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Mr. Stark focuses his practice on complex corporate restructuring, including in-court Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. He has extensive experience representing official and unofficial creditor/equity committees, debtors/borrowers, institutional investors, indenture trustees, and other significant parties-in-interest in large corporate insolvency matters.
Mr. Stark’s case experience includes the representation of an official or significant ad-hoc creditor/equity committee in the restructuring of American Safety Razor, Evergreen International Aviation, Falcon Products, Fedders, Flying J/Big West Oil, Fruit of the Loom, Hayes Lemmerz International, Hawkeye Renewables, InSight Health Services, Le-Nature’s, Lionel Trains, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Motor Coach Industries, Newark Group, NV Broadcasting, Oakwood Homes Corporation, Oneida, Owens Corning, Refco Capital Markets, Riverstone Networks, Spansion, Tropicana Entertainment, Visteon, Washington Mutual and York Research. Recent large debtor/borrower engagements include Keys Resort Investors and Wells Dairy (Blue Bunny Ice Cream), as well as the principal owner of Centrix Financial. He has also represented major creditor interests in the restructuring of C-BASS, Collins & Aikman, Delphi Corporation, Investment Properties of America, SIRVA/North American Van Lines, and Tribune Company. In addition, he has represented post-consummation liquidating trusts in the Chapter 11 cases of Bethlehem Steel, Bricolage Capital, Geneva Steel, Hayes Lemmerz International, Le-Nature's and Oakwood Homes Corporation.
Mr. Stark was recognized in the 2009 and 2010 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, wherein he was described as "an aggressive and persuasive lawyer who knows bankruptcy law inside-out." In a 2010 BusinessWeek profile, he was described by opposing counsel as a litigation "serial killer" but also "bottom-line and commercial oriented." For an unprecendented five consecutive years (2006-2010), he was one of 12 attorneys nationwide named to the annual list of "Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers," published by Turnarounds & Workouts. For four consecutive years (2007-2010), he was named in New York Times Magazine as a leading attorney practicing in the field of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights. In 2009, he was appointed to the New York City Bar Association’s Select Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization.
Mr. Stark has also published extensively on bankruptcy and restructuring topics, including a chapter in the second edition of the treatise Bankruptcy Business Acquisitions, as well as articles appearing in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Bankruptcy Strategist, California Bankruptcy Journal, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Journal of Corporate Renewal, Journal of Corporation Law, Norton Bankruptcy Law Journal, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law and the Real Estate Finance Journal. He has also delivered papers and been an invited speaker at numerous restructuring seminars (both domestic and abroad), including programs sponsored by Columbia Business School, the University of Texas School of Law and the New York City Bar Association.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
• Admitted, States of New York and New Jersey
• Admitted, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey
• Admitted, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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