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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 Borders Group, Inc., SP Newsprint Holdings, LLC, Chef Solutions Holdings, LLC, 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.
Speaking Engagements:
- "Preference Defenses: New Value, Ordinary Course and Contemporaneous Exchange," Strafford Live Phone/Web Seminar, December 14, 2011
- "Bankruptcy Preferences," Lowenstein Sandler University, 2011
- "Prosecuting and Defending Preference Claims," Lowenstein Sandler University, 2008
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David Banker is quoted in connection with a report on the SP Newsprint unsecured creditors committee's victory in obtaining bankruptcy court approval to investigate over $30 million in management fees paid to Brant Industries, run by wealthy industrialist, businessman and entrepreneur, Peter Brant.,
Debtwire, April 9, 2012
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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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