Lawrence Handelsman is co-chair of Stroock’s Financial Restructuring Practice. Mr. Handelsman is, or has been, lead counsel to creditors’ committees in many of the largest and most complex Chapter 11 cases in U.S. history, including Acme Metals, AEI Resources, Barney’s Inc., Bayou Steel, Best Products, Federated Department Stores, Gulf States Steel, Laclede Steel, The LTV Corporation, Metallurg, Orion Pictures, Pathnet, Inc., Republic Technologies, WestPoint Stevens and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. He is, or has been, lead debtor’s counsel to AMF Bowling, Inc., The Brooklyn Hospital Medical Center, Coleco Industries, Continental Energy Associates, Energy Management Corporation, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, JWP, Inc., New York United Hospital Medical Center, Prudential Lines, Recoton Corp., Seatrain Lines, Skyland International (Buster Brown apparel), Tomlinson Oil Co. and Union Hospital. In addition, he often represents those who have made investments in or acquired assets from troubled companies, both outside and within Chapter 11 proceedings, including Delta Air Lines in its acquisitions of major assets of Eastern Air Lines and Pan American World Airways, and Midcoast Industries in its acquisition of Georgetown Steel Corp.

Mr. Handelsman is listed in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers. He lectures widely before corporate, professional and continuing legal education audiences on bankruptcy topics.

Memberships

Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy; Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Business Bankruptcy Committee, American Bar Association; Director, New York Chapter, Turnaround Management Association

Admitted to Practice

Florida; New York, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Education

J.D., cum laude, New York University School of Law, 1968

B.A., City College of the City University of New York, 1965