Our Attorneys

Contact Information
425 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: 1-212-754-9400
Fax: 1-212-754-6262
Email: jgrubin@tnsj-law.com

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 bankruptcy and insolvency litigation and transactional matters in a variety of jurisdictions. Ms. Grubin’s 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, Ms. Grubin has broad experience structuring transactions to protect clients from future bankruptcies and litigation, and advising clients on substantive consolidation and preference and fraudulent conveyance matters prior and subsequent to litigation.

Ms. Grubin has been involved in cases of national significance in a variety of debtor and creditor representations, including 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. Ms. Grubin’s work has included:

As Chapter 11 trustee in the Food Management Group cases, operating 23 Dunkin’ Donuts stores and a bakery in the New York metropolitan area during liquidation generating $21 Million through six asset sales; handling avoidance, insider and purchaser litigation; and negotiating and securing Court approval of 33 settlements. Food Management Group, LLC, et al., 359 B.R. 543 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2007); 372 B.R. 171 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2007); 380 B.R. 677 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2008); and
As Chapter 11 trustee in the Sudano cases, managing and rehabilitating three rent-stabilized apartment buildings in Brooklyn, New York leading to a private sale which netted an aggregate price of 20 percent in excess of appraised values and a 100 percent payout to unsecured creditors under a confirmed liquidating plan. Sudano Corp., et al., 391 B.R. 678 (Bankr. E.D.N.Y. 2008).

Admissions

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

Education

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

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)

Publications

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,

Speaking Engagements

Representing Creditors in Consumer and Small Business Cases, New York, New York - May 28, 2009
The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very, Ugly: Pitfalls of Improper or Incomplete Disclosure by “Professionals”, Tucson, Arizona - December 5, 2008
The Bankruptcy Abuse Protection and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, New York, New York - October 17, 2005
Substantive Consolidation, Chicago, Illinois – June 20, 2003
Litigating in the New York U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, New York, New York – December 2, 1998