• American Bankruptcy Institute (Ethics and Real Estate Sections)
• International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
• Turnaround Management Association
• New York State Bar Association (Business Law Section, Vice-Chair Bankruptcy Law Committee)
• The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Association of Greater New York (Partners Group)

Publications

• Intellectual Property Licenses Under U.S. Bankruptcy Law, Lawyers Associated
  Worldwide Newsletter, June, 2010, Volume 4, No.5
• Ninety Days – The Non-Insider Clawback Period Or The Time It Took TNSJ To
  Obtain Dismissal With Prejudice Of $10.5 Million Bankruptcy Preference Action,
  Lawyers Associated Worldwide Newsletter, October, 2010, Volume 4, No. 6
• Non-Dischargeability Complaints, Reaffirmation Agreements and Small Business
  Issues, New York State Bar Association Program for Consumers and Small
  Business in Distress, May 28, 2009
• Disclosures and Conflicts in the Context of Sec. 363 Sales, American Bankruptcy
  Institute/Winter Leadership Conference, December 5, 2008
• Practical Pointers from Noteworthy Cases, New York State Bar Association,
  Business Law Section, Bankruptcy Law Committee, January 15, 2005

Speaking Engagements

• Representing Creditors in Consumer and Small Business Cases, New York State
  Bar Association, New York, New York - May 28, 2009
• The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very, Ugly: Pitfalls of Improper or Incomplete
  Disclosure by "Professionals", Sixth Annual Conference on Corporate
  Reorganization, Ram/Beard Group, Tucson, Arizona - December 5, 2008
  251091v2 4
• The Bankruptcy Abuse Protection and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, New
  York State Bar Association, New York, New York - October 17, 2005
• Substantive Consolidation, American Bankruptcy Institute, Chicago, Illinois –
  June 20, 2003
• Litigating in the New York U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, New York State Bar
  Association, New York, New York – December 2, 1998

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