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Bankruptcy & Creditors Rights Of Counsel - Chapter 11 & Restructuring

$280k - $310k

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Job Description

Job Description

Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Of Counsel | Chapter 11 & Restructuring

Newark, New Jersey | $280,000–$310,000/year

This role centers on sophisticated Chapter 11 matters, where your work will shape restructuring strategies, creditor rights, and outcomes for clients navigating complex financial distress. You’ll represent a broad range of stakeholders while taking meaningful responsibility for high-value bankruptcy, restructuring, and related litigation matters.

The opportunity offers sophisticated legal work, collaboration with attorneys across multiple practice areas, and the ability to build deeper responsibility within an established legal team.

What You’ll Get
• Sophisticated Chapter 11 and restructuring matters
• High-value client work across varied stakeholder groups
• Collaboration across corporate, banking, litigation, real estate, and tax practices
• Meaningful responsibility on complex bankruptcy matters
• Strong platform for long-term professional growth

What You’ll Do
• Represent debtors, creditors, committees, trustees, lenders, equity holders, and purchasers of distressed assets in Chapter 11 cases, restructurings, and related litigation.
• Advise on workouts, out-of-court restructurings, distressed transactions, UCC enforcement, creditor remedies, DIP financing, cash collateral, preferences, and fraudulent transfer actions.
• Counsel companies, financial institutions, boards, and fiduciaries on restructuring strategies and distressed situations.
• Work with attorneys across multiple practice areas to develop comprehensive client solutions.

What You’ll Need
• 10+ years of significant experience in complex bankruptcy, restructuring, insolvency, and creditors’ rights matters.
• Deep, hands-on Chapter 11 experience.
• Substantial experience handling sophisticated Chapter 11 proceedings, contested matters, restructuring strategies, and related litigation.
• Experience representing a broad range of stakeholders in bankruptcy, restructuring, workouts, and insolvency matters.
• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• New Jersey Bar admission.
• New York Bar admission, or eligibility and willingness to obtain admission within one year of starting.

Vacancy posted 10 days ago
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