Joseph

Joe Orbach represents clients in all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency law. He has significant experience representing creditors’ committees in a wide range of industries, including mortgage origination/servicing, retail, technology, and hospitality. He also represents secured and unsecured creditors, debtors and trustees in corporate reorganizations, restructurings and liquidations, and has prosecuted/defended cases in jurisdictions across the country.

Over the course of his career, Joe has analyzed and prosecuted hundreds of preferences and fraudulent transfers adversary proceedings for liquidating trustees and defended dozens of preference actions. Companies seek his counsel on distressed asset investments, sales and initial and secondary capital offerings.

Joe deftly sizes up difficult situations to assess his client’s leverage, as well as the optimal potential and pressure points to get recovery, before identifying and implementing solutions that create the highest possible return. In addition to problem-solving, Joe particularly enjoys sending distribution checks out to those creditors who likely assumed they would never recover on their claims, but on whose behalf he often works when representing post-confirmation trusts.

Joe has also developed a strong niche representing both debtors and creditors in Subchapter V bankruptcies, created to streamline the bankruptcy process for small businesses. After he wrote an article identifying a problem in the original version of the law, it was modified by Congress to adopt his recommended language.

Joe is an American Bankruptcy Institute certified bankruptcy mediator and is a member of the Mediation Panel of the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts of the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.