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David M. Banker is Counsel to the firm’s Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors’ Rights Group. Mr. Banker’s practice focuses on creditors’ rights in the context of complex bankruptcies, including representing trade creditors, secured lenders, creditors’ committees, plan trustees and lessors. His unsecured creditors’ committee representations include Advanced Marketing Services, Inc., Koen Books Distributors, Inc., and Skip’s Cutting, Inc. Mr. Banker has extensive experience defending preference and fraudulent conveyance actions in numerous jurisdictions throughout the country. His practice includes pursuit of reclamation and administrative priority claims, negotiation of the sale of claims, and defending claim objections. He represents the interests of secured creditors in matters including automatic stay litigation, adequate protection issues, cash collateral, and debtor-in-possession financing. Mr. Banker also has extensive experience representing lessors in connection with negotiating the terms of the assumption and cure of leases, adequate protection orders, and claims related to lease rejection.
Mr. Banker co-authored supplemental materials for the American Bankruptcy Institute Legislative Symposium: "Chapter 11 at the Crossroads: Does Reorganization Need Reform? A Symposium on the Past, Present and Future of U.S. Corporate Restructuring," titled "New Administrative Expenses, Shortened Time Periods and Other BAPCPA Changes: Should BAPCPA Be Rolled Back?" held at Georgetown University Law Center, November 16-17, 2009.
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BAPCPA Rollback As A Cure For Unsuccessful Reorganizations? Not So Fast!
Supplementak Materials - American Bankruptcy Legislative Symposium, November 16, 2009
David Banker
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Scott Cargill and David Banker comment on the increase in Chapter 11 filings and failures to reorganize during the recession.,
Floor Covering Weekly, January 25, 2010
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New York Law School
(J.D., 2000),
cum laude
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George Washington University
(B.A., 1997),
magna cum laude
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New Jersey
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New York
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2000,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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2002,
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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2002,
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Editor, "Second Circuit Case Update”
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