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Janice B. Grubin is a partner with experience in a wide range of bankruptcy and insolvency litigation and transactional matters in a variety of jurisdictions. Janice's practice focuses on the representation of debtors, creditors, trustees, examiners, receivers and official and unofficial committees in voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy proceedings and corporate restructurings. In connection with such representations, she has negotiated and drafted petitions, plans of reorganization, disclosure statements, workout agreements, complaints and answers, motions, objections and other similar documents; advised clients on bankruptcy issues related to business transactions and litigation; and appeared in bankruptcy courts in New York and other jurisdictions.
Janice also advises clients on acquiring financially distressed companies, cross border insolvency issues and mass tort bankruptcy matters. In addition, she has expertise 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.
Janice has been appointed as chapter 11 trustee and examiner in several notable cases pending in United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She was also involved in cases of national significance, including 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.
Janice 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.
Janice served as the law clerk to the Honorable Stephen D. Gerling, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York, from 1987-1989. | 