Edward L. Schnitzer is chair of Montgomery McCracken's Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Department and serves as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy and reorganization matters. He has experience representing unsecured creditor committees, litigation and liquidation trustees, debtors, banks, equity committees, and creditors in all aspects of bankruptcy practice, with particular focus on bankruptcy litigation, including the prosecution and defense of preferences, fraudulent transfers, and other avoidance actions, claims objections, and collection and turnover actions.
Ed is a court-approved mediator in the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Delaware and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has mediated disputes in the Health Diagnostic, Standard Register, Borders, and WP Steel bankruptcy cases. Ed is also a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Pro Bono Bankruptcy Panel and has represented individuals in need of pro bono assistance in adversary proceedings.
Upon graduation from law school, Ed served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx where he briefed and argued appeals before the Appellate Division, New York Court of Appeals, Southern District of New York, and Second Circuit, as well as tried several cases and assisted with the prosecution of a first degree murder trial. He then joined the Enforcement Division of the Securities & Exchange Commission where he investigated violations of the Federal Securities Laws. Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Ed served as chair of an international law firm’s bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group.
Ed graduated undergrad from the University of Pennsylvania with cum laude honors and received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law. Ed received a Certificate of Completion, Inaugural Bankruptcy Mediation Class from John’s University of Law and the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution.
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What Happens When Co-Defendants Hold Divergent Interests?
By Leslie Berkoff and Edward Schnitzer This article addresses some of the issues that can arise when parties at a mediation are codefendants but are not fully aligned because some […]
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Sometimes a Post-Petition Attorneys’ Fee Award Is Just a Valueless Post-Petition Claim
To qualify for an administrative-expense claim under § 503(b)(1)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, a movant must establish that the expense arose from a transaction with the estate, and that such […]
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Finding a Silver Lining for Factors in the Abeinsa Bankruptcy Case
In an article from last December, I discussed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in the Abeinsa Holding Inc. bankruptcy.1 In that case, the Third Circuit sustained a claim […]
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Bankruptcy Judge in Eastern District of New York Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Five Defendants Represented by Montgomery McCracken
Montgomery McCracken attorneys Edward Schnitzer and Joseph Samuel represented five preference defendants in adversary proceedings brought by the Litigation Administrator in the Décor Holding, Inc. bankruptcy pending in the Eastern […]
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