Michael (Mickey) Etkin Email & Phone Number

Mickey is a senior bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practitioner/commercial litigator with significant experience in complex business reorganizations and litigation as well as investor-related litigation and the interplay between these disciplines. Mickey’s work in the context of class action and investor litigation and related high-profile bankruptcy proceedings has resulted in investors recovering billions of dollars. He also represents major energy companies in connection with their claims and exposure as well as issues relating to the status of their contractual relationships with their customers and counterparties in a bankruptcy context.Mickey currently represents institutional investors in many significant complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 15 proceedings, such as SVB Financial Group, Genesis Global Holdco, LLC, FirstEnergy Corp., View, Inc., BlockFi, SmileDirectClub, Lordstown Motors, Celsius Network, Pacific Gas & Electric, Windstream, and McDermott International, among others. He represents important consumer interests in bankruptcy cases involving issues of privacy, product liability, and lending practices.He represents both debtors and purchasers in acquisitions of assets of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy estates, and has served as special counsel on behalf of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 trustees to prosecute fraud and similar claims.He also serves as creditors' committee counsel in the Chapter 11 proceedings of retailers, chemical companies, telecommunications companies, and manufacturers.Lecture topics include: Rights of securities fraud claimants and class action plaintiffs in a Chapter 11 contextInterplay between bankruptcy law and product liability litigationCross-border insolvency proceedingsRights of energy companies with respect to their financially distressed counterpartiesRights of non-defaulting counterparties to derivative contracts in a bankruptcy contextWarning signs relating to financially troubled counterpartiesThe art of negotiationAttorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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  Partner

  Lowenstein Sandler Llp

  Jan 2000 - Present - One Lowenstein Drive, Roseland, New Jersey 07006

  Practice focused on complex business reorganizations, investor litigation in a bankruptcy context, and high-stakes Chapter 11 issues. Clients include debtors, trustees, creditors, institutional investors, individual investors, state, local, and union employee pension and benefit funds, investment managers, among others.