Michael ("Mickey") S. Etkin is a senior bankruptcy practitioner and commercial litigator with significant experience in complex business reorganizations and litigation as well as securities and ERISA class action litigation. Mickey graduated from Boston University, cum laude, in 1975, and received his law degree, with honors, from St. John's University in 1978. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey. Mickey is listed in the 2012 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, which has noted his "'constructive approach to adversarial matters' and skill in 'anticipating all the key issues that are likely to arise.'" In addition, he is also featured in the 2006-2013 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and the 2005-2011 issues of Super Lawyers in the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights section of the publication.

Mickey practices in Lowenstein Sandler's Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors’ Rights and its Complex Business Litigation groups. Mickey's bankruptcy practice includes the representation of debtors, trustees, creditors and investors in a variety of complex bankruptcies and bankruptcy related litigation. On the creditor/investor side, Mickey has had significant involvement in many of the largest and most complex Chapter 11 proceedings where he represented the interests of major creditors, bondholders and/or shareholders. Mickey is currently representing shareholder and investor interests in the Residential Capital, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Overseas Shipholding Group, Penson Worldwide, Nortel, Tribune, Sino Forest, Advanta and Point Blank Solutions Chapter 11 or Chapter 15 proceedings. He is a recognized national expert in the representation of defrauded investors and class action claimants in bankruptcy proceedings and has lectured on the rights of securities fraud claimants and class action plaintiffs in a Chapter 11 context. Mickey has also lectured on the interplay between bankruptcy law and product liability litigation.

Mickey also represents major energy companies in connection with bankruptcy proceedings involving their customers and counterparties. He has been invited to speak before financial institutions, bar association groups and credit associations regarding the rights of counterparties to derivatives in a bankruptcy context, including cutting edge issues emerging from the Lehman Brothers Chapter 11 and SIPC proceedings.

Mickey has represented both debtors and purchasers in acquisitions of assets of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy estates. He has been retained as creditors' committee counsel in the Chapter 11 proceedings of retailers, telecommunications companies, and manufacturers and as special counsel on behalf of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 trustees to prosecute fraud and similar claims. He has also been retained as debtors’ counsel in the Chapter 11 proceedings of several industrial manufacturers and contractors, a major book publisher, a California shopping center, a software manufacturer, a converter, marketer and distributor of paper products and a discount retail store chain and has represented plan proponents in pre-packaged Chapter 11 proceedings.